poison-fangs

Viper or Adder, which has two poison-fangs, but is not ready to use them, unless it is trodden on, or otherwise provoked.

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

If these poison-fangs -- one on each side -- are taken out, the bite of the most dangerous serpents becomes harmless.

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

Of the serpents which are dreaded -- not for their bite, for they have no poison-fangs -- but for their great strength and daring, and for the way in which they coil round their victims, crushing them to death in their terrible embrace -- the most dangerous are the Python of the Old World, and the Boa-constrictor of the New.

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

Though you may admire the "spotted snakes" at a safe distance, in their cages, I know you will not be sorry to hear that in England we have but two kinds -- the Ringed or Grass snake, which has no poison-fangs, and is perfectly harmless, feeding upon the frogs which it finds in the marshy places which are its home, and upon mice and young birds; and the common

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

They would not eat anything, and were gradually pining away, when it was discovered that their poison-fangs had been extracted, and their mouths were sewn up with silk.

The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss

The Indian serpent-charmers of whom you have heard know this, and before they allow themselves to be bitten by the deadly cobras, with which they are so fond of playing their feats of jugglery, are careful to extract their sharp poison-fangs.

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

Against this attack, claws, teeth, poison-fangs would be idle weapons.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

The best authorities give an infallible recipe for distinguishing them by the pattern of the colors, but this particular specimen, although it corresponded exactly in color pattern with the description of the poisonous snakes, nevertheless had no poison-fangs that even after the most minute examination we could discover.

VII. With a Mule Train Across Nhambiquara Land 1914

Then it gathered itself in half-coil; that is, doubling up the posterior two-thirds of its body, the part nearest the head was drawn back in an S-shape, and the open mouth, with the large poison-fangs in view, was shot toward me very rapidly four or five

With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

They rely for attack and defence purely on their poison-fangs.

I. The Start 1914