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Definition of Cobras
1. cobra [n] - See also: cobra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cobras
Literary usage of Cobras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Awake! America: Object Lessons and Warnings by William Temple Hornaday, American Defense Society (1918)
"... Hatred The cobra is the most vicious, venomous and deadly of all foreign snakes.
The only cobras in America are those that have come to us from abroad ..."
2. An Actor's Tour; Or, Seventy Thousand Miles with Shakespeare by Daniel Edward Bandmann (1885)
"... of pleasure" —The Botanical and Zoological Gardens —"Old Grizzly" —The cobra
de capello — The mongoose—No cobras in Calcutta —A bad joke — The character ..."
3. An Actor's Tour, Or, Seventy Thousand Miles with Shakespeare by Daniel Edward Bandmann (1885)
"... The mongoose — No cobras in Calcutta—A bad joke — The character of the Hindus —
New Year's day in Calcutta — Hindu hospitality—A babu's family bed ..."
4. A Narrative of Travel and Sport in Burmah, Siam and the Malay Peninsula by John Bradley, John A. Lawson (1876)
"cobras and green snakes. — Our servants lost.—A night out and its drawbacks.—Wild
beasts and their fondness for water.—Captain Lacy goes in search of the ..."
5. Letters on Sport in Eastern Bengal by Frank B. Simson (1886)
"Feeds on cobras. Have one fed before me by the snakemen.—The Daboia. The first
I killed. The Frenchman kills one with his hands. ..."
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