As quick as …
Tarka the otter is hunted but fights ferociously and strategically. Here he bites back as hounds close in. He gives...
A dam snake
Infrastructure likened to a curling serpent, whereas most serpentine similes I've seen have been speed-related. See Tarka the Otter,...
Quick as …
Not an eye you would want settling its penetrating gaze on you, giving you a cold adder-quick assessment through the...
Like a broken viper
A wildly meandering river likened to a viper broken by a buzzard - Williamson's inventiveness is a wonder, and almost...
Cables like mating adders
Serpents coiling around each other is Seethaler's way of describing inch-thick twining cables stretched across swathes of sky.
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