Cleopatra was caused by the death of an asp which she dissolved in a wine cup. |
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. |
Have we, as a Nation, in our liberality, clasped an asp to our collective bosom. |
Thus animals could be seen as the embodiments of evil, like the asp of Macarius of Alexandria. |
So, all in all, it baffles me that more British anglers don't hunt out asp specifically when they're travelling abroad. |