“She greatly knew the viperine tongue of those elegant ladies, their fastidious counterpoints, their disregard.”
“Here, among a number of viperine snakes of about the same size, is a snake that lives on eggs.”
“But most recent movie lawyers — think of all the Turow and Grisham corporate lackeys, with their viperine love interests — are slick and square-jawed, and, before a jury, petulant and slightly hysterical.”