rattlesnakes

His favorite stunt, when he isn't collecting rattlesnakes, is to wait for a forty-mile-an-hour breeze, and then get up and walk on the parapet of a skyscraper -- on the lee side, mind you, so that if he blows off there's nothing to fetch him up but the street.

CHAPTER VII 2010

A studio-lit person waist deep in rattlesnakes juggling flaming chainsaws is allowed to look off axis if they must.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

His favorite stunt, when he isn't collecting rattlesnakes, is to wait for a forty-mile-an-hour breeze, and then get up and walk on the parapet of a skyscraper -- on the lee side, mind you, so that if he blows off there's nothing to fetch him up but the street.

Chapter 7 1913

The populace might be blind or dumb, the "rattlesnakes" -- the

Thomas Carlyle John Nichol 1863

Closely related to the rattlesnakes are the true moccasins, of which there are two species, one being the cotton-mouth or water-moccasin

Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene 1896

The rattlesnakes are the companions of the sorcerers and watch to meet them and then talk with them.

Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Carl Lumholtz 1886

There were two men called rattlesnakes, their bodies naked and curiously painted, resembling that reptile; each holding a rattle in one hand and a bunch of wild sage in the other.

O-kee-pa, a Religious Ceremony, and Other Customs of the Mandans 1867

The place is known as the rattlesnakes 'den to this day, though there are none there now, I believe.

Queechy 1854

The rattlesnakes were the most dangerous creatures.

Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story Joseph Barker 1840

He likes places exposed, with natural predators such as rattlesnakes and bears and bobcats.

The Killing Hour Gardner, Lisa 2003