If the less perfect ophidians, or snakes, which now abound on the earth had taken the lead in those ancient days among the land reptiles, and the Deinosaurians had been contemporary with Man, there can be no doubt that the progressionist would have seized upon this fact with unfeigned satisfaction as confirmatory of his views.
"The Antiquity of Man"
Charles Lyell
They never winked, for ophidians have no movable eyelids, but kept up an awful fixed stare.
"Nature's Serial Story"
E. P. Roe
Then there are the ophidians, the Jews, the Greeks, the Armenians....
"Cæsar or Nothing"
PÃÂÂo Baroja Baroja