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Definition of Mambas
1. mamba [n] - See also: mamba
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mambas
Literary usage of Mambas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the by Henry Anderson Bryden (1893)
"The darker varieties of this cobra are usually called black mambas. ... I have
had no experience of the dreaded mambas of Natal (green or black), ..."
2. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1898)
""Snakes? yes! I've seen plenty of them. All sorts of vicious venomous brutes in
South Africa, ' mambas ' and ' cobras'—' rhin- ..."
3. Wild Game in Zambezia by Reginald Charles Fulke Maugham (1914)
"The mambas which I have seen and killed in Zambezia were, on the average, ...
mambas travel through the leafy branches at an astonishingly rapid pace; ..."
4. Contested Skies: Trans-Australia Airlines Australian Airlines 1946-1992 by John Gunn (1999)
"... (with four Armstrong Siddeley Mamba turbo- props) as well as in a C47 fitted
with two mambas and an Avro Lancastrian, using two Rolls-Royce Avon jets. ..."
5. Zululand and Cetewayo: Containing an Account of Zulu Customs, Manners, and by Walter Robert Ludlow (1882)
"My slumbers were very much disturbed by visions of mambas of all colours .and of
bolting horses, and before sunrise I was up scouring the veldt with my ..."
6. On Safari: Big Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-life by Abel Chapman (1908)
"These mambas appeared to be about 10 or 12 ft. long, of which one-third is carried
erect, 1 An example of the way in which the ..."
7. Modern Language Teaching (1908)
"... this is not pointless, as » there are black mambas and green mam bas. In Natal
they are generally spoken of as mambas, not puff-adders. ..."
8. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1904)
"85, but on this point testimony varies ; MS. notes penes me make him enter a
small snake), other chiefs, mambas ; lesser fry, small snakes ; and women, ..."
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