boa-constrictors

The little Marquis, her husband is walking about the deck in a bewildered manner, with a lean daughter on each arm: the carroty-tufted hope of the family is already smoking on the foredeck in a travelling costume checked all over, and in little lacquer-tip pod jean boots, and a shirt embroidered with pink boa-constrictors.

The Book of Snobs 2006

The lowest depression of the crater, which I described before as a level fissured sea of iridescent lava, has been apparently partially flooded by a recent overflow from Halemaumau, and the same agency has filled up the larger rifts with great shining rolls of black lava, obnoxiously like boa-constrictors in a state of repletion.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Yido, the snake-charmer, lounging easily upon a corner seat composed of the inter-twining bodies of two boa-constrictors, leaned across to him.

The Loves of Sakura Jiro and the Three Headed Maid 1996

The use of human food for the nourishment of animals is, however, being discouraged; and for the future guinea-pigs and broken glass will be the staple diet of boa-constrictors and ostriches respectively.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917 Various

The rubber-workers, who had no doubt had many encounters with reptiles, told me about large _sucurujus_ or boa-constrictors, which had their homes in the river not many miles from headquarters.

In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians Algot Lange

I also feel the poetical afflatus coming over me, and, if you like, we will set about devouring paper like two boa-constrictors.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

In one respect all serpents are boa-constrictors, for a very small one has been seen in the act of thus crushing a bird; but the great boa which inhabits tropical America is a giant, which has been known to swallow even

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

The most interesting are the enormous snakes, called boa-constrictors, with bodies nearly as thick as a child's, and many yards in length.

The Children's Book of London

The setting sun cast long shadows through the trees, and their interlaced branches looked like a forest of boa-constrictors.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

They came clamped in one another's arms like bears trying to hug each other to death; they came contorting themselves as if they were boa-constrictors trying to swallow each other.

100\%: the Story of a Patriot Upton Sinclair 1923