cotton-mouth
Example Sentences
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Every time I sees a cotton-mouth I feels like I had just sit down on one.
From Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up by Mulford, Clarence Edward
But weuns have medicine tuh take when cotton-mouth or moccasin hit in leg with fangs.
From Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat by Rathborne, St. George
What's the color of the rainbow-snake and of the cotton-mouth moccasin?
From The Purple Heights by Oemler, Marie Conway
"Yes," he said, "a big one, a moccasin,—a cotton-mouth; but I'll fix him."
From A Florida Sketch-Book by Torrey, Bradford
We were both old hands at the business, had each in our time suffered the "cotton-mouth" thirst, and the memory of it outweighed any desire for treasure.
From Arizona Nights by White, Stewart Edward
