 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1860 - 376 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,... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1861 - 400 pages
...attention was engaged by a strange sort of rustling noise at some paces distant, and, IOOJKing round, he beheld two snakes of 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,... | |
 | G. Garratt - 1862 - 462 pages
...attention was engaged by a strange sort of rustling noise at some paces distant, and looking round he beheld two snakes of considerable length, the one...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,... | |
 | William Bingley - 1871 - 1056 pages
...in the arbor, my attention was engaged by a strange sort of rustling noise, at some paces distant. I looked all around without distinguishing any thing,...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,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1872 - 758 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,... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales.) - 1875 - 942 pages
...distant. I looked all around without distinguishing anything, until I climbed one of my great hemp stalks, when, to my astonishment, I beheld two snakes of considerable length, the one pursuing the other through a hemp stubblefield. The aggressor was of the black kind, six feet long ; the fugitive was... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 390 pages
...CREVECCEUR. A Snake-Story. As I was one day sitting solitary and pensive in my primitive arbour, ... I beheld two snakes of considerable length, the one...soon met, and in the fury of their first encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and whilst their united tails beat the ground,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 394 pages
...CREVECCEUR. A Snake-Story. As I was one day sitting solitary and pensive in my primitive arbour. ... I beheld two snakes of considerable length, the one...feet long; the fugitive was a water snake, nearly ot equal dimensions. They soon met, and in the fury of their first encounter, they appeared in an instant... | |
 | J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, William Peterfield Trent, Ludwig Lewisohn - 1904 - 408 pages
...I 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...soon met, and in the fury of their first encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and whilst their united tails beat the ground,... | |
 | J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur - 1904 - 412 pages
...I 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...soon met, and in the fury of their first encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and whilst their united tails beat the ground,... | |
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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... 
