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noun aspæsp 1A small southern European viper with an upturned snout. Vipera aspis, family Viperidae Example sentencesExamples - Have we, as a Nation, in our liberality, clasped an asp to our collective bosom.
- But, he mused: ‘I feel that I may be taking an asp to my bosom.’
- Overseas they have a mixture of cobras, vipers, asps and snake types that we don't have here, that produce quite different effects.
- Soon after Shirley Temple committed suicide by stinging herself with an asp's venom and her sadness was mirrored by thousands across the world.
- If you were rotten, you might be a vole or an asp or a dung beetle.
- Stretched out seductively on her cushion at Wolf's right elbow, she resembled an asp in greenery.
- Thus animals could be seen as the embodiments of evil, like the asp of Macarius of Alexandria.
- You try not to be seen, yet you snap out unexpectedly like a hidden asp.
- The story of the asp, and of the suicide note, not only proclaimed Octavian's innocence: it gilded him with honour.
- Surely the worst asps in this world are the ones one has clasped to the bosom.
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another term for Egyptian cobra Example sentencesExamples - You would think after Eve's shenanigans in the Garden of Eden and Cleopatra's mishap with her asp, we would have learned by now.
- Cleopatra, fallen into Caesar's power but determined not to grace his triumph, takes her own life by the bite of an asp.
- In his play Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra is delivered a basket of figs containing an asp, the venomous snake that ultimately causes her death.
- She would not live this way, so history says she had an asp, which was an Egyptian cobra, brought to her hidden in a basket of figs.
- ‘He had a heart of gold, but he also had a tongue as sharp as a Gillette razor and a bite every bit as venomous as the asp that bit Cleopatra,’ he said.
- In the basket is an asp, a very poisonous snake which kills painlessly.
- Tragedy and romance have never been so irresistibly entwined: the beautiful young queen, maddened by grief, hastening to join her dead lover, Mark Antony, through the kiss of an asp.
- Antony committed suicide while Cleopatra took the asp.
- A clown enters her chamber before she is to be taken away by Caesar, bringing a basket of figs in which there is a poisonous asp which Cleopatra uses to kill herself.
- The Egyptian queen clutches the asp with a frightening tenacity, while the naked object of Zeus's golden shower grasps the coins from Olympus as one who fully understands the terms of the consummation being visited upon her.
- This doesn't sound too appetizing to Cleo, and she has an asp - a rather poisonous snake - brought to her hidden in a basket of figs.
- A rustic, who engages the Queen in quibbling banter, brings asps concealed in a basket of figs.
2A large predatory Eurasian freshwater fish of the carp family. Aspius aspius, family Cyprinidae Example sentencesExamples - Fish like the asp are gems waiting to be uncovered.
- There are problems with using ‘outsize’ baits and our 2-4 lb asp and zander, meant that we had to adapt our rigs to get a good hook presentation.
- Added to this were exotic creatures such as ide, and asp, and armfuls of vast trout from Vättern.
- Dawn in my opinion is the prime asp feeding period.
- Zander and Volga zander were also taken on lures, although they inhabited different areas and unlike the asp, were almost always caught close to the bottom of the river.
Origin Middle English: from Latin aspis, from Greek. abbreviation Application service provider, a company providing Internet access to software applications that would otherwise have to be installed on individual computers.
nounaspæsp 1A small southern European viper with an upturned snout. Vipera aspis, family Viperidae Example sentencesExamples - Surely the worst asps in this world are the ones one has clasped to the bosom.
- The story of the asp, and of the suicide note, not only proclaimed Octavian's innocence: it gilded him with honour.
- Have we, as a Nation, in our liberality, clasped an asp to our collective bosom.
- Stretched out seductively on her cushion at Wolf's right elbow, she resembled an asp in greenery.
- Overseas they have a mixture of cobras, vipers, asps and snake types that we don't have here, that produce quite different effects.
- If you were rotten, you might be a vole or an asp or a dung beetle.
- But, he mused: ‘I feel that I may be taking an asp to my bosom.’
- Thus animals could be seen as the embodiments of evil, like the asp of Macarius of Alexandria.
- Soon after Shirley Temple committed suicide by stinging herself with an asp's venom and her sadness was mirrored by thousands across the world.
- You try not to be seen, yet you snap out unexpectedly like a hidden asp.
- 1.1
another term for Egyptian cobra Example sentencesExamples - Antony committed suicide while Cleopatra took the asp.
- This doesn't sound too appetizing to Cleo, and she has an asp - a rather poisonous snake - brought to her hidden in a basket of figs.
- ‘He had a heart of gold, but he also had a tongue as sharp as a Gillette razor and a bite every bit as venomous as the asp that bit Cleopatra,’ he said.
- In the basket is an asp, a very poisonous snake which kills painlessly.
- A rustic, who engages the Queen in quibbling banter, brings asps concealed in a basket of figs.
- The Egyptian queen clutches the asp with a frightening tenacity, while the naked object of Zeus's golden shower grasps the coins from Olympus as one who fully understands the terms of the consummation being visited upon her.
- Cleopatra, fallen into Caesar's power but determined not to grace his triumph, takes her own life by the bite of an asp.
- Tragedy and romance have never been so irresistibly entwined: the beautiful young queen, maddened by grief, hastening to join her dead lover, Mark Antony, through the kiss of an asp.
- In his play Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra is delivered a basket of figs containing an asp, the venomous snake that ultimately causes her death.
- She would not live this way, so history says she had an asp, which was an Egyptian cobra, brought to her hidden in a basket of figs.
- You would think after Eve's shenanigans in the Garden of Eden and Cleopatra's mishap with her asp, we would have learned by now.
- A clown enters her chamber before she is to be taken away by Caesar, bringing a basket of figs in which there is a poisonous asp which Cleopatra uses to kill herself.
Origin Middle English: from Latin aspis, from Greek. abbreviation Application service provider, a company providing Internet access to software applications that would otherwise have to be installed on individual computers.
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