grass-snake

I've only seen a snake a couple of times too but I know how to tell a poisonous one from say a grass-snake because I used to have some books with stories about nature when I was a kid.

Snakes in the minds of Turkish students AYDIN 2009

Among the reptiles are isolated populations of four species: toad-headed agama Phrynocephalus versocolor, multicellated racerunner Eremias multiocellata, Gobi racerunner Eremias przewalskii and patterned grass-snake Elapha dione; also the locally rare adder Vipera berus, moccasin snake Aghistrodon halys, Tlafe agilis and sand lizard Lacerta agilis.

Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia 2008

The grass-snake seemed to come up from the river bottom.

"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

He crouched in terror while four feet of grass-snake undulated by.

"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

Out in the graveyard, where as yet no bird sang, it was as if the dead had arisen in the stark hours between twelve and two, and were waiting unobtrusively, majestically, each by his own bed, to go down and break their long fast with the bee and the grass-snake in refectories too minute and too immortal to be known by the living.

Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

And a beautiful grass-snake, which, as it is limbless, is often mistaken for a tree-snake, is also of the lizard genus.

The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Francis Edward Younghusband 1902

A startled grass-snake strove to leap out of the way of the monarch of the woods --- a hurried crunch and a string of thirty white eggs was left motherless, forlorn.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 Various 1898

The shriek of the field-mouse startled you no more, nor the swift dry rustle of the grass-snake.

Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Maurice Hewlett 1892

But if, knowing nothing of snakes except that the viper is venomous, a child runs away from a grass-snake, he argues by analogy; and, though his conduct is prudentially justifiable, his inference is wrong: for there is no law that 'All snakes are venomous,' but only that those are venomous that have a certain structure of fang; a point which he did not stay to examine.

Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

It was in size and shape like our common grass-snake, and was formerly classed by naturalists in the same genus, Coronella.

Far Away and Long Ago 1881