He adds, "The Indians often find enormous
boas, which they call Uji or water serpents, in the same lethargic state.
It gladdened him --a gladness with a sigh breathing through it--to see the stream of ladies, gliding along the slippery sidewalks, with their red cheeks set off by quilted hoods,
boas, and sable capes, like roses amidst a new kind of foliage.
The great, ugly head of the
boa reared itself up from the coils which it had, with the quickness of thought, thrown about the man between the two trees.
extending it upon the forecastle deck, he now proceeds cylindrically to remove its dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a
boa. This done he turns the pelt inside out, like a pantaloon leg; gives it a good stretching, so as almost to double its diameter; and at last hangs it, well spread, in the rigging, to dry.
She seemed all strings and bell-pulls--ribbons, chains, bead necklaces that clinked and caught--and a
boa of azure feathers hung round her neck, with the ends uneven.
And then they inspect the penny peep-show--at least Tom does-- while old Benjy stands outside and gossips and walks up the steps, and enters the mysterious doors of the pink-eyed lady and the Irish giant, who do not by any means come up to their pictures; and the
boa will not swallow his rabbit, but there the rabbit is waiting to be swallowed; and what can you expect for tuppence?
She looked very smart in her new hat, a large black straw with a great many inexpensive flowers on it; and round her neck floated a long
boa of imitation swansdown.
The third unbeliever was Monsieur Le Quoi, who merely whispered to the sheriff, that the corps was one of the finest he had ever seen second only to the Mousquetaires of Le
Boa Louis!
One day he encountered an ambitious statesman, and gravely inquired after the welfare of his
boa constrictor; for of that species, Roderick affirmed, this gentleman's serpent must needs be, since its appetite was enormous enough to devour the whole country and constitution.
There was Mrs Lenville, in a very limp bonnet and veil, decidedly in that way in which she would wish to be if she truly loved Mr Lenville; there was Miss Gazingi, with an imitation ermine
boa tied in a loose knot round her neck, flogging Mr Crummles, junior, with both ends, in fun.
Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite there stood a large woman with a heavy fur
boa round her neck, and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her ear.
A big black hat with a wintry feather completed a headdress as unseasonable as my skating skirt and feather
boa; of course, the good lady had all.