A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
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The man writhed like a trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips.
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1892, Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates[1]:
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After dark the train is a lighted snake, as, even when the passengers' lights are out, each carriage has a side-light in the middle just under the eaves.
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1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263: