| She flew straight to the abode of the bold prince Turnus. Allecto changed her appearance, and took on the face of an old woman with a viperine tongue, and told him everything that was happening inside the palace of the King. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
