Moccasin Train" wind around the sides to make the ascent more easy.
The flames spread with fearful rapidity, causing consternation and alarm, and inducing the moccasintrain to move at a lively gait.
Well, he wasn't looking at no moccasin flower when I seed him," Mandy persisted.
You know I said I'd come up here and get those moccasin flowers for you this morning.
That's the pink moccasin flower," Johnnie told him.
He'd never seen a pink moccasin flower, and I gave him the one I had and told him where it grew.
And that morning on the mountain, when we got the moccasin flowers," the girl's voice took up the theme.
The thing she held in her hand was a blossom of the pink moccasin flower, carefully pressed, as though for the pages of a herbarium; The bit of paper to which it was attached was crumpled and discoloured.
There, growing and blowing beside the cool thread of water which trickled from the spring, was a stately pink moccasin flower.
The moccasin will make no mark here that the sun will not wipe out.
After a moment of lying with closed eyes, he sat up and with his knife began to cut away the moccasin from the wounded limb.
A broken trailer of grapevine, a pine cone that had been crushed under foot, the print of a moccasin on a bit of muddy ground told them that they had indeed recovered the long lost trail.
You must have pretty good eyes to find a moccasintrack in the dark," laughed Ned.
Well, to begin with, before I found the moccasin track I noticed that there was room to walk along by the side of the stream.
I knew there must be some way out, for I found a moccasin track down there in the sand before I turned in last night.
She also maintained lengthy newspaper controversies with parties in Manitoba, who claimed the prior right of that province to the moccasin flower, all of whom she vanquished.
Wild Lady Slipper, or Moccasin Flower (Cypripedium) was designated as the state flower or floral emblem of the State of Minnesota.
That the contest was a very spirited one can be judged from the fact that Mrs. Hunt sent out in her district at least ten thousand tickets, with indications of her choice of the moccasin flower.
Covered with, or wearing, a moccasin or moccasins.
There was a cloud about the summit of the mountain, and at no time during the day was the top of the mountain clearly visible from Moccasin Point.
The following are a few of the messages sent in cipher from the signal station onMoccasin Point to the station on Cameron Hill:-- Oct.
The firing from Lookout Mountain though frequent did little damage on Moccasin Point, the shells either falling short or going over our heads into the Tennessee river.
It also held Moccasin Point, the river being crossed by a pontoon bridge, and the north side of the river to Bridgeport, from whence it received its supplies by wagon road.
Hooker was greatly assisted by the batteries on Moccasin Point, which swept the northern face of the mountain, pouring shot and shell into the enemy's lines about the Craven house and the Summertown road.
Troops which had marched across Moccasin Point from Chattanooga were hurried across the river in the boats, and in a short time the defenses were strong enough to hold the new pontoon bridge, which was speedily completed.
Cruft's troops charged the last line of intrenchments near the Craven house, the sun shone out for a few minutes and the battle flags of both sides could be plainly seen from Moccasin Point.
All the guns on Moccasin Point now opened a destructive fire.
The bite of the water-moccasin is exceedingly venomous, and it is considered more poisonous than that of the rattlesnake, which warns man of his approach by sounding his rattle.
Eagerly searching for any tokens of the lost ones, they soon traced in the light soil of the island the imprint of the moccasin of the savage, but looked in vain for any footprint of civilized man.
The moccasin does not, like the rattlesnake, wait to be attacked, but assumes the offensive whenever opportunity offers, striking with its fangs at every animated object in its vicinity.
The water-moccasin is about two feet in length, and has a circumference of five or six inches.
The exact shape of the moccasin and its decoration varies with the tribe.
The moccasin is a real Indian invention, and it bears an Indian name.
Sometimes the women fell down, for a rawhide moccasin soaked soft in water was not a very comfortable or convenient shoe, however it might be adapted to hot, dry sands.
We were some seven or eight miles along the road when I stopped to fix my moccasin while Rogers went slowly along.
So secretly had the affair been managed, that not a trace of her was ever discovered; and all that was known of the presence of the Indians, was, that a few moccasin tracks were seen in the vicinity of the house.
On the following day I observed that moccasin tracks were plenty at the spring where they supposed I would go into camp, from which it is apparent that they believed me verdant in border warfare.
Lookout Mountain, with its rebel flags and batteries, stood out boldly, and an occasional shot fired toward Wauhatchee or Moccasin Point gave life to the scene.
Here the keen eye of Tim at once detected moccasin prints, and he saw that the savage had departed with his prize.
The ground was trampled and torn, as if there had been a violent struggle; and, inexperienced as were his eyes, he detected the unmistakable impress of a moccasin upon the soft earth, and in the grass.
It was the track of a white man's moccasin with the iron nails showing, and it was going away from the scene of action.
The frightened Indian ponies swarmed out of one end of the cut, but were soon brought back and herded together in the sagebrush by the moccasin boys of the Yellow-Eyes.
I'd as soon eat a hawk in winter or dine on slices of fried spruce-gum, for truly there is more nourishment in a moccasin than in these ignoble birds dressed up like toothsome partridges.
One moccasin looks like another, and all redskins smell like foxes.
The silent tread of the moccasin was in my favour, as also the dark shadowy foliage that stretched overhead, hiding the sky from my view.
The moccasin is a larger, heavier snake than the copperhead, and a dweller in the sluggish rivers and swamps of the Gulf States and northward to North Carolina and Kentucky.
This upland moccasin is named in science Ancistrodon contortrix; its brother species, the water moccasin, is A.
The harmless water snake is more slender than the deadly moccasin and may be told by the red spots on the abdomen; the undersurface of the poisonous snake is straw color, with black or gray spots on younger individuals, but has no red spots.
The water snake has the plates on the underside of the tail in two rows, the moccasin in a single row.
Pretty soon a battery opened on what is called Moccasin point, on the north side of the river, and replied to Lookout.
Lookout throws his missiles too high and Moccasin too low, so that usually the only loss sustained by either is in ammunition.
Later in the day Moccasin and Lookout got into an angry discussion which lasted two hours.
It was, in substance, that he had once seen a moccasin spring upon a catfish in a shallow lagoon of the swamp and promptly get "whipped.
I reckon you boys wouldn't believe me if I was to tell you I saw a catfish whip a moccasin in h-yer one time.
That moccasin reared mightily and was as lively a snake as you ever laid eyes on," Buck declared with a laugh, "but it bit off more'n it could chaw that time.
The water moccasin (Ancistrodon piscivorus) is usually found in or near water.
Defn: A division of serpents which includes the true vipers of the Old World and the rattlesnakes and moccasin snakes of America; -- called also Viperina.
Defn: Covered with, or wearing, a moccasin or moccasins.
I'll bet he never had any more feelings or sentiments in his life than a moccasin snake.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moccasin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
