The Dwarf yelled as if he had room for the voice of two full-grown men, and the Fat Woman, as soon as she felt something squirming under her, thought that one of the boa constrictors had got loose, and that she had sat down on it.

The Sun, a few days ago, had an editorial article about a reported theft of a box containing four large boa-constrictors.

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But what a scenea labyrinth of narrow creeks, so narrow that a canoe could not pass up, haunted with alligators and boa-constrictors, parrots and white herons, amid an inextricable confusion of vegetable mud, roots of the alder-like mangroves, and tangled creepers hanging from tree to tree; and overhead huge fan-palms, delighting in the moisture, mingled with still huger broad-leaved trees in every stage of decay.

He boasts a shovel hat, adorned with a gigantic sprig of shamrock: he sits upon the chest in which, if historical tradition truly speaks, the great boa constrictor of Killarney was shut up and sunk into the waters of the lake.

A few dark logs, as usual, were lodged at the bottom, looking suspiciously like alligators or boa-constrictors.

The alligator, however, does not come up the mountain streams; and the boa-constrictors are rare, save on the east coast: but it is as well, ere you jump into a pool, to look whether there be not a snake in it, of any length from three to twenty feet.

Inside the Cocal, two hundred yards to the westward, stretches inland a labyrinth of lagoons and mangrove swamps, impassable to most creatures save alligators and boa-constrictors.

"Down here they call them anacondas, and in other parts of the world they're boa-constrictors.

" *** Six little boa-constrictors have been born in the Zoological Gardens.

The text must be here erroneous, as two paces, or ten feet, will scarcely suffice in describing the boa constrictor, sometimes near thirty feet long.

One heave and a wriggle means a boa-constrictor, two heaves and a growl a tigerand so on.

The man opposite Dick, in particular, was a human boa-constrictor.

The general dank heat stimulates vegetable growth in every scale from mildew to mahogany trees, and multiplies the members of the animal kingdom, be they mosquitoes, elephants or boa constrictors.

*** Forty thousand children visited the Zoo on Whit-Monday, and one anxious father who had mislaid a couple of infants stayed for a long time in the reptile-house, looking suspiciously at the swollen appearance of the boa constrictor.

"I suppose I shall wake up some morning and find a boa constrictor in my bed.

I shall fill the jungles with animated lifeelephants, lions, tigers, panthers, leopards, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, giraffes, zebras, crocodiles, boa constrictors, and other specimens of natural history indigenous to that delightful region.

your lions fighting your tigers or your rhinoceroses; your hippopotamuses engaged in death struggles with your crocodiles; and your boa constrictors gobbling down your nativesor, if that is objectionable on the score of humanity, your monkeys.

The tigers' tails and the elephants' trunks, the alligators' snouts and the boa constrictor's convolutions, he recognized at once.

The sunrises and sunsets, the boa constrictors, the tigers, and the other phenomena of Africa, are all immense, gorgeous, and peculiar.

This conveyed the idea of two boa constrictors fighting.

He stopped the panorama with a cough, and said: "The entire population of this particular jungle areboa constrictors of unprecedented size and ferocity.

"These boa constrictors, so admirably delineated here,"commenced Tiffles.

The only boa constrictors that I have, are now before you.

Grant crossed the river below, coiled his forces around Vicksburg like a boa-constrictor, and held it in his grasp.