They did not like poisonous snakes so close to their families and children.

Actually the feeling was more like finding a poisonous snake in one's bed.

A good horse will step on a poisonous snake before a man knows the threat is present.

That is unless they just stepped on a poisonous snake.

Let the thing stay there, pinned like a poisonous snake!

Probably not a poisonous snake, though its head was flattened.

They would as soon, I suppose, have touched a poisonous snake.

I have seen the same thing happen when one has been bitten by a poisonous snake.

Even standing still, they were sleek, dark, and dangerous in the way of poisonous snakes.

You do have poisonous snakes in the state, I take it?