Bull Snake

A long, plump, shining bull-snake took that particular moment to slip off one of the log beams and bounce on the bride's head. ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)

I have also seen bows covered with the skins of the bull-snake, or wound with sinew, and bows have been made from the horns of the elk, in the early days, after a long course of preparation. ❋ Unknown (1915)

You remember that big bull-snake that lives under the barn, the one I've been layin 'for? ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

On the table was a bowl of milk from which a large bull-snake, in a gay Turkey-carpet design, was drinking. ❋ Stella Benson (1912)

I joined them, and Leo accompanied us at some distance, running ahead and starting up at us out of clumps of ironweed, calling, 'I'm a jack rabbit,' or, 'I'm a big bull-snake.' ❋ Willa Sibert Cather (1910)

Doggy was in a frame of mind, puzzling out bull-snake trail, and hawk trail, and bob-cat trail. ❋ Henry Wallace Phillips (1899)

Wind-River found a bull-snake asleep and lugged him home, hanging over his shoulder. ❋ Henry Wallace Phillips (1899)

I'd jest as lief sleep with a bull-snake as a man, "snorted Smith in disgust, and, pulling the blankets about his ears, was lost in oblivion. ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)

I joined them, and Leo accompanied us at some distance, running ahead and starting up at us out of clumps of ironweed, calling, “I’m a jack rabbit,” or, “I’m a big bull-snake.” ❋ Willa Sibert Cather (1910)