Crossword-Solution: ANGUIS 6 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

For, though she at first professed that she assumed this disguise in order to countenance the woman who should present us with the Lady Hermione's petition, for whom she professed entire affection; yet when we, suspecting _anguis in herba_, did put her to the very question, she was compelled to own a virtuous attachment for Glenvarlochides, in such a pretty passion of shame and fear, that we had much ado to keep our own eyes from keeping company with hers in weeping.

The series of reptiles, for instance, in the family of lizards, shows apodal forms, forms with rudimentary feet, then with a successively larger number of fingers until we reach, by seemingly insensible gradations, the genera Anguis, Ophisaurus, and Pseudopus, the Chamosauria, Chirotes, Bipes, Sepo, Scincus, and at last the true lizards.

The Slow-worm (_Anguis fragilis_) is limbless, and so are the members of the sub-class Apoda among the Amphibia.

MONSTRA evenerunt mihi: Introit in aedes ater alienus canis, Anguis per impluvium decidit de tegulis, Gallina cecinit!*--TERENCE.

But after all, _latet anguis in herba_, there's a _Snake_ in the Grass; Luxury, and Excess in our most innocent Fruitions.