Coiled on the rock above, and within reach of his face, were several large rattlesnakes, and he always insisted that one made a spring at him, as his hands gave way, and he put out for the basin into which he plunged.

A few were harmless species, as bull snakes and arrow snakes; but mostly the Moki used rattlesnakes, which are native to the mesa and its rocky cliffs.

This country wasn't made for humans; it belongs to the coyotes and the rattlesnakes.

The Major, moreover, had a vivid recollection of his last night's bed upon the roof of the limousine, where he had crept to escape rattlesnakes, and was in no mood to again camp out in the open while they traveled in Arizona.

"D'ye think if I was a man I'd stop in such a God-forsaken place as yours, with nothing but rattlesnakes and coyotes to keep me company?

There are rattlesnakes, but not near so frequent as is generally reported.

The vines (and he pointed at them, fringing the roadside indefinitely) were great places for rattlesnakes.

"Yes, sir" (this in answer to an inquiry), "there are plenty of rattlesnakes here clean up to Christmas."

I made a note of it, mentally, as a cheerful token, indicative of a probable scarcity of rattlesnakes; but by and by, as I drew nearer, the truth of the matter began to break upon me.

In this paragraph we have very vague indications of humming birds, rattlesnakes, and of the animal now called Pecari.

During the two days that our route lay through this town, we made many attempts to capture one of the little fellows; but they cleverly evaded all the snares set for them, invariably dodged at the flash of our pistols, chattering away as lively as ever, while the little brown owls and rattlesnakes that shared their houses with them fell frequent victims to the boys' rifles.

In this junk-shop of the world, rattlesnakes were rulers of the soil.

After some discussion Souwanas decided to tell them the Nanahboozhoo story of how he lessened the power of the rattlesnakes to do harm.

But why did he not kill all the rattlesnakes at once?" Souwanas was, however, too clever to be caught trying to answer a question that, although asked by a child, was beyond his knowledge, so he resorted to his calumet, and as the smoke of it began to taint the air

Mr. E. Stone, who then owned the land on the east side of the river, thought his farm a very poor one; he, however, commenced clearing it in the midst of wild beasts and rattlesnakes, both of which were abundant, and in a few years was richly rewarded for his labor, in the sale of village lots, which commanded high prices.

The moccasin snakes, so called, and water rattle-snakesthe bites of both of which are as poisonous as our upland rattlesnakes at the north,are found in myriads about the stagnant waters and swamps of the South.

The moccasin snakes, so called, and water rattle-snakesthe bites of both of which are as poisonous as our upland rattlesnakes at the north,are found in myriads about the stagnant waters and swamps of the South.

The other three sides of the hall, which is nearly square, are entirely devoted to the large wall cages, with fronts of stout plate glass, in single sheets, rising about 14 feet to the roof, in which the serpents are confinedthe huge pythons, anaconda, and boa constrictor, the poisonous cobras and rattlesnakes, and others well known to the visitors at these gardens.

What business can he or any other decent man have with the nest of rattlesnakes that we can't drag out from under that bluff?

I was as scared of the Ku Klux Klan as of rattlesnakes.

A lot of rattlesnakes formed themselves into a lariat, and tried to catch it; but those at the noose end were all cut to pieces.

You see, I come from that frightfully exciting West, and I know all about the pet rattlesnakes and the wildly Bohemian cowboys.

There are also gophers, skunks, prairie rats, rattlesnakes, and hawks, which feed on snakes and rats.

I'd ruther have forty rattlesnakes around than that stuffoff with it.

Through the scorching sunshine ran scorpions and lizards, pursued by enormous rattlesnakes.