king's-heads

Updated: May 22, 2025

The earth is overgrown by an impenetrable carpet of creeping plants, under whose treacherous shelter innumerable rattlesnakes, king's-heads, and copperheads, writhe themselves, or lie coiled up on the watch for the wild pigeons, mockingbirds, parroquets, and black squirrels, who share with them the shelter of the thicket.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846