cotton-mouth
Example Sentences
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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
The cotton-mouth moccasin is semi-aquatic, being found around the edges of streams and other bodies of water.
From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by Harris, H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy)
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)
What's the color of the rainbow-snake and of the cotton-mouth moccasin?
From The Purple Heights by Oemler, Marie Conway
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
