During the last year of his life he read Fer-de-Lance.

The name fer-de-lance is not used in the countries inhabited by this species.

The fer-de-lance, a kind of pit viper, is usually five or six feet long.

The fer-de-lance can feel the approach of warm-blooded prey without seeing it.

When chased by a fer-de-lance you are advised to run very fast and drop your backpack.

The average time of death from the bite of a fer-de-lance is twenty minutes.

The girl's sigh was drowned by the approaching hiss of the fer-de-lance.

By the time he looked around, Fer-de-lance had somehow steered the viper back into its container.

Suppose Fer-de-lance were to throw in with them?

"But why a fer-de-lance in the first place?

With its coils writhing about his arm, he swung the fer-de-lance toward Marcia.

Although Fer-de-lance is of the opinion that you two may have mistranslated our witchman's name."

"Willy was bitten by a fer-de-lance, one of the deadliest snakes in the world."

On another trip, a snake, a fer-de-lance, was neither so benign or so lucky.

The Fer-de-lance can be found on farms and will go into houses or barns in search of small rodents to eat.

At that point a figure ascended the wobbly ladder, and Fer-de-lance climbed onto the platform.

Fer-de-Lance is French for spearhead, literally iron of the lance.

In addition to the five tireless Indians who would lead and escort him, he was accompanied by Fer-de-lance.

"The tongue of the fer-de-lance gives death as quick as any knife-thrust.

Though slight, the sound was ominous; as fearful as the hiss of a fer-de-lance.

They easily spotted a fer-de-lance by a fallen tree trunk and avoided the poisonous serpent.

He had almost placed his hand on a fer-de-lance, one of the most poisonous snakes of the Yucatan jungle!

Fer-de-Lance was trained in battle with razor-edged claws that retract from her gloves and boots.

Fer-de-Lance, pressing her retractable razors into a computer, suffered an electric shock and was defeated.

"Near as I can tell, except maybe for a noninfluential outsider named Fer-de-lance, he has no rivals.