| 单词 | whip-snake |
| 例句 | "You live in a pretty lonesome spot here, and as the man said to the whip-snake in the spout, 'You ain't easy to get at.'" Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z Volstruis spread out his beautiful wings and swayed from side to side, his beak open and his neck twisting like a whip-snake. Outa Karel's Stories South African Folk-Lore Tales 2011-03-14T03:01:04.340Z Another snake of the same length is a handsome green whip-snake, graceful in its movements, but ferocious and aggressive in its habits, although quite harmless. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Of the venomous species, there are the golden snake, the whip-snake, and the tamagas—the bite of which is considered deadly. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The real shrew is like the puff-adder or the whip-snake—she tries to bite impartially all round; and she is often able to bite in comparative silence, but with a most deadly effect. Side Lights There is something frightful in the disposition of certain ophidians, as the whip-snake, which darts at the eyes of cattle without any apparent provocation or other motive. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 We waded stream after stream under the bamboo clumps, and in one of them we saw swimming a green rigoise, or whip-snake, which must have been nearly ten feet long. At Last To Friedrich Wilhelm's enchanted sense it seems a bird-of-paradise, trustfully perching there; but it is of the whip-snake kind, or a worse; and will stick to him tragically, if also comically, for years to come. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 |
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