It was when out hunting these animals one day that I saw a fine specimen of the bright-green whip-snake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure] Reference

Of the venomous species, there are the golden snake, the whip-snake, and the tamagas -- the bite of which is considered deadly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty] Reference

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 from her seat with a deadly whip-snake hanging on her dress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha] Reference

America, on first seeing a whip-snake rapidly approaching, will, with sensations of alarm, urge on their steeds to escape -- for it appears fully capable of springing up and inflicting mortal injury; but, from having no fangs, it is unable to harm any one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

The most venomous of Australian snakes are the death-adder, fortunately a very sluggish variety; the tiger-snake, a most fierce serpent, which, unlike other snakes, will actually turn and pursue a man if it is wounded or angered; the black snake, a handsome creature with a vivid scarlet belly; and the whip-snake, a long, thin reptile, which may be easily mistaken for a bit of stick, and is sometimes picked up by children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeps At Many Lands: Australia] Reference

The only dangerous species of serpent is the whip-snake, so called from its exactly resembling the lash of a whip, in length, thinness, pliability, and whiteness; but even the bite of this is not mortal) except from very great neglect, The most beautiful tree, c rather group of trees, all to nothing, is the bamboo, both from its Verdure and from its elegance of form: as to the-cotton-tree it answers no purpose, either of ornament or utility; or, rather it is not suffered to answer any, since it is forbidden by law to export its down, lest it should hurt the fur trade in the manufacture of hats: its only present use is to furnish the negroes, with canoes, which are hollowed out of its immense trunks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies] Reference