moccasin

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 car moved deeper into the Georgia countryside, prayer breaking out of the windows in wavering harmonics spilling into the ditches and moccasin strung creeks of the pine counties outside of Atlanta.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

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

Indigenous Environmental Network’s program director, Kandi White, said in a news release that Braun was the type of person that would “give her last meal or pair of moccasins to those in need.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022

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

Indian moccasins were so much more comfortable and waterproof than stiff, moldering English boots that when colonists had to walk for long distances their Indian companions often pitied their discomfort and gave them new footwear.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann