male-dictions

Updated: May 6, 2025

Twenty-four years I've waited for this!" I went into that icy-cold river and made my cast just above the weir, and all but foul-hooked a blue-and-black water-snake with a coral mouth who coiled herself on a stone and hissed male-dictions. The next cast ah, the pride of it, the regal splendor of it! the thrill that ran down from finger-tip to toe! Then the water boiled.

Rudyard Kipling - American Notes