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There are many snakes in the mountains: rattlesnakes, copperheads, blacksnakes, and almost every other variety of the snake kind; in short, the boys have snake on the brain.
From The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by Beatty, John
From the bottom the shadows went slanting along the glooming walls of the gorges, swallowing up the yellow patches of sunlight that still lingered near the top like blacksnakes swallowing eggs.
From Roughing it De Luxe by McCutcheon, John T.
I don't believe in killing snakes as a general rule, but blacksnakes do more harm than good, I believe.
From The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol by Theiss, Lewis E.
Wild flowers grew everywhere, great beds were blue with calamus, and the birds flocked in companies to drive away the water blacksnakes that often found nests, and liked eggs and bird babies.
From Laddie; a true blue story by Stratton-Porter, Gene
She left behind her writhing all over the kitchen floor a pair of big blacksnakes.
From The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air by Penrose, Margaret
