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Usage examples of anaconda.

She imagined the smell of the rain forest and the chatter of monkeys, the rustle of agoutis, the slither of anacondas, the screech of macaws.

After a minute of fruitless searching, she told herself the animal had probably been a caiman, or one of a hundred large species of fish that inhabited the rivers of the Amazon, but least likely an anaconda.

I am a caiman, an anaconda, a jaguar shaman, but never a monkey shaman.

But this was her largest whip, the one that looked like a melanistic anaconda, something long enough and thick enough to crush your life out.

Anaconda Copper bought out all the other small mills and set up their big Bonner unit, obviously a lot more efficient than these little one-saw outfits up in the sticks, the Hellmouth Finns stuck.

Anaconda offered to buy his Hellmouth mill outright, but Swenson was too stubborn to give in.

But he had an extravagantly accurate idea of what the table wanted to hear so he talked on for his father: the beheading of the Filipino thug, a typhoon off the Marshall Islands, an anaconda he bought while drunk in Recife that wound itself so tightly around the mast that it could not be detached until they offered it a piglet, the beauty of some of the horses he left in care of his crew hands in Cuba, and how some of the citizens in Singapore eat dogs, which shocked everyone at the table except One Stab who asked Tristan about Africa.

He wrenched with all his strength at the bar on his right arm, but the swooper coil encircling his upper torso was as unyielding as an anaconda.

She imagined the smell of the rain forest and the chatter of monkeys, the rustle of agoutis, the slither of anacondas, the screech of macaws.

Chainer impulsively created two huge saber-toothed anacondas and set them on one another.

He dismissed the two anacondas, touched the polished marble wall to ground himself, and replied.

A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-color, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach.

But one day, when Casson fired at an anaconda that was darting at Bomba, the gun burst and laid Casson on his back, while the wounded anaconda retreated.

He wants them sewed into sacks with knots of anacondas, made to eat ground glass till their buttholes bleed, shackled to the rear bumpers of monster trucks and driven fast over cobblestones.

What iguanas and anacondas, what snoozing geckos languished there, presided over, perhaps, by a heraldic basilisk, a rampant cockatrice!