"Blacksnake" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a sharp hiss, a very fierce hiss. Johnny Chuck felt the hair on his neck rise as it always did when he heard that hiss, and he wasn't at all surprised, when he turned his head, to find Mr. Blacksnake close by. Mr. Blacksnake glided swiftly up to the old log and coiled himself in front of the opening. Then he raised his head and ran out his tongue in ...
— The Adventures of Johnny Chuck • Thornton W. Burgess
... touched." The great soft mass came directly over the spot on which they had been standing, and stopped its descent about three feet from the ground, parallel to which it was slowly carried by the wind. A few yards off, in the direction in which it was moving, lay a long black snake asleep on the sand. When directly over its victim the jelly globule again sank till it touched the middle of the reptile's back. The serpent immediately coiled itself in a knot, but was already dead. The jellyfish did not swallow, ...
— A Journey in Other Worlds • J. J. Astor
... I saw a black snake today about two feet long the Belly of which was as black as any other part or as jet itself. it had 128 scuta on the belley 63 on ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... where lay coiled, and perfectly still, a spotted viper, an immense black snake, and one very light and silvery like ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various
... low, she was wiggling like a black snake through the white-topped seas. We had men in our foretop looking for the guard-ship, and because they knew almost exactly where to look for her, we saw her in time and swung the Bess inside her, yet closer to the breakers. ...
— Wide Courses • James Brendan Connolly
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