moccasin
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A water moccasin may glide silently past, and a few times we’ve seen iridescent alligator eyes peering out at us before they sank back down into the depths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
Her team then checked this in a variety of snakes - dissecting a total of nine species including the carpet python, puff adder and Mexican moccasin.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022
“He was kind of a grumpy snake, and everybody was going, ‘Omigod, omigod, it's a water moccasin, kill it!’” she recollects.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022
At the next stop, a small man in moccasin slippers and no shirt got on.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2021
The kid who suggests the Shoemakers in honor of the old moccasin factory is laughed out of the auditorium.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Then with my own kids making their own memories, watching the peanut butter being made, choosing moccasins from the now-gone moccasin shop at the Dell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2024
In Vegas, she and Missi both wore moccasins made by an aunt.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
Mattel should have considered traditional pucker toe moccasins, instead of black shoes, and included symbols on the basket that Cherokees use to tell a story, she said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
Littlefeather, who was 26 at the time, cut a regal figure — wearing moccasins and a tasseled dress, her long, dark hair parted and clipped with intricate beadwork.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2022
Mollie—who, like her mother, then wore leggings, moccasins, a skirt, a blouse, and a blanket—slept on the floor in a corner of her family’s lodge and had to do many grueling chores.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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