bull-snake

A long, plump, shining bull-snake took that particular moment to slip off one of the log beams and bounce on the bride's head.

The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916

I have also seen bows covered with the skins of the bull-snake, or wound with sinew, and bows have been made from the horns of the elk, in the early days, after a long course of preparation.

Indian Why Stories 1915

You remember that big bull-snake that lives under the barn, the one I've been layin 'for?

Heart of the Sunset Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

On the table was a bowl of milk from which a large bull-snake, in a gay Turkey-carpet design, was drinking.

Living Alone Stella Benson 1912

I joined them, and Leo accompanied us at some distance, running ahead and starting up at us out of clumps of ironweed, calling, 'I'm a jack rabbit,' or, 'I'm a big bull-snake.'

My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

I have also seen bows covered with the skins of the bull-snake, or wound with sinew, and bows have been made from the horns of the elk, in the early days, after a long course of preparation.

Indian Why Stories Frank Bird Linderman 1903

Wind-River found a bull-snake asleep and lugged him home, hanging over his shoulder.

Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899

Doggy was in a frame of mind, puzzling out bull-snake trail, and hawk trail, and bob-cat trail.

Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899

I'd jest as lief sleep with a bull-snake as a man, "snorted Smith in disgust, and, pulling the blankets about his ears, was lost in oblivion.

'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916

I joined them, and Leo accompanied us at some distance, running ahead and starting up at us out of clumps of ironweed, calling, “I’m a jack rabbit,” or, “I’m a big bull-snake.”

My Ántonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910