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Then the Seneschal seized his buffalo horn, which hung by a strap, long, spotted, and crooked as a boa constrictor, and with both hands pressed it to his lips. He blew up his cheeks like a balloon, his eyes became bloodshot, he half-lowered his eyelids, drew his belly into half its size, sending thence into his lungs his entire supply of breath, and began to play.
If you don't believe it, let some gentleman send me a buggy or a single gig you shall see how myself and wife will take pleasure, going from town to town throw the harness in too any gentleman that feels like it white or coloured and I will try to send him a boa constrictor to take his comfort; I know how to take the gentleman without any danger.
In one part of the garden, winding paths led through a tangled tropical growth so dense and wild that one felt as if in the midst of an African jungle where a tiger might spring forth or a boa constrictor drop down on one's head.
A serpent had entered her poor little Eden even the green-eyed monster constrictor, who, if given full swing, would not spare a bone of her meager comfort. A neighbor who chanced to come in at the time, unobserved overheard the last remark, and Mrs.
A charge of Leclerc's horse and of Joubert's infantry crushed its head; volleys of cannon and musketry from the plateau tore its sides; an ammunition wagon exploded in its midst; and the great constrictor forthwith writhed its bleeding coils back into the valley, where it lay crushed and helpless for the rest of the fight.
We could see strange it appeared to us that, instead of battling head to head face to face the fangs of the `constrictor' were buried in the rattles of the `crotalus! Stranger still, the tail of the former rose and fell with a muscular and powerful impetus, whipping the latter to death! "The contest was soon ended.
The more a man knows, the more he can believe. "It would be easier with a cobra than a constrictor," Cadman had said. "You'd have to strike just the right key, son.
At nine o'clock the next morning, Peckham was on the street lying in wait for an early broker. It was not until half-past nine that they began to arrive. "Any bids for Boa Constrictor?" Peckham inquired of Macdugal, the first-comer. "They were bidding forty cents at the club last night, with no takers." "Let me know if you get fifty cents bid." "How much do you offer?" "Ten thousand shares."
In it there were more than twenty elephants, giraffes, hippopotami, rhinoceroses, zebras, dromedaries, camels, and the rarest kinds of antelopes. Then came the reptiles, from the boa constrictor, who was ten yards long, to the smallest blind-worm, amongst them some of the most dangerous kinds. Crocodiles twenty feet long, monstrous toads, tortoises as big as donkeys.
Asmanshausen looked as fierce as a boa constrictor before dinner. The proboscis of the Grand Duke heaved to and fro like the trunk of an enraged elephant. Hockheimer glared like a Bengal tiger about to spring upon its prey. Steinberg growled like a Baltic bear. In Markbrunnen Vivian recognised the wild boar he had himself often hunted.
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