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

Then, quite unexpectedly—oh! what a start it gave her!—the solitary white object burst upon her view, leprous and ghastly as the yawn of a cotton-mouth.

From Chita: a Memory of Last Island by Hearn, Lafcadio

A cotton-mouth water snake, short, thick as a man's arm and indescribably loathsome, wriggled on top of the mud as Roger prepared to leap.

From The Plunderer by Oyen, Henry

Next to these a large sized cotton-mouth moccasin is perhaps most to be dreaded, to be followed, depending upon their size, by the other varieties of rattlesnakes, the copperheads, and finally the ground-rattler.

From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by Harris, H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy)

How strong the feeling is my boatman gave me proof within ten minutes after his failure with the cotton-mouth.

From A Florida Sketch-Book by Torrey, Bradford