coach-whip

To one of them, not bigger than a tomtit, we have given the name of coach-whip, from its note exactly resembling the smack of a whip.

The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

Its long, slim tail is like the lash of a coach-whip and at its base is a row of little spears with many barbs, which are capable of inflicting exceedingly painful wounds.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

There are, besides these, a variety of other snakes found here, such as the green, the chicken, the copperbelly, the wampum, the coach-whip and corn snakes; all of which are esteemed harmless creatures.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt

From the trees the bell-bird, the coach-whip, the tewinga, the laughing-jackass, the rifle-bird and regent, filled the air with sound, if not with music.

Seven Little Australians Ethel Sybil Turner 1915

This fact would seem to account for the superstition, especially among the negroes, that a coach-whip would attack a man.

With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

He would not, in February, have heard the song-lark, that unshamed rival of an English cousin famed in poetry, and the sharp crescendo of the coach-whip bird would scarcely be classed as “sweet.”

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914

The "coach-whip," a very dark-brown, almost black serpent, so called because it looks as if it were a platted coach-whip, I have seen flash across the road so quickly that if the track it left in the dust or sand was not there as a witness one might doubt the testimony of the eye.

With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

The blacksnake and the chicken-snake, constrictors of near kin to the racer and the coach-whip, but not nearly so swift, are tree-climbers.

With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

Cutting the body open, I made the (to me) surprising discovery that it was viviparous -- I had thought all snakes were oviparous like the chicken-snake, and racer, and coach-whip.

With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

My eyes cloud up for a rainy spell, and in my throat there comes a lump so big I feel like a coach-whip snake that has inadvertently swallowed a china darning-egg.

Cobb's Bill-of-Fare Peter Newell 1910