Sentence: After so long a passage, with our port almost in sight, and our voyage nearly ended, to be compelled to remain longer in our close prison, and creep like a Wounded snake, dragging its slow length along, winding, day after day, through the sinuosities of this sluggish Mississippi, was enough to make us shipwearied wretches verily, To weep our spirits from our eyes.
Combination: a Wounded snake (root: snake, modifier: wound)
Property: struggle
Property type: emergent