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Few of the individual meadow wild flower species are rare although you may sometimes find scarcer ones like butterfly orchids and adder's tongue fern but this is a case of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts – inescapably, a living tapestry of floral colours.

Make hay meadow photos while the sun shines | Phil Gates 2011

Her kiss was like an adder's fang, with the sweetness Lilith had,

Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010

Leibolmai's best joke is a hunters' joke: the owl's silent laugh at a fear-frozen shrew; the humor in the adder's perfect strike; the funny, funny blizzard that buries you in your house while the wolves howl just outside.

My characters have such nice gods (warning: first-draft prose). shweta_narayan 2008

A 69-year-old widowed English aristocrat with a tongue as tart as an adder's and a contempt for the stuffy propriety of '30s London that's facilitated by her sense of noblesse oblige, Laura Henderson (Judi Dench) is based on a real woman.

Judi, Judi, Judi! The Divine Ms. D Delivers. 2007

During migration, dozens of varieties of birds passed through those woods - which at this time of year would be filled with spring beauties and adder's tongues and, of course, may apples.

A bit of local lore ... Frank Wilson 2007

She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France, Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth!

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

His eyes, quick as an adder's tongue, flicked to Margarite's face.

Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

Its voice was a red adder's dry hiss, warning of death.

The Shadow Rising Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1992

His tongue came out and I shuddered powerfully, the breath escaping from me like an adder's hiss.

Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992

Vapour curling like an adder's tongue, hiding in its midst secrets too horrifying to endure.

The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990