One of the men almost stepped on a poisonous coral-snake, which would have been a serious thing, as his feet were bare. ❋ Unknown (1914)
It would be interesting to find out whether this attack was exceptional, that is, whether the mussurama has or has not as a species learned to avoid the coral-snake. ❋ Unknown (1914)
A mussurama in his possession, which had with impunity killed and eaten several rattlesnakes and representatives of the lachecis genus, also killed and ate a venomous coral-snake, but shortly afterward itself died from the effects of the poison. ❋ Unknown (1914)
But the vital difference is that between all these poisons of the pit-vipers and the poisons of the colubrine snakes, such as the cobra and the coral-snake. ❋ Unknown (1914)
It has been said that the brilliant hues of the coral-snake when in its native haunts really confer on it a concealing coloration. ❋ Unknown (1914)
But against the dark-brown mould of the forest floor on which we found this coral-snake its bright and varied coloration was distinctly revealing; infinitely more so than the duller mottling of the jararaca and other dangerous snakes of the genus lachecis. ❋ Unknown (1914)
A government scientist tells me of a curious result from coral-snake bite which came under his notice. ❋ Unknown (1910)
I dell you a coral-snake is a peauty -- all red und white like coral dot has been gestrung in bands upon der neck of a girl. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
In any case it is plain that an animal which is as safe as a wasp or a coral-snake can afford to wear any suit of clothes it likes. ❋ J. Arthur Thomson (1897)
East, one of them being called the coral-snake or harlequin snake, and the other, which occurs in the southwest, is known as the Sonoran coral-snake. ❋ Unknown (1896)
A full grown diamond-back rattlesnake, which may attain the extreme length of eight feet, is perhaps the most dangerous of all the American poisonous reptiles, though a fully grown coral-snake may be regarded as almost, if not quite as, deadly. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Snakes are said to be common, and among them several are venomous -- the rattlesnake, the coral-snake, and most dreaded of all, a little dark serpent a foot or so in length, with an enormous head, whose bite is said to be immediately fatal. ❋ Frederick Starr (1895)
But the vital difference is that between all these poisons of the pit - vipers and the poisons of the colubrine snakes, such as the cobra and the coral-snake. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)
The harlequin snake and the coral-snake are so similar in color and in habits, one description for both will answer our purpose. ❋ Lina Beard (1888)
The coral-snake is much the same in color, and only a close observer would notice the difference. ❋ Lina Beard (1888)
a cable; and the coral-snake with his red and ringed body stretched at full length along the ground. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
