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  • At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

    Proverbs 23. 1999

  • Daring as the rays of a southern sun, that not only nourishes into form and sweetness the orange and the rose, but begets, likewise, the tarantula and the serpent that stingeth unto death, was the nature that animated her beautiful body.

    A Daughter of Lilith and a Daughter of Eve 1995

  • Daring as the rays of a southern sun, that not only nourishes into form and sweetness the orange and the rose, but begets, likewise, the tarantula and the serpent that stingeth unto death, was the nature that animated her beautiful body.

    A Daughter of Lilith and a Daughter of Eve 1995

  • "Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder."

    Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society

  • O, who that regards his neighbor, his family, his own reputation, or his own soul, will in this day of light be found dallying with that which affords at best only _sensual_ pleasure, and which _at the last biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder_?

    Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society

  • The wise man of Scripture knew what he was about when he said, "Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup; at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder."

    Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society

  • If our children see the wine-glass on the home table, in the side-board, at our evening parties, will they not think wine-drinking right and safe, and will there be any fear in their hearts of that which at the last stingeth like a serpent and biteth like an adder?

    Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada Addie Chisholm

  • Such are the rewards which sin gives to its votaries; full of soft words and tempting promises in the beginning, they find, in the end, that "it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder."

    The Runaway The Adventures of Rodney Roverton Unknown

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