It tasted like frozen velvet flavoured with strawberries, and I should have loved to be an ostrich or an anaconda so that the sensation might have lasted longer.
"Lady-Betty-Across-the-Water"
Lowell, Orson
"We are going," Driscoll now informed his companions, "to drop in on Murgie-the hospitable old anaconda."
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
Nicias, in the Peloponnesian war, whose name means Winfield, has nothing in common with General Scott, whose plan of putting down the rebellion, the "anaconda Plan," as it was called, bears some resemblance to the scheme of Demosthenes, the Athenian general, for quelling the Peloponnese.
"The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915"
Basil L. Gildersleeve