The Wersgor stepped from a canebrake where he had waited. From Wordnik.com. [The High Crusade]
Moreau lay face downward in a trampled space in a canebrake. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
Tolteca sauntered past the canebrake, following a side path. From Wordnik.com. [do you ever read writing?] Reference
The canebrake rattler will prefer rocks and piles of dead leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Killing Hour]
Then he let go and moved toward the canebrake, looking back at her. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
I was like to swoon, and had to grab a nearby canebrake rattlesnake for support. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny Jarrett, in Perspective] Reference
As expected, our talkative guides were waiting for us just beyond the canebrake. From Wordnik.com. [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference
He and she stood in a canebrake, screened from the world, and regarded each other. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Worlds]
I could see the bream starting to feed along the edge of the lilies and the flooded canebrake. From Wordnik.com. [Heaven’s Prisoners] Reference
She struck for the canebrake, then for the river, and to conceal her trail resolved to descend it. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
The trusties carried the boy between them back on the sandy flat and laid him at the edge of the canebrake. From Wordnik.com. [TWO FOR TEXAS] Reference
Pa stole her out and one night a small panther smelled them and come on a log up over where they slept in a canebrake. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1] Reference
This pathway ran up hill, across another open space covered with white incrustation, and plunged into a canebrake again. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
His voice carried to the Rowra, who had just emerged from the canebrake with Bagheera on one side and Baloo on the other. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
On the seventh evening of their captivity, they encamped in a thick canebrake, and having built a large fire, lay down to rest. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer] Reference
Tangles as tangled in him as any canebrake or swamp. From Wordnik.com. [The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman] Reference
Now and then they passed thickets of canebrake, and once, at the side of. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky] Reference
The whole party was concealed in a dense canebrake which fringed the stream. From Wordnik.com. [David Crockett] Reference
He reloaded his rifle, running, and kept a wary eye as he passed into the canebrake. From Wordnik.com. [The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods] Reference
The next morning early he would get a horse out of the canebrake and bring home his game. From Wordnik.com. [The Crayon Papers] Reference
It was so still in the canebrake that the birds over the head of the watcher began to sing. From Wordnik.com. [The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness] Reference
While descending the river, we saw a canoe, containing two men, push out from a thick canebrake. From Wordnik.com. [My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field] Reference
The grass was high and thick and the canebrake was so dense that passage through it seemed impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky] Reference
A narrow and unfrequented path through the close and sultry canebrake conducts us to a wretched hovel. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Then, stretching his muscles a little, to remove all stiffness or soreness he emerged from the canebrake. From Wordnik.com. [The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods] Reference
British encampment was formed near the creek, on a piece of open ground flanked on two sides by a canebrake. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Of Georgia] Reference
While roving carelessly from canebrake to canebrake, they were suddenly alarmed by the appearance of a party of. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes and Hunters of the West Comprising Sketches and Adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson, &c.] Reference
Another deer, this time obviously started up by himself, sprang from the canebrake and darted away in the woods. From Wordnik.com. [The Rock of Chickamauga A Story of the Western Crisis] Reference
They led their horses into an adjoining canebrake, unloaded them, and regained the White Oak Spring fort before daylight. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes and Hunters of the West Comprising Sketches and Adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson, &c.] Reference
Sometimes he slept in the canebrake; sometimes he laid himself by the side of a stream; sometimes in the caves of the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Daniel Boone: the Kentucky rifleman] Reference
Old Dominion University professor Alan Savitzky says canebrake rattlesnakes are docile towards humans and won't bite unprovoked. From Wordnik.com. [WHSV - HomePage - Headlines] Reference
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