Usage examples (7)

• It was when out hunting these animals one day that I saw a fine specimen of the bright-green whip-snake.
• Of the venomous species, there are the golden snake, the whip-snake, and the tamagas -- the bite of which is considered deadly.
• Another snake of the same length is a handsome green whip-snake, graceful in its movements, but ferocious and aggressive in its habits, although quite harmless.
• I remember a terrible fright a large picnic party, at which I assisted, was thrown into while lunching in the garden of a villa, almost in the town of Rio, by a lady jumping up...