sarpent

(Remember, to sound like a salty sea dog, you say "sarpent," not "serpent.")

Boing Boing 2006

Phansy a country through whose werdant planes the selvery Garonne wines, like — like a benevvolent sarpent.

Burlesques 2006

Phansy a country through whose werdant planes the selvery Garonne wines, like — like a benevvolent sarpent.

Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

Isn't it the intercourse with this here country that enables them to speak their very language with something rayther like a leetle correctness, though they're just about as far behind us as the last jint of the sea-sarpent is from his eye-tooth?

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 Various

He neglected his family and business, he wur thet fur gone; finally got hisself killed, and then she pizened herself with a sarpent, not a moccasin nor rattler, but a little short blue-brown scrub snake not

The Wedge of Gold C. C. Goodwin

I've got ther finest pair o 'leopard skins yo' ever seen, some elephant tusks, 'nd I migh'er brought a sarpent skin that war a daisy, but I drew ther line on snakes.

The Wedge of Gold C. C. Goodwin

The following bit of merry nonsense, which has the merit of being 'good to sing,' may possibly enliven more than one camp-fire, ere the last fold of the 'big sarpent' has given the final stifle to the un-fed-eralists.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

"Y 'know I ain't fat; y' know I'm as good a man as ever I was -- look at that, you old sarpent!"

The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915

Down I went on my face, and through that hole I crawled and wriggled, -- don't ask me how, for I don't know to this day, -- thinkin 'of the sarpent in the

Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

Something under my waistcoat went creep, creep, creep, same as a sarpent, when you first spake of her; but its easier to stand till that jaw inside anyway.

Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon Hall Caine 1892