adder

Many wonderful U.K. shows belong on this list ( Black Adder, I, Claudius, and Prime Suspect, to name but a few).

He comes from the tribe of Dan, of which it is written: 'Dan shall be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path.'

Well, by and by an adder bit a knight's heel; the knight forgot all about the order, and made a slash at the adder with his sword.

Then he would suddenly turn back to Digby, but would find him poring over a book, and as dumb as an adder.

At the same moment I saw a beautiful green adder come from a cleft of the mountain and crawl along the sand toward the bird.

Adder drove me down, and stopped his coach at the inn, and rowed me the half-mile up.