Very much enamored was he of most of nature's products, but not at all of the family ophidia.
"A Man and a Woman"
Stanley Waterloo
Oiketicus, 430. Oil-bird, 269. ophidia, 321. Ortelius, 68. Orthoptera, 408. Ouanderoo.
"Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon"
J. Emerson Tennent
Or, if we go back to the older half of the Mesozoic epoch, how truly surprising it is to find every order of the Reptilia, except the ophidia, represented; while some groups, such as the Ornithoscelida and the Pterosauria, more specialized than any which now exist, abounded.
"Critiques and Addresses"
Thomas Henry Huxley