Etymology
Origin of whipsnake
Example Sentences
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The whipsnake, of a beautiful changing green, and the coral with alternate broad transverse bars of black and red, glide from bush to bush, and may be handled with safety; they are harmless little creatures.
From Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton
The Subhanyo, a kind of whipsnake, and a large yellow rock snake called Got, are little feared.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The whipsnake of a beautiful changing green, and the coral, with alternate broad traverse bars of black and red, glide from bush to bush, and may be handled with safety; they are harmless little creatures.
From Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton
But when Alice just touched his hand in taking it from him, he wished it had been a whipsnake instead of a magpie.
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley
Again, there was a whipsnake, and a toad, bloated as the aristocracy of old time, and puffed up as the plutocracy of to-day.
From He by Walter Herries Pollock
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