blind-worm

The blind-worm Ignorance that slays the soul, O tarry yet!

Collected Poems 2003

He had a nose that was hooked like the beak of a vulture, and his right eye was an opaque jelly from the blind-worm that burrows deep into the eyeball of its victims.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

Nevertheless we have a blind-worm, to be found under logs, in woods and timber that hath lain long in a place, which some also do call (and upon better ground) by the name of slow-worms, and they are known easily by their more or less variety of striped colours, drawn long-ways from their heads, their whole bodies little exceeding a foot in length, and yet is their venom deadly.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

Then came the reptiles, -- from the boa constrictor, who was ten yards long, to the smallest blind-worm, amongst them some of the most dangerous kinds.

The Curly-Haired Hen Auguste Vimar

Up to the hour of condemnation, he remained reckless as the wind -- unrepenting as the flint -- venomous as the blind-worm.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 374, June 6, 1829 Various

And within the grave there is no pleasure, for the blind-worm battens on the root, 25

[Greek] 1881

The blind-worm Ignorance that slays the soul, O tarry yet!

The Garden of Eros 1881

God made the blind-worm and the mole, and each has its place.

A House of Pomegranates Oscar Wilde 1877

I looked where she indicated, and saw a slow-worm, or blind-worm, lying basking in the sun.

The Seaboard Parish, Complete George MacDonald 1864

The common English blind-worm breaks to pieces in a similar manner.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847