Carpet Snake

The carpet-snake is occasionally kept in the house or in the barn to destroy mice and other small vermin. ❋ Frank Fox (1917)

Some of the non-venomous snakes of Australia are very handsome, the green tree-snake and the carpet-snake (a species of python) for examples. ❋ Frank Fox (1917)

As Norman ran into the kitchen, he stopped short and pointed the gun, for right in the middle of the floor, writhing about in a way that might easily have been mistaken for menace, was a large carpet-snake. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

The grubs were tempting, but the carpet-snake was not; so Shanter had it all to himself, eating till Rifle laughed, and said that he must be like india-rubber, else he could never have held so much. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

Now it would be down some lovely creek, overhung by wide-spreading ferns, in search of fish; now to hunt out and slay dangerous serpents, or capture the carpet-snake, which the black looked upon as a delicacy. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

The most common with us were the brown, black, and whip snakes, and the death-adder, all poisonous; and the carpet-snake, harmless. ❋ Charles Henry Eden (1858)

a fine kangaroo, and a carpet-snake over nine feet in length. ❋ David Wynford Carnegie (1885)

[Eve] [tripped], then [shouted] "Carpet snake!" when we laughed at her. ❋ Rebeccah (2007)

[Briony] [laid] down whole day as a [carpet snake]. ❋ Talemah (2010)

Man! That [blonde] has [a major] [carpet snake]! ❋ OG TWIDDLEDIDDLES (2015)

[Old mate] is a real [carpet snake], give him nothing because he’ll throw you [under the bus] ❋ Chips Magee (2022)