Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small slender striped snake, Eutænia saurita, abundant in the United States: a kind of garden snake, having several long yellow stripes on a dark variegated ground. It is a very pretty and quite harmless serpent. See
Eutænia .
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Examples
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In slow contortions, the body, of a transparency that showed the light through, writhed like a tremendous ribbon-snake, and a sharp row of serrated fins surmounted all its length, from which, near the head, scarlet streamers floated like a mane.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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I had not gone far when I picked up a dainty little ribbon-snake, and having no bag or box along, I rolled him up in my handkerchief, and journeyed on with the wiggling reptile safely caged on top of my head under my tight-fitting hat.
Roof and Meadow Dallas Lore Sharp 1899
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We had come to the cage of the little ribbon-snake from the picnic grove, and had arrived just in time to catch him crawling away out of a hole that he had worked in the rusty mosquito-netting wire of the cover.
Roof and Meadow Dallas Lore Sharp 1899
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