 | William Bingley - 1805 - 622 pages
...looked all around without distinguishing any thing, until I climbed up one of my great hemp->talks ; when, to my astonishment, I beheld two snakes of considerable...together ; and, whilst their united tails beat the v ground, they mutually tried with open jaws to lacerate each other. What a fell aspect did they present... | |
 | Gleaner - 1805 - 426 pages
...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, nearly of equal dimensions. They soon met, and in the fury of their first encounter, they... | |
 | Roger Lamb - 1811 - 310 pages
...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, nearly of equal dimensions. They soon met, and in the fury of their first encounter, they... | |
 | 1822 - 430 pages
...stubble field. 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...in an instant firmly twisted together : and, whilst then? united tails beat the ground, they mutually tried, with open jaws, to lacerate each other. What... | |
 | 1824 - 458 pages
...snakes of considerable length, the cue pursuing the other with great celerity through a hemp stubblei field. ^The aggressor was of the black kind, six feet long; the fugitive was a waterrsnake, nearly of equal dimensions. They soon met, and in the fury of their first encounter, they... | |
 | 1824 - 458 pages
...considerable length, the one 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, nearly of equal dimensions. They soon met, and in the fury of their first encounter, they... | |
 | Abigail Roberts - 1826 - 188 pages
...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 was a water snake, nearly of equal size; they soon met, and in the fury of their first encounter, they appeared, in an instant, firmly... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1856 - 984 pages
...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...the fury of their first encounter, appeared in an inslant firmly twisted together ; and whilst their united tails beat the ground, they mutually tried,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - 720 pages
...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, nearly of equal dimensions. They soon met, and, in the fury of their first encounter,... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1861 - 400 pages
...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, nearly of equal dimensions. They soon met, and in the fury of their first encounter appeared... | |
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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... 
