The two men had just ridden into the quaking Asps when a man coming out of the Gap almost rode into them.
"Nan of Music Mountain"
Frank H. Spearman
So much for the snakes, Asps, adders, basilisks, cockatrices, and fiery flying serpents of The Desert!
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson
But the people of Seleucia had reason to commend the wisdom of Aesop's fable of the wallet, seeing their general Surena carrying a bag full of loose Milesian stories before him, but keeping behind him a whole Parthian Sybaris in his many wagons full of concubines; like the vipers and Asps people talk of, all the foremost and more visible parts fierce and terrible with spears and arrows and horsemen, but the rear terminating in loose women and castanets, music of the lute, and midnight revellings.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh