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Definition of Snakeskins
1. snakeskin [n] - See also: snakeskin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snakeskins
Literary usage of Snakeskins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1894)
"However, there were some things I was much pleased with, remarkable snakeskins
and a medal of William Penn; we also viewed the books of paintings and other ..."
2. Wagner and His Works: The Story of His Life, with Critical Comments by Henry Theophilus Finck (1893)
"She is arrayed in a short dress, held together by a girdle of snakeskins; her
black hair flows in disorder over her shoulders; her complexion is dark brown, ..."
3. Speeches, Correspondence, Etc., of the Late Daniel S. Dickinson of New York by John R. Dickinson, Daniel Stevens Dickinson (1867)
"As spring opens we shall see many who nave boasted of their designation of
copperhead crawling quietly oat their political snakeskins, and taking sides with ..."
4. All Adventure: Allan's Wife/Marie by H. Rider Haggard (2001)
"Moreover they were dressed in all the paraphernalia of their craft, snakeskins,
fish- bladders, and I know not what beside, while round their necks hung ..."
5. Sharp Eyes: A Rambler's Calendar of [fifty-two] Weeks Among Insects, Birds by William Hamilton Gibson (1900)
"Once, when a boy, while investigating a woodpecker's den in a willow-tree, I
pulled from the bottom a handful of snakeskins. Knowing the habits of snakes in ..."
6. Adventure Guide to the Chesapeake Bay by Barbara Radcliffe Rogers, Stillman Rogers (2000)
"The Visitors Center has displays including a touch box with feathers, pinecones,
snakeskins, turtle shells and other things found at the center. ..."
7. The Bird Book by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm (1901)
"Sometimes a great-crested flycatcher will build her nest, wreathed with snakeskins,
in a hole in a tree, or an olive-sided flycatcher will mount guard over ..."
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