diamond-backed

• “A huge diamond-backed rattlesnake blocked the path, coiled and poised to strike, rattling at me like mad.”

  Fictionaut: ɘloЯ

• “Doubtless they had holes somewhere about the base of the mound and there might be a dozen big diamond-backed rattlers coiled up in that cave-like interior waiting for him to put his hand among them.”

  People of the Dark

• “We took a peep at the diamond-backed dining-room, and when I saw the waiters refusing everything but certified checks in the way of a tip, I said to Peaches, "This is no place for us!”

  You Should Worry Says John Henry

• “After that, she led Bernice off to a dense thicket where she said she had something to show her and, to Bernice's horror, exhibited a huge diamond-backed rattlesnake, coiled as if asleep.”

  The Mystery at Number Six

• “In the experiments on snake poisons he was conducting he had in confinement a six-foot diamond-backed Florida rattler.”

  With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon

• “The first impulse of Clanton had been to stamp out the life of this man just as he would that of a diamond-backed rattlesnake; but he meant to take his time about it and to see that the fellow suffered.”

  A Man Four-Square

• “All the diamond-backed terrapins at fifty dollars a dozen which he might be invited to enjoy after that would do him no harm.”

  T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him

• “The eastern diamond-backed rattlesnake's birthing moment was even more dramatic, as she suddenly produced 19 very healthy offspring consisting of 10 females and nine males.”

  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines

• “A diamond-backed water snake floats on a partly submerged branch, letting the sun bake him into wakefulness, when he'll slither off and hunt for perch in the shallows.”

  statesman.com - Highschool

• “Notice the chainlike pattern on the back of the diamond-backed water snake at top.”

  seMissourian.com Headlines

Show 10 more examples...