cotton-mouth
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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
Cotton-Mouth Moccasin.—The largest specimens of the cotton-mouth moccasin attain to a length of about six feet.
From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by Harris, H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy)
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
What's the color of the rainbow-snake and of the cotton-mouth moccasin?
From The Purple Heights by Oemler, Marie Conway
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)
