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Patricia writes the names of three boys beside the skinless woman when there's a snapfast thud from the boa's cage.
Textbook Sheldon Lee Compton 2011
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Patricia writes the names of three boys beside the skinless woman when there's a snapfast thud from the boa's cage.
Textbook Sheldon Lee Compton 2011
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The boa's branch is only a few inches above Alice's honey-gold tresses.
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She notices too the boa's enormous, vividly patterned bulk wrapped around and around the Tree of Knowledge's brown trunk, ending with his smooth head resting on the scuffed lower branch.
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Their leaders always feared, as a senior Salinas adviser recently said, that the country was "potentially violent" - and tried to contain that violence with strong institutions, particularly the Institutional Revolutionary Party (known by its Spanish initials of PRI), which for 65 years has held Mexico in a boa's embrace.
Mexico's Fatal Error 2008
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Nestling your nose among the furs of which your boa's made, --
Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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The boa's instincts were to crush, the python's to swallow; but this swallowing pertained also to the boa, and it came about that the boa got about three inches of the python's tail into his mouth, and later the python got a grip on the boa's tail.
The Grain Ship Morgan Robertson 1888
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Luckily the mast, yard, and sail had been placed in the bottom of her and so had not been broken, although almost the whole of the boa's ponderous weight must have rested upon them.
Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess Harry Collingwood 1886
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Having relinquished its hold of the tree, and unable to encircle the animal's body with its deadly folds, the boa's strength was useless, and from that time on only the snarling of the jaguar and the threshing of the serpent could be heard until the fight came to an end.
The Search for the Silver City A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan James Otis 1880
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The boys could see that the boa's tail was fastened firmly around a tree, thus giving him a purchase such as the jaguar would have difficulty in overcoming.
The Search for the Silver City A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan James Otis 1880
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