"Anaconda" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... It was a huge anaconda, its body as thick as a man's leg, lying coiled up in a circle; its flat, ugly head reposing in the middle. He came a bit nearer. "Hideous!" was all he said. And then his eyes was fixed on the eyes of the animal—the lidless eyes, with their perpetual glassy ...
— Macleod of Dare • William Black
... "You old anaconda, you were born with an appetite. You started eating boiled dumplings when ...
— Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School - The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls • Jessie Graham Flower
... country might wave forever in the air—do you tell me that he went from that field, where he lost his life in defense of the liberties of men, to an eternal hell? I tell you it is infamous!—and such a doctrine as that would tarnish the reputation of a hyena and smirch the fair fame of an anaconda. ...
— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll
... Call again, and bring an anaconda, and a man-eating tiger," and he went and scraped up ...
— Peck's Bad Boy With the Cowboys • Hon. Geo. W. Peck
... opportunity offers. The huge caymans and crocodiles of the Amazon are far more dangerous, and the colonel knew of repeated instances where men, women and children had become their victims. Once while dynamiting a stream for fish for his starving party he partially stunned a giant anaconda, which he killed as it crept slowly off. He said that it was of a size that no other anaconda he had ever seen even approached, and that in his opinion such a brute if hungry would readily attack a full-grown man. Twice smaller anacondas had attacked his dogs; one was carried under water—for ...
— Through the Brazilian Wilderness • Theodore Roosevelt
... millions to buy out his partners on the basis of a valuation of the "ore in sight," then in supreme ownership himself reap untold profits out of the milling of the plethoric veins he had been so careful to leave unworked. The immense natural endowments of the Anaconda rendered this easy enough, for even the lean veins "in sight" contained a vast store of copper and gold ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson
... falling across a great fragment of shattered glass, which cut open his stomach and let out the greater part of his entrails to the light of day. The remaining alligator became involved in a controversy with an anaconda, and joined the melee in the centre of ...
— A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career. Life of Hon. Phineas T. • Joel Benton
... take you back home, Dele," said Mr. Dougherty, "and then I'll drop back up to Seltzer's with the boys. You can have swell chuck to-night if you want it. I made a winning on Anaconda yesterday; so you can go as far as ...
— The Voice of the City • O. Henry
... cowboy, that he, in turn, began, to ooze information at every pore. Steve Thompson was his name; miner of Butte, Montana. He had, after years of struggle and defeat, made a lucky strike. He had bonded his mine to New York parties—the Copper-bottom, just to the left of the High Line Trail from Anaconda to Philipsburgh; receiving $10,000 down for a quarter interest, giving option on two-thirds remainder for $50,000, if, after six months' development work, the mine justified its promise. It had proved all his fancy painted it; he was on ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... was. It made me so uncomfortable to see them all leaning back waiting for me, after their plates had been whisked away, that I took to bolting the rest of my food, and by the time we'd got rid of nine courses in about half an hour I felt qualified to write the autobiography of an anaconda. ...
— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... of wanting an anaconda tickled me so, I couldn't help it. I dare say you'd have got me one if I had asked for it, you are ...
— Under the Lilacs • Louisa May Alcott |
