 | Gleaner - 1805 - 426 pages
...looked all around, without distinguishing any thing» until I climbed one of my great hemp stalks ; when, to my astonishment, I beheld two snakes of considerable...pursuing the other with great celerity through a hemp stubble-field. The aggressor was of the black kind, six feet long; the fugitive was a water-snake,... | |
 | Roger Lamb - 1811 - 314 pages
...engaged by a strange sort of rustling noise at some distance. J looked all around, and to my astonishment beheld two snakes of considerable length, the one pursuing the other with great celerity through a hempstubble-field. The aggressor was of the black kind, six feet long, the fugitive was a water-snake,... | |
 | 1822 - 426 pages
...looked all around, without distinguishing any thing, until £ climbed up one of the great hemp stalks, when, to my astonishment, I beheld two snakes of considerable...the black kind, six feet long ; the fugitive was a water-snake, nearly of equal dimensions. They soon met^ and in the fury of their first encounter, appeared... | |
 | 1823 - 442 pages
...looked all around, without distinguishing any thing, until I climbed up one of the great hemp stalks, when, to my astonishment, I beheld two snakes of considerable...the black kind, six feet long ; the fugitive was a water-snake, nearly of equal dimensions. They soon met, and in the fury of their first encounter, appeared... | |
 | 1824 - 460 pages
...looked ;i!l around, without distinguishing any thing, until I climbed one of my gnat hemp stalks ^ when, to my astonishment, I beheld two snakes of considerable...pursuing the other with great celerity through a hemp stubblefield. ^ The aggressor was of the black kind, six feet long; the fugitive was a water-snake,... | |
 | 1824 - 460 pages
...looked 'all around, without distinguishing any thing, until: I elimbed one of ii iv great hemp stalks - when, to my astonishment, I beheld two snakes of considerable length, the cue pursuing the other with great celerity through a hemp stubblei field. ^The aggressor was of the... | |
 | Abigail Roberts - 1826 - 188 pages
...around, without distinguishing any thing, until I climbed one of my great hemp stalks; when, to my great astonishment, I beheld two snakes of considerable length, the one pursuing the other, with great quickness through a liemp-stubWe field. The aggressor was of the black kind, six feet long; the fugitive... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1856 - 984 pages
...until I climbed up one of my great hemp-stalks; when, to my astonishment,' I beheld two snakes of a considerable length, the one pursuing the other with great celerity, through a hemp-stubble field. The aggressor was of the black kind, six feet long ; the fugitive was a Water Snake,... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1857 - 396 pages
...until I climbed up one of my great hemp-stalks; when, to my astonishment, I beheld two Snakes of a considerable length, the one pursuing the other with great celerity through a hemp-stubble field. The aggressor was of the Black kind, six feet long; the fugitive was a Water Snake,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - 720 pages
...until I climbed up one of my great hemp-stalks, when, to my astonishment, I beheld two snakes of a considerable length, the one pursuing the other with great celerity through a hemp-stubble field. The aggressor was of the black kind, six feet long ; the fugitive was a water-snake,... | |
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The aggressor was of the black kind, six feet long; the fugitive was a water snake, nearly of equal dimensions. They soon met, and in the fury of their first encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and whilst their united tails... 
