sand-viper

Then she will go and tell the old sand-viper, her mother, who will whisper it to Tyope himself.

The Delight Makers Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier 1877

Now, your mother is afraid lest through Mitsha's mother, first Mitsha, afterward through her you, might become entangled in the coils of that sand-viper

The Delight Makers Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier 1877

"How could I speak to one whose mother is a sand-viper, and whose father a carrion crow?"

The Delight Makers Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier 1877

"Have you forgotten already what I told you of Tyope and of that old sand-viper, the Naua?"

The Delight Makers Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier 1877