Behind the glass, all sorts of lizards and snakes were crawling and slithering over bits of wood and stone. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

If no animals, such as centipedes, snails, birds, or snakes, have crossed them, they are fresh. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A vine tattoo snakes down her neck and disappears into her corseted shirt. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Had she imagined that his tongue darted in and out, like that of a snake, when he hissed the word? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The gaping holes in the hedges had closed up, and green branches snaked across to meet each other. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bandages coil on the floor like red-dotted albino snakes, exposing the grandmother’s ankle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the earth, subway lines snake up and around Central Park. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

There are ants, grubs and beetles, frogs and toads, garter snakes, even salamanders if we’re lucky. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gripping my obsidian pendant, I wonder if Lita will watch the fire snake through the smoky glass, when he finally reunites with his mother. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

This was a woods for looming bears, dangling snakes, wolves with laser-red eyes, strange noises, sudden terrors—a place of “standing night,” as Thoreau neatly and nervously put it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ben and Asta lay down too, both snakes, each one trying to be longer. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The dancers rushed forward, picked up the snakes and ran out of the square. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear for a fact that places that have snakes galore have no fleas. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Birds, some snakes, any beast that could find higher ground ahead of the rising tide. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The snakes were still twisting and turning in his hands. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The hair on the back of my neck stood up and the wind was snaking all around and the weird nature sounds made me wonder what else was nearby. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The elders agreed that this was a very good way of choosing a new chief, although they doubted if anybody would be brave enough to try to capture that great snake. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I still had the snake in my fist. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at darkest midnight when all was silent in the house two great snakes came crawling into the nursery. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely the snake must pass this way soon! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Just before he hit the cart, the snake released his horn and dropped to the ground. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We snaked our way among the merchants and the beggars, wandered through narrow alleys cramped with rows of tiny, tightly packed stalls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nelson got so mad at me for saying snake when it was dark, because he says after the sun goes down a snake can hear you calling its name and it’ll come a-running. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking it, Riddle said, “I can speak to snakes. I found out when we’ve been to the country on trips — they find me, they whisper to me. Is that normal for a wizard?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The construction had come a little further along on this floor; half-finished plaster dividers rose up between the metal beams, and electrical wiring snaked alongside the ceiling pipes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The snake wrangler was using a false husky tone—the voice of a boy trying to sound like a grownup. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And miraculously — inexplicably — the snake slumped to the floor, docile as a thick, black garden hose, its eyes now on Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Then you noticed that after I spoke to it, the snake backed off?” said Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The bigger boys tossed wet dirt balls at each other, while the younger ones made mud snakes and threw them at the girls. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She reminded him of a snake coiled up with no one to bite. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking it might be a snake—for mambas like to hide in such trees—he leapt to his feet and gazed into the branches of the tree. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The snake hissed, flames billowing from its mouth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He doubled over, shuddering and retching, as a dozen fiery snakes seemed to work their way down his esophagus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She gyrates that thing over and over like a snake. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

After that, I was no longer able to make snakes stop in their tracks until I went by. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

At the prefecture, a queue for gasoline coupons snakes out the door and around the block. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Inside were the two wedding crowns made from rope and, coiled like snakes, the two long braids of hair, each tied with a crumbling black ribbon. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A painted river snaked its way along one wall, and carved condors soared toward the roof. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In the old days, people had carried around these little chunks of wild parsnip root to protect themselves from poisonous snakes, and so what if rattlesnakes had always been as rare as money in Milagro? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I introduced Zion to Josephine and Henry, shot a rubber snake at the shooting range, and even stuck my face through a wooden painting of a cactus so Zion could take a picture. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Bothersome horned snakes that ate anything they could get their mouths around—including, local gossip said, small children. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Derby raised his head, called Campbell a snake. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another snaked itself out of the bushes and curled around his foot. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The snakes turned their heads enquiringly towards the children. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

As she was almost past the island, she spied a giant fig tree with long roots snaking down to the water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The huge tail snaked out and caressed the fox. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Down snaked a ladder that was outlined in pretty lights like a Ferris wheel. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked over at him, felt the snake constrict again, and could only say, “Shut up.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Not even the stream southeast of us, snaking a path over and between fallen logs, stones, and rocks. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The sail had come to life again, billowing, emptying, then billowing again, the red stripes on the canvas wriggling like snakes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It seems alive, like a snake or spider I’ve decided to keep as a pet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then he lifted his other foot and stomped again, trying to crush the snake’s head. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The tiger stood off, his snarling head writhing like a snake and all his claws extended, swiping at the sword. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He opened it, peered inside suspiciously as if he thought it might contain a snake or something else that might bite, then reached in and brought out the book. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He bared his teeth, but then the snake was gone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mostly, however, she had felt relief: that she could slide out of this life and begin anew, like a snake shedding its skin. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She looked down at herself, thinking a snake or a poisonous spider had crawled over her legS- “Nothin,” the woman said. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A horsehair rope will keep snakes away from a campfire. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It kinda reminded me of a snake shedding its skin, but there wasn't nothing new underneath. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She positioned what looked like a smallish white tub between the snake’s back teeth. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Apparently, he would carefully open a stuff sack and it would fly out, like joke snakes from a can. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Until they make amends, bad people will come back in the next life as snakes, slugs, or worms. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snakes slithered and the insects buzzed and the fish jumped up from the river. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She lay under the faded bedding like a rag doll losing its stuffing, her hair a wild collection of snakes on the pillow, her cornflower blue eyes poisoned with streaks of yellow and red. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

More and more snake people joined their procession. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

One night, when the odor was especially dangerous, Pax had chewed through the wire, as if killing a snake. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The moon was bright over the mountains and sent a shimmering glow across the yard, making shadows that snaked around the dogwood tree and crept along the garden fence. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He took his horse by the bridle and walked him to the gate and the icy tunnel that snaked beneath the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Baby snakes all over the place, though, hiding. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will had told her about the snake dæmon, and she had stopped still in the street, tormented again by that half-memory. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as soon as he said it, Will realized that the snake he’d seen concealed in the man’s sleeve was a dæmon too, and that Sir Charles must come from Lyra’s world. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though invisible snakes were rippling beneath the skin and forcing its arms and legs to move in a ceaseless bid for freedom. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had started to turn, to flee, when a giant noose snaked through the air, cast by one of the warriors. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It snaked out in all directions, forming a brilliant flash that burned through the wallpaper and melted the paint underneath. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A snake flickered along the bank and slid into the water. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

But then out came that little dark tongue point, as quick as a snake’s, flick-moisten, and she shook her head. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t move, Potter,” said Snape lazily, clearly enjoying the sight of Harry standing motionless, eye to eye with the angry snake. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

So “fire” meant longer and longer forays into the forest, stealing fallen branches from under the blunt-eyed gaze of snakes, just for one single bucket of drinkable water. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he was wildly excited and shouting with laughter as the tiddlywinks climbed hopefully up the ladders and then came slithering down the snakes again, almost back to the starting point. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

His father explained to Joe what poison was and warned him to always stay away from this kind of snake. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the cages were open and the snakes were out—some curled lazily into great scaly knots, others slipping gently about the floor. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

A glimpse of red hair sends me snaking through the crowd. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mother lies on her side, her face next to mine, taking small sips of air each time the van fishtails, then holding her breath as Dad corrects and it snakes back into the lane. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Up ahead, a snake stopped and raised its head alertly; the tongue slid in and out and then stopped when it located him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The snake rustled on the filthy, cluttered floor, and he had killed the boy, and yet he was the boy.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Unlike Fahim, he reached into it with painstaking care, sweat gathering on his upper lip as his fingers hovered over the snakes’ knotted bodies. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Flowers, greens, and buckets forgotten, we ran across the prairie, joined at the hands and wobbling like an unwieldy snake. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I would keep my eyes out for snakes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With that, I shed the last of my nervousness like a snake’s skin. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She takes the bowl and pours the venom away, and while she is gone, the snake’s poison falls onto Loki’s face and into his eyes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Chet wasn’t so sure how his parents would feel about keeping a snake in the house. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The snake had once escaped from his cage and disappeared for a few days. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, of course, there are poisonous snakes—seven different kinds. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It twisted like a snake, and he took hold of it with both hands and smiled at Rebecca and put it round his neck. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A snake slithered past my shoe and disappeared into the grass. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had seemed that they were hurtling down a straight line; actually, though, they were snaking their way through traffic. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snake looked angry that a short boy should have come to disturb him, and with a sudden sliding it shot out and darted towards the boy’s feet. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She danced around the one-room house, shaking and shaking that snake, until the hay of the beds was scattered and the stone circle of the fire was ruined and the adder’s back was broken. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then they sashayed past us, the one wearing Vonetta’s watch snaking her wrist around and around like a baton twirler, except there was no baton. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She remembers a story she read once about Guam, about how brown snakes were introduced by Americans. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside in the dark, the snake monsters restlessly patrolled the hillside, spewing fire and poisoning the grass. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Two weeks after her burial, Rose’s husband arrived loaded with ingots of gold for the children, two-dollar pieces for the women and snake oil for the men. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Packard snakes along, following the tire tracks of other rumrunners. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t much like touching snakes, but I picked up the pad and the stylus again. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat snaked down her chest while Diana looked at her as if she already knew why Cas was here. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We snake through a labyrinth of old furniture, car scraps, and oddly shaped metal sculptures that Annie welded together. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The snake heads snapped at it from different angles. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A tune that gradually snaked upwards in its first half might gradually snake downwards in its second. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Instead of backing down, the smaller snake shows its fangs too. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“My bad. Didn’t know I liked snakes. Reptiles. Lizards are like snakes’ cousins.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Watch out for snakes,” my mother said, but her voice was so happy, I knew she wasn’t thinking about snakes. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They shook and rattled, their lower bodies slithering like snakes while their cuffs snapped and their collar heads clacked. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The snake stared, its tongue a thin, quick flame. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The rock was flat, almost like a platform, and was overhung by a large fig with roots snaking down on either side. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind saw a clean and pressed uniform, with a nest of wicked snakes sprouting out of his neck, or a skull with hollow black eyes, smoking a cigarette. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He never ventured with his hands, never touched an insect or carried a snake about. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know him, yet I am certain he is the fattest, slimiest snake on earth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrow and a smooth, tight voice snakes out, It is always why with you. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They snake between dusty boxes, overwhelm a sawhorse; he leads her through a thicket of them to what feels like an upholstered piano bench at the far end, and helps her sit. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I dove down and grabbed the snake by the tail and ripped it from Margo’s leg and threw it into the moat. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She certainly wouldn’t have had the guts to sing show tunes to the snake people under Athens. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Lola was convinced the woods teemed with snakes, but Virgil was certain that he could find five stones here. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Cherry fixed his steel-cold eyes on mine, and like a snake, his eyes never blinked, never moved. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes Avery would find a little grass snake in the hay, and would add it to the other things in his pocket. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

In a corner, hoses lay coiled like a family of dormant snakes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He slid in graceful curves past the bowing snakes and the Brown Bear, towards Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Too cold for snakes at the moment!” whispered Dustfinger from his hiding place. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The people let out a great sigh when they saw the snake arrive and immediately the young men pinned it to the ground with sticks. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He brought out three snakes that seemed larger than the rest, with white markings around their necks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Then Pa got snake bite .. “And Jesse ate the poison toadstools .. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tear snakes down her face, and for a second, I see through her eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Plumes of grey smoke snaked up from the rebuilt kitchens and reroofed barracks keep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You are. You’re worse than sneaky. You’re like a snake. A snake with an Italian uniform: with a cape around your neck.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In summer there were snakes, dangerous to Mrs. Frisby, but there was no need to worry about them in winter. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Two dracaenae slithered in—snake women with double serpent trunks instead of legs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then there’s the malaria, and the new-monia and the snakes, plus the mosquitoes and the flies and their maggots—all joinin’ us to keep us company while we sweat. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adding insult to injury, the arrogant aloof sheepherder never carried a little chunk of osha in his pants pocket to ward off poisonous snakes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s clearly stolen the snake from my room. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Here we are among fungi and snakes. It’s clear Crystal is making decisions for Alice.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you guys getting divorced? Jimmy L’s parents got a divorce. Then they let him get a pet snake.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“We could fall through the floor and end up in the cellar—with the snakes.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You think there might be snakes out here now?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

You wondered whether the snake was going to wake up while you were eating dinner. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to stand on the porch and shoot the snakes from a distance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A dusty mounted trophy on the wall looked like a giant snake’s head, but with horns and a full set of sharks teeth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“They look like giant snakes with two legs.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

His little phosphor LED showed the dust snake slither where the copper cables had gone before him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When he extended the antenna, two creatures began writhing around it—green snakes, no bigger than earthworms. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger stopped as suddenly as if a snake had bitten him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But when Emma mentioned Miss Wren to the girl, she gave us a hard stare and her snake hissed and showed its fangs, and we moved on. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The giants and snake women were already recovering from their surprise. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Breathing hard, bent over Tessie with trembling concentration, he moved the clarinet in circles, like a snake charmer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sosie snaked an arm around Jennifer’s waist and bent her side to side as if they were a robot couple taking a turn around some factory dance floor. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The instant Curly kicked open the door, he realized there was no poisonous snake in the bathroom, no cause for mortal alarm. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He traced it back into the canyon with his eyes; the gray banks cut a winding track, its curves and twists the print of a snake’s belly across the sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it is not the relative insubstantiality of her clothing that causes Marco to stare, but the tattoo that snakes across her skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Guilt snaked up my spine and coiled around my throat. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She gave a bit of a sigh, and the corners of her lips quivered, like the very tip of a snake’s tongue. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

His hands rasp like a snake’s coils as he mbs them together. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Guards, though, did not care if Shin and his friends ate rats, frogs, snakes, and insects. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe Athena’s eyes shot lasers, or the snake behind her shield could spit poison. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

First: The “snake” was actually a chain-like creature with a metal shackle for a head. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The snake woman turned to her husband, her cobra hood flaring. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the class filed out, Valencia stayed behind, studying the snake, and no one even told her to move. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Thus, the snake, that custodian of the diamond-bearing tree, never finished devouring him but was itself always devoured. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it isn’t at all surprising, at least to Axel, that Byrd’s flower beds filled with slugs and sunlight are happy spots for the garter snakes. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She held the cane in her hand like a swamp man handling a snake and saw the ornament at its tip. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Contagion, why, this was worse than snakes, since you couldn’t see it coming! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rolled snake eyes and moved up two measly desks. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“I was on a snake hunt practically all day,” he said. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A snake hanging out of the ceiling was exactly the sort of thing my mind would cook up. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I’m glad that old snake didn’t kill me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the alley mouth, I could see the cobblestone street undulate and twist like a red-backed snake. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biddy waggle her fingers closer, and Mama Duck hiss through the hole in her beak and struck her head out like a snake trying to bite Biddy’s fingers. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Like sea things retreating with the ocean’s tide, water snakes and muskrats went back to the green areas along ditches and in the dampest vegas. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no need to pretend these stone snakes were real; their eyes looked strangely alive. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Capricorn’s voice was so sharp that Darius almost dropped the casket of snakes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Frodo waited, like a bird at the approach of a snake, unable to move. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Slick as a snake in a barrel of butter,” said Wednesday. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I smile and lean in to him, closer, closer, snaking my left hand around his waist. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the waist down, they had double snake trunks instead of legs. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the boy began to walk round the writhing heap of snakes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Think of all the alligators and snakes, not to mention heat worse than we had here, and people had been known to fry not just eggs but bacon and sausage on South Carolina sidewalks. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking he’d been spooked by a snake in the grass, I whispered, “What do you see?” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny knew from books what snakes could do, what the poison in their fangs could do. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The cold inside me snaked down to my feet and up around my neck. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what a Conversat is but I’m relieved to be going to the building, where there are mice and snakes and experiments and no girls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede tried to stuff down the warmth that flared in her when Taisin’s body had snaked past hers, and she began to haul out handfuls of twigs, handing them to Taisin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It stretches behind us like a giant snake, the linked cars jiggling and bending as it rounds a curve. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The inside walls would be beautifully painted and hung with tapestries, and every cross-timber or falcon’s perch was carved and gewgawed with toads, snakes, dragon shapes, deer, cows, pigs, trees, trolls. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

A deep flush snakes through me like the arcana. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, when I took my sheep through the fields some of them might have died if we had come upon a snake. But that’s the way life is with sheep and with shepherds.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t notice before, but he has a tattoo of a snake behind his ear. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In one room there are glass cages with snakes in them, snakes bigger than any we’ve ever seen before. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tattoos of snakes that spiraled around both of his forearms ended in snake heads in each palm. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A snake with unseeing milky eyes uncoiled in its alcohol-filled jar. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Eventually, though, Herbie had the presence of mind to drag his sleeping bag outside and shake it hard; he shuddered as four skinny little water snakes blinked puzzledly up into his flashlight beam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy didn’t understand all of it, but he got son of a gorgon, power- hungry snake, and a few choice suggestions about where Octavian could stick his knife. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“So,” said Harry, “the diary’s gone, the ring’s gone. The cup, the locket, and the snake are still intact, and you think there might be a Horcrux that was once Ravenclaw’s or Gryffindor’s?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Many times, when Enrique falls asleep, he has the same nightmare: A snake has bitten him in the mouth. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

His eyes were the same green shade of a snake I had seen once, slithering across the yard near the hibiscus bushes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The snake turned back to the Sea King, stretching its neck as if pleading. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“The snake smiles but it shows no teeth,” murmured the badchan. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hera, encouraging him to prod a poisonous snake with a stick when he was four years old. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The snake lady released the scarf and it fluttered down toward the Generals hand. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The large snake slithered away into the darkness. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Rose slid off the back of the log, snaking a leg behind her and dragging her backpack as she went. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I even enjoy the feel of it down there, on that shriveled pink snake that fathered five children so long ago. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I kept worrying that when I took the next step, my bare foot would feel a snake slithering under it. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across their backs they bore round wicker shields covered with hides and boiled leather, displaying painted images of snakes and spiders, severed heads, bloody hammers, broken skulls, and demons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The snake had killed the mouse in a split second. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They came and went, stray dogs and cats, their puppies and kittens, nonpoisonous snakes, and lizards and tortoises we caught in the desert. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No more alligators, no more poisonous snakes, no more stealing,” Chuck Muckle said. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The snake had not stirred,” Nathan said as he came back. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes me wonder if the smaller snake in my constellation with Director Horus was actually my own magic. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“And so is a snake. And so is a bird.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the mat, they looked like humans from the waist up, but from the waist down they were snakes. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A call goes up through the congregation and two of the brothers do a shuffling dance down the center aisle, a wooden box containing a snake in each of their hands. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The boom jerked back and forth, ropes flopped like sick snakes, the sails looked sloppy and loose, and she rolled from side to side on the smallest swell or wave like an old washtub. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t even take your snake stick,” she says. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither boy was faster than Mr. Flux, who moved like snakes, and living taffy, and malignant rubber bands, slender and stretched. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Uncle Vernon tapped on the glass, but the snake didn’t budge. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

If so, he had been wrong....Snape had seen to that....Snape, the sleeping snake, who had struck at the top of the tower... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I have seen many of them, along with other venomous snakes, and we have always gotten along. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was a light yellow snake, covered with bright copper spots, like the wild flowers pulled loose and traveling. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A short round girl with honey-brown skin and gold snake bangles curling up her arm glared at me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Wait a moment,” said a heavily accented voice, and in the candlelight I saw the snake girl and her python looking at me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Laika, who for whatever reasons had an excessively guilty conscience, immediately dropped the snake and curled up in her “please don’t kill me” pose. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Parseltongue, the ability to converse with snakes, has long been considered a Dark Art. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Smoke was pouring out the open door like a writhing black snake, and she could hear the screams of the poor animals inside, don-keys and horses and men. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, well, well,” sneered Snape, taking out his wand and tapping the padlock once, so that the chains snaked backward and the gates creaked open. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

His visor was a full face mask fashioned like a gorgon’s head—curved tusks, horrible features pinched into a snarl, and golden snake hair curling around the face. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Next to it, the winged snake had legs and breathed fire, and the next step in dragon development had three heads. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I wondered whether she might actually grab a stick and whack Nelson behind the head, as she’d done to the snake. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burning snakes twisted horribly and some crawled burning across the floor of the grotto to illuminate its darker recesses. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“One of us?” jeered Voldemort, and his whole body was taut and his red eyes stared, a snake that was about to strike. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the Guildhall’s holds he stashed twenty donkeys, seven camels, and an assortment of monkeys and deadly snakes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Pinmei felt as if a snake had laid an egg in her stomach. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was a snake, cold of eye, its tongue flickering, its fangs dripping with poison. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Father, on learning that we would miss our lessons, said, “A good thing, too. A boy needs piano like a snake needs a hoop-skirt.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. They shed their shells the way snakes shed their skin.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He guided them safely through the Zekiah swamp, with its muck, snakes, and wild, overgrown vegetation, to the doorstep of Captain Samuel Cox. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snakes liked to curl up in the cane and didn’t take kindly to being disturbed, so I wore boots. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were called “those who walk in the darkness,” and they were terrible of aspect, with writhing snakes for hair and eyes that wept tears of blood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know much about snake species, but he was almost certain he knew what these were. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The only things that moved were the flames and the snake, coiling and uncoiling in the glittering cage behind Voldemort’s head. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Spiders and snakes and bugs and bats and you name it—he just wasn’t very fond of any of them. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The snake found her not long into her return. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The storm clouds darkened and roiled like a seething cauldron of snakes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Be seated, friends!” he said, bowing graciously to the other snakes who, at that word, slid reverently to the floor again, coiled themselves up, and gazed steadily at the Hamadryad and Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Back and forth across the hill the road snaked. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

First they came to a snake and asked him the way to go. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Well, that was hardly a surprise because for the last few days people had been finding snakes everyplace. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They showed this one snake slipping out of its old skin and then leaving that old skin on the ground behind him. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Rats, turtles, and snakes caught in our traps are not wasted as we cook and eat their brains, tails, hides, and blood. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hand him the preshow CD, jog down the aisle, and snake behind the heavy red curtain. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Was that snake real every time I saw it, or only sometimes? Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

His dough snake looked like it had been trampled by a horse. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He waited beside her until the great snake came for its prey; then he cut its head off just as he had the Gorgon’s. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coiled like a snake, the whip was made of leather. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dirt floor, we’d heard, meant snakes and scorpions could crawl into the house from their holes in the ground. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The blood was boiling in it, hissing like snakes. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light slid over a gigantic snake skin, of a vivid, poisonous green, lying curled and empty across the tunnel floor. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And in the middle of the snakes, on a log that had evidently been brought from one of the cages, sat Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Matt walked carefully into its shade, keeping his eyes peeled for snakes that also liked the cool dark. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the park itself, it was an American version of a Middle Eastern bazaar, with folk singers, storytellers, beggars, political dissidents, soapbox orators, and even the occasional snake charmer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’d stick it out like a snake—two nubs wiggling around. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She asked Papa to seal the base of the tent by piling extra dirt, about six inches high, all around it outside so that animals, especially snakes, could not crawl underneath during the night. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I know all about Ephialtes and Otis. Those wannabes! They never fit in with the other giants. Too puny—and those snakes for feet.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They rise up on the elevated track, snaking their way northeast to the farthest end of the county. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The line snaked from the red dot of Wenatchee to a new red dot labeled Spokane. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Virginia! Come outside! I found a dead snake!” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Horntail’s head rose with him, her neck now stretched to its fullest extent, still swaying, like a snake before its charmer. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As the snake slid swiftly past him, Harry could have sworn a low, hissing voice said, “Brazil, here I come.... Thanksss, amigo.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

With its blade, he drew a circle in the sand, and then he placed the snake within it. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For hundreds of years, the fire snake trailed the humans on their exodus.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wondered about thorns, poison ivy, snakes...I wondered, but I didn’t stop. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Could we talk about the way it feels to hold a snake in your hand and then it winds itself around your wrist?” asked Arthur Greenlaw. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

They were careful of the snakes that came out hunting after sundown, and they sneaked up to the cave very quietly and waited for the bats to fly out. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cables resembling giant metal noodles snaked across the floor and ran up the walls. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The tail of the mist snake disappeared into the mummy’s mouth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The story tells that the snake said, “What do you know? What do you remember? What do you see ahead?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now Carmen felt like a thousand snakes were wrapping themselves around her, trying to pull her down. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking how if I ever become a vet’s helper, I got to take care of pet snakes, too. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touch The ash, and the snake crumbles And won’t bite. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall and curved, hooks on the ends, the Z coiled back to strike like a snake. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had learned the song of the snakes - which turned out to be a George Gershwin number from 1935. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This snake, which may reach gigantic size and live many hundreds of years, is born from a chicken’s egg, hatched beneath a toad. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

‘Maybe not . . . you know, Calypso beautiful, but still. Piper kept the snake king’s gaze. ‘What are your real intentions?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Not me. There were always small snakes in my mother’s garden. She said they were friends to the plants.They ate bugs.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was Harry....Harry, not Voldemort...and the thing that was rustling was not a snake....He opened his eyes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She did, and saw what looked like a wide, fearsome snake, blue-green in color, coiling through the woods. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Harry watched, aghast, as a long black snake shot out of it, fell heavily onto the floor between them, and raised itself, ready to strike. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

An outdoor chow line snaked around a half-finished building that broke a good part of the wind. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She logged the names of vipers, salamanders, rare frogs, tiny snakes native only to faraway islands. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

An enormous pipeline snaked over the broken land and disappeared farther into the jungle. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

There’s El Cantil, a tall, skinny man named after a particularly agile and poisonous snake. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The red ribbon did make his hair look quite colorful, a little like the red lining around the scales of a black snake. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I hadn't grown a new skin underneath, like that snake had. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Slim snakes whispering to each other, head to head. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t meet her eyes but snaked an arm around her waist. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I did not even want to think about the snakes in that jungle. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time a woman with hair like snakes said, She is mine, and she meant it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mark grabbed for it, but the stranger had been as quick as a striking snake. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I laughed, a little wild, and reached out fast as a striking snake for his leg. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later, with an anguished groan, Herbie chopped his first snake in two: it had been curled up on his sleeping bag, happily snoozing in the glow of his bodily warmth, when he awoke. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel a cold presence in the room, like a coiled sleeping snake. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The snake people, even the guards, turned and slithered into the darkness, leaving only the king. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The snake, unmoving, coiled tensed and ready only inches from Clay’s leg. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once she had the jacket around her shoulders, the strap and zippers seemed to wind around her like snakes until the plastic was snug around her waist and thighs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

An inky blue tattoo that snaked up the side of his neck from beneath the collar of his shirt. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Two iracaenae—snake women in Greek armor—leveled their javelins at our chests. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The toes of his massive dancing slippers were cut away so that his snakes could protrude. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“No,” Vivi says, wrapping the stuffed snake around the stuffed cat. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At best, it is an unpleasant sensation, scaly and cold, similar to holding on to a small, narrow snake. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Two snakes, thin as lizards and not much longer than Meggie’s lower arm, lay in the casket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I jammed my finger into an open pocket in the seam, wiggled it until the tape split, and the flowery paper fell away like a snake shedding its skin. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Alone in the silence, he wondered if it was possible for a snake to worm its way into the trailer. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When one snake twitched, the others twitched too, as though they were all part of a piece of cloth, ripples in the same stretch of sea. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The hiss of the sprinklers is not the sound of snakes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

With extremely bad timing, Kekrops and his snake people chose that moment to join the fight. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The eye filmed over again as the snake carried on with whatever evil vision it was dreaming. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Too late, the girl looked up just as the snake opened wide and swallowed her down in a giant gulp. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And so late in the night, when they took mortar fire from across the river, all they could do was snake down under the slop and lie there and wait. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A snake kept in a laboratory cage had gone into violent tremors after being fed such worms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

With every breath it expelled, the snake’s tongue flickered out, repeating the vile name: “Asmodeussssssssssss!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Only Ephialtes’s snake feet stuck out, darting their heads around, as if wondering where the rest of their body had gone. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Before four, she said, venomous snakes and scorpions roamed in the heat. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Some caterpillars masquerade as dead leaves, twigs, snakes, even bird droppings, to avoid being eaten. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was a jade snake on her right ring finger. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was still kind of wondering about the little green snakes he’d shoved into his jogging shorts, but I said, “Uh, I like Hercules.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Are they not found everywhere—tree snakes, water snakes and land snakes? You only need to be careful and they pass you by.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without taking her eyes from my face, she very slowly put one of those gloved hands into her purse and drew out a small green snake. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The large snake heard her weeping and came out to see what was happening. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Grams snake bite had anything to do with her stroke, and if Gramps felt guilty for whizzing off the highway and stopping at that river. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The Fleshlumpeater was writhing about over the ground like some colossal tortured snake. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The muvuki*s voice was smooth as the passage of a snake through reeds. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is indeed. Asmodeus the snake lies dead. I slew him with this very weapon. It is the great sword of Martin the Warrior!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Carmen had read about a kind of snake that wrapped itself around its prey, choking it to death. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

You would learn all the Cherokee songs, even the song of the snakes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I’m so busy checking for snakes and other creepy-crawlies that I bump into Ma when she stops suddenly. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I was walking very fast but very quietly, until I accidentally stepped on the tail of a snake. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He brandished his wand at the snake and there was a loud bang; the snake, instead of vanishing, flew ten feet into the air and fell back to the floor with a loud smack. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Mama had always been squeamish about lizards and snakes and bugs and things, and you could tell that it just made her flesh crawl to have to touch this one. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like she had reached the end of the world, and beyond it was this fierce emptiness that curled its way around everything like a snake, just waiting for its moment to squeeze. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And then he saw something he hadn’t realized: the highway snaked around a long range of foothills. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Be their slaves? Hose down their hogs? Clean out their snake pits?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The antenna cable snaked up through a hole I’d punched in the van’s ceiling. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They were almost all books for grown-ups: a well-worn thriller, a book about snakes, another about Alexander the Great, the Odyssey. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The other snake belched fire directly in the skeleton’s face. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

That a snake might bite her, or that one of those fellows walking by and swinging his machete might just cut her gizzard out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lets go of whoever, snakes her arms around my neck, and suddenly I’m king. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Signora Divino, without enough ears, gathers slugs in her garden and brings them and the snakes into the yard of our casa when she thinks we do not see. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The snake’s eyes, like deep dark pinpricks, gazed at the Black Tortoise. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Nothing moved but slow snakes of sand borne by the wind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Tom,” said the girl’s voice again, now so close they were clearly right beside the house, “I might be wrong — but has somebody nailed a snake to that door?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In rare cases, the results of the snake pit could swing the outcome of a contest and turn on a single ballot. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Quickly, they would take one sheep and mix equal parts human and sheep brains into the two bowls for the snakes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Grandma’s something with snakes. You should have seen—” “Okay, okay,” I muttered. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced back apprehensively, half expecting to find the limp white things crawling after him in sightless pursuit or snaking up through the treetops in a writhing and ungovernable mutative mass. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Ai, Chihuahua . . .” And, now that it had devoured most of the town’s water snakes, that grubby yellow feline reincarnation of Cleofes Apodaca was pitter-pattering quietly along the irrigation ditches, hunting frogs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a simple thin band and an oval-shaped piece of dark turquoise held in place by snaking silver strands. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The veins in my arms rise like angry snakes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I’m scared of snakes” “If we have a problem with snakes, Dill can handle it,” Travis said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“He killed the snake and the poison-feather bird!” the emperor said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They snaked it over to the dock and connected it to something that resembled a giant rust- freckled egg. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We enter a small, dingy room where a man is lighting a bidi, smoke snaking out of his lips. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It allows the God of Envy's snake to enter your veins. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the mirror of the bright shield he could see them clearly, creatures with great wings and bodies covered with golden scales and hair a mass of twisting snakes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One big arm snaked around my shoulders, the other behind my knees. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Scorpions and giant poisonous centipedes sometimes appeared in the tent—even, a few times, a snake. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the snakes carried the wood to the hole in her fangs and the other butted it into place with her head. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long line of villagers snaked from the fountain to the edge of the woods, where the fire appeared to be heading. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A bite from a coral snake can lead to paralysis and death. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She already felt like she had creatures inside her—moths and snakes and terrors—and wouldn’t want them on her, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After all, if she’d keep this enemy close, by George’s logic, she’d start to appreciate all that snakes do in her garden. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Something hisses deep in the building’s belly as though a massive snake is about to strike. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kabul was eerily silent, quilted in white, tendrils of smoke snaking up here and there. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

As if responding to his fear, a tangy copper smell snaked out of the sheath, pervading the air. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

‘So the guy turned into a snake. The moral is: Frank has been eating squirrels?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was stuff like a young bird that had fallen out of its nest before it could fly, or a green-speckled spring frog or a striped water snake. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dodged snakes, as well as bandits trying to assault them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We nomads live in an area with dangerous animals and poisonous snakes. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his friends backed up while Hygeia and her snake underwent a violent religious experience. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“In fact I’ll go even further. I promise you that if you defeat the snake, I’ll admit I was wrong to that stuffy old cat. I’ll even apologize to him on bended knees, so there!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In Skadden, the legal historian Lincoln Caplan describes that early world of takeovers: The winner of a proxy contest was determined in the snake pit. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He imagines how the snake will feel when he holds it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The next moment, a huge hand with pale fingers came snaking in through the window. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then it’s Rachel who starts it: Skip, skip, snake in your hips. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building has a festive air: its usual smells of Dustbane and furniture polish and mouse droppings and snakes mingle with other smells, of winter clothing, cigarette smoke, and women’s perfume. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Lilian was the snake in the garden, the witch in the gingerbread house, someone to fear even though she was dead. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

So the snake said, “Put your foot through the hole in the seedpod where I was playing, and you will become wise.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The few flimsy trees were naked of leaves, and a long scar snaked across the packed dirt. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Having found neither sword nor snake, the King had become peeved and bad tempered. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He had seen it work with snakes in Dome, but here, with these monsters ... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Quick as a snake Gollum slithered aside, and the stroke aimed at his head fell across his back. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“That part about the snakes was a bit much.” I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Little water snakes slipped down to the rocks and then gently entered the water and swam along through the pool, their heads held up like little periscopes and a tiny wake spreading behind them. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snake came to the lizard and stopped. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He could not know that the juice of rue healed the ache of the ear or that it was an antidote to the bite of venomous snakes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Something was curling around my leg like a snake. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

‘And the medications weren’t covered by my plan! And -’ The snake lurched as Leo connected the last two wires. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Grandpop lifted his right leg and rested his ankle on his left knee, so he could scratch the snake bite scar. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He scrambled up and saw the snake outlined against the landing light: It struck, and Hermione dived aside with a shriek; her deflected curse hit the curtained window, which shattered. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The truck bumped as it traveled on the rough road that snaked between the pine trees around them and jerked his body around. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Such was his cunning, that we used to call him, among ourselves, “the snake.” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

The head of a snake emerges, and the creature winds itself through the legs of the bird, coiling up around it. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The black snake silently uncoiled itself and slithered alongside. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“High enough so the trees looked like bushes, the garden like a postcard, and the river like a snake.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The fire snake’s father was such a fiery sun.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, slithering toward them like a twisting piece of black string, was a snake. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kurtz danced off, and I snaked through the flailing bodies. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Half of them had collapsed, pulled down by the weight of the grey moss that draped them and the thick black vines that snaked upward from the water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At that moment Chet realized how little he actually knew about snakes. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Food bad enough to kill you with it Roaches here, mice, flies, lice and even a snake or two. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snake bit down on the large jar between its teeth and exploded. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Grover frantically hit the snake with his reed pipes, but he might as well have been banging on a stone wall. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The snake fought frantically, making hissing sounds that shattered the silence of the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all night Encanis hung from his wheel and watched them, motionless as a snake. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Turtles had survived on earth more than two hundred million years—longer than snakes or crocodiles, even. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

As he did so, he said, “May you never step in a snake's nest.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

That finally she had, though, was probably no more amazing than, say, a snake’s being able to swallow a rat. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma felt this sentence would give people “an opening to say, however unjustly, that he considered all spiritual beliefs no higher than hereditary aversions or likings, such as the fear of monkeys towards snakes.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, crawling on hands and knees, they snaked it up the chute to the promenade deck. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Staying close to the floor, he snaked himself down the first flight of stairs, gently dragging the limp, unconscious body of Angel with him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snake wasn’t lying in the sand, basking in the sun, like usual. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Even the golden snake turned towards her, as if insurance was some sort of tasty rodent. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Food for snakes that lurked in the long June grass. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snake nodded, its tongue flicking with eagerness. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I stuffed my spare clothes back in, shaking each piece first in case of snakes or centipedes, and slung the bag over my shoulder. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The snake nuzzled her cheek and flicked its tongue. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

His arm snakes out of the loop in mine. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes sir, I did. Every man from that snake Willoughby on down.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They were fixed on Mo’s face, as unmoving as the eyes of a snake. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

To the north, the hills and rainforests of Lynn Canyon Park snaked between the subdivisions of North Vancouver until they gave way to the wilderness. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I decide I’m the snake, ’cause snakes are pretty awesome. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Under one of the adult caiman’s rear legs, a baby caiman hatches from its egg, and to the left is a coral snake egg. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Lyra lay wrapped up as tightly as a mummy, fast asleep, and Pan lay coiled around her neck as a little green snake. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Down home there’s a vile breed of snake called a hoop snake. Not only can it outrun a racehorse, it’s been known to kill a fully grown bear with one bite!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The snakes George and Martha curled around his caduceus, murmuring, Luke, poor Luke. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah...but not music about picking up snakes and stuff. That kind of music isn’t that popular.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I run out the door after him, reminding myself I’ll have to return to arrange the tools and press the Start button, but soon I’m caught up in examining the snake’s shiny skin and entrails. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glass boxes with snakes and lizards and insects. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I took her hand and we pushed into the house, snaking through a maze of skittish animals that shied from our touch. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Rain, I can hear it thinking, and Is it a snake? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A writhing mass of painted snakes emerges on all the walls. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Above the mist in the distance over the water, the sun was beginning to streak and shine, sending golden snakes writhing out into the rich expanse of the sky and waking up the day. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It would be foolish to tromp much farther through the river’s edge in the dark, with the risk of snakes and crocodiles. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Leopards walked upright on the paths and snakes moved quietly from their holes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next he rolled the clay between his palms until it formed a long snake. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Wilfrido checked his coif and slithered out of the cell like the snake he was. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They had surrounded the central, older Tower like sentinels, and the castle had wrapped around the whole of it like a snake eating its tail. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We pass an indoor garden, a marble bathing onsen, and a series of offices, until we stop before a white door marked with a white rose snaking through a four-pointed crown. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Once Buckthorn disturbed a snake, and leaped into the air as it whipped between his paws to vanish down a hole at the foot of a birch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A snake and three dead chickens hung from its grass-covered body, swinging as the mmuo walked. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The things slithered into the cafeteria with a cold hissing that might have been snake laughter. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The water was filled with poisonous snakes,” Gramps had said. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Hogwarts Express was streaking along below them like a scarlet snake. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

After fourteen months, her stomach corrupted by monkey meat and snake stew, Úrsula gave birth to a son who had all of his features human. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Can’t say I’d want a snake crawling across me, but I don’t have to run screaming to Dad every time I see a garden snake now. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d run out of deodorant that morning and had to snake some of my dad’s. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He knew how he would grab it—by the tail, of course, so he wouldn’t have to put his hand near the snake’s mouth. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The sort that makes people want to pick up venomous snakes and drink poison to be nearer to their God. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Jason stood by, ready to attack, but the snake seemed transfixed by Piper’s problems with Blue Lightning’s coverage. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Koffi was still studying her, eyes dropping to the large stone snake carved at her feet, when she heard it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Now there were twenty snakes whipping over the floor, killing the fire with a clear cold venom of green froth. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to them, I’d fainted straightaway, and Miles had tried to beat the snake to death while it was still wrapped around me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

By the time she got there, at least the snake had let go. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Deltas of tiny red veins snaked its stained whites. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She stumbled, and he snaked an arm around her back to make sure she didn’t go down for the count. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The alchemist erased the circle in the sand, and the snake slithered away among the rocks. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

No school bus could ever make it up the rutted, snaking dirt road that led to Garland. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The others swung round and saw the waters of the lake seething, as if a host of snakes were swimming up from the southern end. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was an indoor waterslide snaking around the glass elevator, which went straight up at least forty floors. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Bit by bit, with short but steady lurches, we get the cart to the front of the store, and into one of the snaking checkout lines. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“A good joke. Where was I? Secondary hallucinations, yes. Women come to me with snakes crawling from their ears. When I cure them, the snakes vanish.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magic lions are sent to kill delinquent debtors, and snakes the size of tractors can lie in wait for you in your fields. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Adam and Eve got made, a snake appeared in a tree. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was the morning when I thought I would fall dead from fear after I had stepped with my bare feet upon a bright little green garden snake. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only when the enormous snake dropped down from the tree that they realized the sound was a hiss. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A lane snaking to Marl Bank and Castlemorton, fields, more fields, a glimpse of an old gray turret rising above the firs. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then we could hear the hissing of gas from the broken pipes, like dozens of angry snakes, and people, trapped inside the mounds, began calling. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dad looked like Giant Haystacks the wrestler, with tattoos snaking up his arms. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A transparent spotted snake with a forked tongue floated across the sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took the four of them a moment to check badges, but by then Hamilton had snaked down the back hall and out into the alley. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Go on, anyway, shove the bore down, slush up the emptiness, if such a thing could be brought out in the throb of the suction snake. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the snake’s throat, the girl pushed with her hands and feet, This is not cursing. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Reeds grew thick in the shallows along the banks, and Arya saw a water snake skimming across the surface, ripples spreading out behind it as it went. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“But if we leave them here a snake will get them,” I said, imagining a serpent swallowing each egg whole. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then she made me spend better than a week, taking him out and teaching him to throw rocks and kill snakes. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he draws frightening scorpions and snakes with dark charcoal pencil. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Kind of hard now anyway, since the only snake handling pastor around got locked up.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I am not superstitious and do not believe in omens, but the death of the snake did not please me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leapt onto the mud floor, right in front of the snake. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Times like when a snake is in her garden and she acts surprised. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I look at the hundreds of long pine needles, each perfectly aligned with the next, each end carefully pushed into the loose soil, forming a curved snake that flows in and out of the ground. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Horses were like dogs, sometimes calm, sometimes playful, sometimes mean as snakes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He didn’t mention that the snakes distributed by Beatrice Leep’s stepbrother were highly poisonous and that the boy had actually taped their mouths shut. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair is made of snakes, entwined in braids, with wings for his headdress. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A grand staircase splits into two like a pair of pearl-white snakes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Last fall, the line at the hardware store snaked around the block for the surplus paint, left over from a hospital project on the other side of Havana. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as a point of fact, on this day, I had heavy cowboy riding boots on, which adequately covered any area a snake would hit. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At first Piper was self-conscious, singing in front of all her friends and a snake guy. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Transparent packing tape snaked along the crack in the window. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Baboons went into screaming fits if they saw a snake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The first letter’s B, and it’s got the S—the one like a snake—so it’s the same.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But come on,” he said, “how do you tape a snake’s mouth closed?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s been thrashed and bitten. The book says that’s how pigs kill snakes.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A snake killer, an Archduke, a slayer of TOCs—a genius, even. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

And for a moment, she was more undone by this girl’s beauty than by the carnivorous snake. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was about nineteen, long black hair brushing his shoulders, a curling mustache, like a limp black snake draped on his upper lip, the ends dangling near his chin. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pushed the platform to the ceiling and into a pathway that snaked its way upward into a round opening in one of the crystal spires. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

What if I lost the trail in blizzard or fog, or was nipped by a venomous snake, or lost my footing on moss-slickened rocks crossing a stream and cracked my head a concussive blow? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

So either it's leaking or there are snakes in here. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's really more of a metaphor’ And Mark is writing, 'Definitely pick up actual literal snakes and drink actual real poison like rotten grape juice or other Bible-y poison’” “Who knows exactly what he meant?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

And the stream seemed to slither like a watery snake. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I knew—I seemed to have known all along— that the snakes were there to guard something. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I solved my hating snakes by drawing their scales, tiny and silvery, overlapping and overlapping, until all I saw was how perfect they were. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reached a bridge and, with a hiss, the snake slithered away. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I was in the cave again, and his horrible smile was snaking up his wrinkled cheek and his eye was once more half-closed. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next year, Bridge, Tab, and Emily were the set of fifth graders who drew creatures on their homework papers, and they drew the same things they had drawn before: bird, snake, and Martian. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by a sea of twisting rubber snakes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came a little closer they saw that it was Lee, his elbows waving like wings, his queue lashing about like a snake. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the ball floated in the air, Penelope twisted her hips and back and swung her right arm back over her shoulder, coiling like a really pretty snake. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hairs on the back of my neck stood up, and an invisible rope snaked around my arms and legs. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She was like a snake, someone with no bones left in her body. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She set her feet down as lightly as she could, imagining that she was a cloud, a mist, snaking slowly but surely around the gnarled oak trees. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After that came a savory snake stew, chunks of seven different sorts of snake slow-simmered with dragon peppers and blood oranges and a dash of venom to give it a good bite. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But in most of the photographs, he peered out from behind two sixteen-ounce boxing gloves, crouched low in a boxer’s stance, his arms poised and coiled like snakes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly the pieces came together in his mind, the giant golden snake that had just passed, the countenance he had seen carved in stone a thousand times inside the Temple of Lkossa. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Judge Barsi,” he said as the car snaked slowly through the snarl of traffic. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The great snake was uncoiling itself rapidly, slithering out onto the floor. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Leo prised open a service panel near the snake’s head. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her dragons were hungry, so she chopped up a snake and charred the pieces over a brazier. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He moved the conch gently, looking beyond them at nothing, remembering the beastie, the snake, the fire, the talk of fear. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The casual snake smile started to slip from his face. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only Chet didn’t want to share the spotlight when he captured the real snake. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t have to worry about the snakes, and I'd find Mo before he gets here. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She saw a woman with hair writhing like snakes perched in the rafters of a house with a baby clutched to her chest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Below that, where her legs should’ve been, were two massive snake trunks, mottled bronze and green. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was like the time she’d been in her hidey-hole back in Georgia and saw a snake sunning itself only to watch it uncurl. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The gigantic spadelike head of the snake thrust itself through into the small space. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But most importantly—at least for today—you could root out snakes. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

"And if your brother is the shadow of a snake, what does that make his servants?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ivanito imagines the vines and tendrils, taut and violent as a killing rope, snaking along the floor to his bed, wrapping him in place, tighter and tighter, choking off his breath while his sisters sleep. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And who is this?” he said in his soft snake’s hiss. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Near the snake’s tail which lay directly across his path, he saw the skins and pelts on the cave wall tremble slightly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She had heard of the river, of course, but had not known that it looked like a snake. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He screamed, “Look! Look! Women there. Black, all black, and long hair like snakes.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snake men led them through an iron storm grate at the docks, straight into their underground lair, which smelled of rotting fish, mould and snakeskin. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Harry felt a slight squirm of discomfort, as though a small snake had stirred inside him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The woods were all around the field, and there were snakes in the oats. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead, the first line was within bowshot of the enemy,- flights of arrows flew between the ships, hissing like striking snakes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Because only a single rope snaked up the Lhotse Face, however, it wasn’t easy to pass slower climbers. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She let it fly and smacked the snake across the tail. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Not little pipsqueak ones like Chihuahuas—he could feed one of those to his snake, no problem. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In late spring, as the days grow longer and warmer, the snakes will all slither back to their thinking spots. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The bright paintings with white winged horses and snakes as long and wide as lakes. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A few of the later plates even showed, for the first time, the life cycles of tropical frogs and toads, as well as lizards and snakes. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Julie had shot the factory from a crane, so that the effect for the viewer was of floating just above the snaking pipes and smokestacks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Red-tailed hawks would like to eat those snakes. We have red-tailed hawks all over. Those white bellies sticking out all over the place,” Axel says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The woman’s hair was also made of snakes, like Medusa’s. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And despite the glowing moon, it was still dark enough for Genie to have a hard time seeing things in the grass, especially something moving as fast as a snake. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Even in his deteriorated state, his snake eyes shine bright and cold. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Shoot,” he said, “I d-don’t want to stand out there with that old sun b-beating down on me eating my lunch. No snakes up around that tree, is there?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Harry flung his arms over his head and ran, slipping over the coils of snake skin, out of the way of great chunks of tunnel ceiling that were thundering to the floor. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He was like a snake’s second skin, shed off and forgotten and empty on the ground. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

They threw rocks to scare away the poisonous cottonmouth snakes, then dropped into the water from tree branches or dove from muddy banks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But Michael Jackson was probably somewhere in Grandpop’s backyard being eaten by a snake! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Her nails were painted red and she had a snake tattooed around her navel, which could move in circles while the rest of her body remained absolutely still. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shot and cooked rabbits and birds, but he could also eat scorpions, snakes, cockroaches, worms, slugs, beetles, and crickets. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank had no idea what that meant, but it sounded better than flaming poisonous snakes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Once while working in the fields, a black mamba snake slithered over his foot and prepared to strike. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Summer was savaging Hah, pulling glistening blue snakes from her belly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Neat brick walkways crisscrossed the grass, snaking in and out of the shadows of the tall trees and their luxurious branches. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The kids knew they’d get eaten if they followed the snake. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The gorgons were hard to miss, with their colorful snake hair and their bright green Bargain Mart vests. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And although Mother had once or twice entertained Leapers in the house, she tended to lump them all together, fairly or not, with snake handlers, fallers, foamers, and other fringe examples of the henhouse sects. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

His body is a patchwork of black skin like a seal’s and green and blue scales like a snake’s. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It reminds me of a certain snake I knew. A droll fellow, till a mountain fell on him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her spatula moved like a striking snake and the hot cakes settled their white sides hissing on the soapstone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I find them with Mr. Allen, watching a show about snakes. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back out to the fire snaking through the dead brush. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Neeley prepared to crawl under the table if the snakes became active. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bolverkr slid in snake shape through the hole in the mountain until the hole ended and he found himself in a huge cavern. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mary wouldn't bail me out after I kilt that God-forsaken snake, you know. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“But—” Two hours later, there was not a single “snake” still attached to anything to which it was supposed to be attached. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

One of them uncovered a snake and sent the whole troop into a screaming panic. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could have been a pit full of snakes for all I cared. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He saw Carter snaking through the line again, like some monstrous reptile in his helmet, but suddenly Carter became all arms and legs tossing and turning in the air, hit devastatingly low by Croteau. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I snake out of his grip, he grabs me by the shirt. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The noise began all about them, a rustling slither, like a snake twining through dry leaves. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He opened his eyes, stared into the snake’s mouth, and screamed at the top of his lungs, “YAAAAAAAAAH!” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The snake gobbled up the frogs, although it took it some time to catch them all. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I start drawing hills on my notebook in tribute to our state’s highest point, but they look more like formless lumps or airborne snakes—I can’t decide. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She push her nose closer to the little duck, and Mama Duck snake out her neck and pop Biddy a good one. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

From them we learned that we were about the most hated animals on earth, except maybe snakes and germs. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there, he could see streaks of light snaking through a haze of smoke. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Others turned to extreme religious movements, including snake handling. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

From on high, it would just look like the forest had an empty space, a misshapen wound snaking through thick growth. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Inside the woods they roam freely, and there are added concerns like venomous snakes, rabid animals, and no real paths to follow. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He took a big swing at the snake with his shovel, missed the terrified reptile by at least six inches, lost his footing, and fell over the embankment. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It savaged patients and snaked like chain lightning out from the hospital through patients’ families. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opens before we even ring the bell, and this hand comes snaking out and reaches for the mailbox and finds this rolled-up newspaper and pulls it back inside. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the bees would be calm after all, the snakes silent, and the chickens full of eggs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mr. Remora said “clue” with a little shiver, as if he were talking about snakes instead of a game. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A thin white belt snaked around her narrow waist, and a small diamond cross glinted in the hollow of her neck. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“If the snake knew where I was, he wouldn’t waste his time trying to scare me,” he reasoned. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Axel would love for a snake to come slithering out now. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Well, yes, but you—” “Dang snakes,” Gramps said, pulling at another one. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Malaria, starvation, Indian attacks, and vicious bites from piranhas, snakes, and insects were all part of the job. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

This half path snaked off the bridle path right where we were. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The tree’s roots, thickly twisted and fanning out like huge, grasping fingers, snaked out from its base. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dead snakes do not stink like dead mammals. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Curling white snakes with flickering black tongues, birds with coal-colored wings flapping through the thick fog. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Why would the Conte give us a snake? You get these strange ideas from all those stories Hornet reads you.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

That night, l’m lying in my sleeping bag thinking about the rabbit and the snake. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The party towers were already lit up, and snakes of burning torches marked flickering pathways through the pleasure gardens. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Curly never once had seen a snake on the Mother Paula’s site, and he would have remembered if he had. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we hadn’t gone to that river, Gram would never have been bitten by that snake. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The rabbits started hopping and the birds started flying and the lizards started leaping and the snakes started slithering and Winn-Dixie started barking and chasing everything that was moving, and Otis shouted, “Help me!” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly he reverted to his true self, a snake, and slithered away hissing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He decorates them with swirling snakes and hungry scorpions. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He saved and reared two little snakes when his servants killed the parent snakes, and as pets they repaid him well. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must know how to deal with the snakes of the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pink jump rope lay coiled like a snake near the foot of the narrow twin bed—evidence of her latest obsession. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was beyond me to weigh such matters, when my doorstep harbored snakes that could knock a child dead by spitting in her eyes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say she’s a woman that isn’t really a woman at all, but is a snake in disguise. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In one hand, he held his sword, and in the other, the head of the Bashe snake. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Under the cabin it smelled stale and dead, like old carcasses and snakes. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If there was a market for rocks and snakes,” I told Mr. Whiskers, “I could buy up the whole of Dawson County.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was the exact truth and it had leaped out like the stroke of a snake. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She said nothing—what was there to say?—but she stood beside Loki’s head, with tears in her eyes, and caught each drop of poison as it fell from the snake’s fangs into her bowl. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Are you discriminating against snakes and turtles? Do they not need loving, caring forever homes?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The snake ambles over, his eyes creeping down her body, leaving no doubt as to what he's thinking. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He looked at the serpentine S, inlaid with glittering green stones: It was easy to visualize it as a minuscule snake, curled upon the cold rock. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Roza edged away from the fireplace, from the horrible painting over it, like an animal sidesteps a snake. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

An’ isn’t it a very curious thing that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland an’ the English brought in the fleas. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The snake is not fast moving in the chilly morning, but it manages to keep pace with Signora Divino, following her back to her yard. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

If Mama wanted him to kill his snakes first, he’d kill them. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say that and a whole lot more, mean as a snake to my own father. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She and the lantern-jawed medic snake a tube down my throat, attach a bag with a bulb to it, and start pumping. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His tongue flickers out like a snake’s as he tastes the jam. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was a way to scare away snakes. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I had snaked fencing wire up and down the underside of the fire escape outside my window, hiding it in the wild ivy that covered the side of the building. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The wire whipped up and away, writhing like a snake. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

So I let him and the Pigman go on running around while I took this snake quiz that was on a lighted sign. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You want to be careful; they can run you right down. Oh no, I think there’s a snake there. One of those black snakes. You’ve got the antidote in the car, right?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A Stitch in Time stood tall, snaking the yellow measuring tape over her shoulder and jabbing the offending needle into the pumpkin-shaped pincushion affixed to her wrist. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Curiously enough though, I never saw the woman with the green snake again. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Emma allowed that this was at least marginally peculiar, since the ability to enchant snakes was something only syndrigasti could do. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Not me. I don’t much care for snakes.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first row of snake women wailed as the machine gun’s volley blew them into sulfurous yellow powder. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Harry looked back at the snake, willing himself to believe it was alive. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Bran saw great white snakes slithering in and out of the earth around him, and his heart thumped in fear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I make a turn and head into the park, taking a path that snakes through the trees and grass. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The other clubs along the street might get the tiger, chimp, and snake trade. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Past the edges of the buildings, the gray-green river snaked north to south, dotted with boats zipping up and down the invisible lanes of traffic. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The paneling of this office once breathed the humid air of a Congolese forest, gave shelter to life, felt the scales of snake belly on its branches. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There were snakes all over the place, and I couldn’t stand snakes.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The carriages snake through the narrow passageways as they enter the Garden Quartier. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Its whisper was like a snake slithering over dead leaves. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

If he had only managed to kill the snake, it would have been worth it, all of it....Sick at heart, he sat up and threw back the covers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the nearest snake, and though his gray flesh began to smoke on contact, he strangled the basilisk with one hand and flung down its limp body. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The giant’s spells now broken, his soldiers, seeing that they had been led by a snake, pledged their loyalty to me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turned his head and spotted the snake. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was going to go down as kibble for some giant snake alcoholic? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We stored them in the musty shed across the parking lot from Scanlan, stacked atop one another from September through May, nesting grounds for spiders and the occasional rat or garter snake. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

This creature stood ten feet high; it was no mere snake. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“The Black Tortoise needs help,” hissed the snake, its voice like the wind through pine needles. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

"He has no coin and the only knight who follows him reviles him as less than a snake. The Dothraki make mock of his weakness. He will never take us home." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He scanned the ground as he went, looking for places snakes might be, like big thickets of brush where it was easy to hide. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Not the belly slither of angry snakes coming up from the sheltered ground of their own accord to punish us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sucked in a breath under the snake’s weight, trying to keep calm. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The one Laika found was dried and flat, an old rattler that had become an S-shaped band of snake jerky. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were clenching on to the sides of their desks and looking as afeared as a horse that’s seen a three-head snake. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The second break in the track came up after another hour a crumbling bridge over a river that snaked down from the mountains. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

"Then die!" the snake hissed, and it seized Ku-Ang with its knifelike teeth, lifted him up into the sky, and flung him away with all its might. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He had a tattoo of a rattlesnake on his arm, and as he signed his name, the snake's rattle seemed to wiggle. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The whole room shook as the snake flexed its muscles, shuddering to overcome Tyson’s strength. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Rishi laughed and reached for her, snaking a strong arm around her waist and pulling her snug against him. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He turned into a snake and slithered over the edge. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I know snakes can’t smile, but they seemed to be trying. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“They probably bite something once a day. I hate snakes.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When he spoke, the hundreds of snaking cracks in the windshield cut up his reflection. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For what seemed like a long time, me and Otis ran around trying to catch mice and gerbils and hamsters and snakes and lizards. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I forgot about the little kid and the snake in the woods. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were said to be the most venomous snakes on the continent; a single bite could kill in a matter of minutes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

An elephant—this beast had the body of a snake and the head of an elephant. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The sinking sun made it glisten like the skin of a beautiful snake. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I look up and the snake has finished swallowing. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found such lovely things: calabashes, shells, many ornaments that women used to decorate themselves, snake images, pots. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She snakes herself against me, surely knowing there is no way I can refuse. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day, the sun grew hotter and more punishing, too hot for June, and the fence seemed to get longer and longer, like a living thing snaking out across the prairie. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Ground fire is a wriggling snake, making erratic shapes. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“After that,” Dolores continued as they snaked their way out the door and through the crowds to the bus stop, “I have an adventure of my own to finish.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He knew the snake wouldn’t attack anyone now, though how he knew it, he couldn’t have explained. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re not afraid of the frogs, lizards, or snakes that could be hiding in this grass?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

When he’d woken up that morning as a giant snake, perhaps it had been a sign from the gods. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He swept around in his long black cloak, watching them weigh dried nettles and crush snake fangs, criticizing almost everyone except Malfoy, whom he seemed to like. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

One day Callie had explained to her all about how the snake unhinged its jaw for the job. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or—he remembered something he’d read in a nature book—maybe he was like the prey of a snake that hypnotized its victims before it ate them. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It felt as though live snakes were writhing all over his skin. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The bus isn’t bad,” one quipped, “except for the snakes.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know what it is: it’s a green mamba snake away up in the tree. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about us, we realized, since we heard the word nyoka—snake—many times, and also the word Jesus. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the snake incident, I saw them in the cafeteria, reenacting what had happened for their friends. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The fire backed off, as even an elephant must at the sight of a dead snake. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see three links of a huge chain snaking out from a hole no bigger than a man's head and disappearing under the water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The time of in-between, already a memory, coiled away like a snake within its hole. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

A green mist poured from the mummy’s mouth, coiling over the floor in thick tendrils, hissing like twenty thousand snakes. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I made a list of all the accessories I would require, including a black wig and a golden armband shaped like a snake. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The snakes Herbie began to notice shortly after he had established himself in his pathetic redolent smokehouse. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All through that starless night, your breath came in wheezy gasps as raindrops wriggled, like silver snakes, through the gaps in our tent. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Forcefully the snake launched his great body at the opening, crumbling earth and rock as he pushed his coils through the aperture. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday, Missy saw a garter snake slithering through the grass behind the blacktop. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Water bubbled through tubes that snaked around the warm, humid walls. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her shiny black hair flew about her head like a nest of long, writhing snakes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gunthrie shot out of his seat, cursing loudly and yelling about snakes and Vietnam. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The sly harp rasped like snakes in cattails, glorifying death. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing she was afraid of was snakes. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

‘What have you done? My snake requires medical assistance!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Grootslangs are said to be the origin of both elephants and all snakes, incredibly powerful.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The great snake, disliking the disturbance, opened its mouth wide and hissed angrily, but the Death Eaters did not hear it, so jubilant were they at Bellatrix and the Malfoys’ humiliation. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When she first got Jake, an albino corn snake, he was no longer than a pencil, but I still refused to come over to her house. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Instead of salsa music, police walkie-talkies were on full blast, bombarding the streets with what sounded like a nest of hissing snakes. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It always seemed like a snake to him, his anxiety—waiting just out of sight, ready to slither up his spine, hissing its familiar taunt. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Before I could answer, Martha the snake’s muffled voice came from his pocket: I have Demeter on line two. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then Grandma held me by the ears and I lifted my feet off the floor until I wiggled like a snake and screamed and she let go. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant was half the length of my spear from the reef, but while I watched, one of his long arms ran out like a snake and felt its way into the crevice. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

How Ares had ended up with a dragon for a son, Frank didn’t want to know; but as punishment for the dragon’s death, Ares turned Cadmus into a snake. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A long flat snake curled from the corner at the top of the chart to the opposite corner at the bottom. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Byrd shakes her head, not like she’s doubting Axel’s knowledge of roadrunner facts, like she’s shaking the last images of the garter snake from her mind. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Three black snakes with fangs spurted out of my open mouth. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

So me and Howard and Wishbone went behind the garage and followed the narrow trail that snaked through the cool, damp woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Seven screamed as the magical poison snaked its way toward her father’s chest. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You don’t seem to see anything this morning. What is it that you want me to do7” ‘Turn me and Kay into snakes or something.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

So far she had even kept the snake king from biting, just like in the old Cherokee story. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A water snake slipped along on the pool, its head held up like a little periscope. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you can turn your enemies into snakes,” Frank said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

One litde snake was hanging out of a hole in the plastic. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

On the way, he showed me a plant called poison oak that makes you itch all over if you touch it, and told me to keep an eye out for snakes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was the thick kind that made Finn think of spiders and snakes. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep you away from her and said she was a snake. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Z looked up at the colorful wires snaking down from the ceiling and coughed. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But right before they snapped upon him, the snake caught sight of Ku-Ang's prize. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The gardener had said it was a harmless garden snake. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the line of cars snaked behind me like some kind of unwilling funeral procession, I found myself talking out loud to her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to tell him what really happened with that snake at the Dueling Club,” said Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

‘This place makes the snake house at the zoo look like a Sunday school picnic,” I said, referring to the fact that I couldn’t see much besides a jillion loops of umbilical line. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poisonous snakes are fine with her, even at the dinner table, as long as they make people happy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I was lookin’ for that snake again, but he’s hiding from me good,” I tell her. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are copper head snakes, coral snakes, cottonmouth snakes, and the blue indigo snake, so long and fast it can kill a rattlesnake. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Lili looked tortured as she watched the boy squirming in the grass, obviously terrified of the crickets, lizards, and small snakes that might be there. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The other Elders stared at the young man with unhinged jaws, like a council of snakes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He looked glum and miserably uncomfortable, but he managed a dancer’s bow, which couldn’t have been easy with snake feet and a huge spear on his back. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At one point, they passed a warm cave the size of a gymnasium filled with snake eggs, their tops covered with a layer of silver filaments like slimy Christmas tinsel. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Although he was certain no humans had followed him, he took off east, snaking a loose loop for half an hour before doubling back to drop down to the river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She chose the smallest snake, and there was something sweet, Jinny thought, in how careful the girl was with the creature. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

‘This here is what I call a snake,” he said. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

In the flicker of time it takes a snake’s tongue to taste the air, he could taste revenge. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Just that there’s a giant snake behind you.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

As Margo put it, “Honestly, first garter snakes and now this fence? This security is sort of insulting to a ninja.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now Harry opened his eyes a fraction, and saw Voldemort striding in front of them, wearing the great snake Nagini around his shoulders, now free of her enchanted cage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A living tail crept like a secretive velvet snake through the rungs of the chair behind him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyson strained, pushing with all his immense strength, but the snake squeezed tighter. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were several lifelike rubber things—spiders, snakes and bugs. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turtles, alligators, crocodiles, and even snakes make various more or less vocal sounds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A reassuring thought as Frank hunted poisonous fire- breathing devil snakes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

If there were snakes out there, hopefully they would eat something else, like maybe Michael Jackson, before they got Genie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“No. His daemon was at the time coiled around his neck in the form of a snake. That shape you can dimly see is a child.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw the snake coming towards him, the boy turned round and began to run away from the hill. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The trek between Kabul and Jalalabad, a bone-jarring ride down a teetering pass snaking through the rocks, had become a relic now, a relic of two wars. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Although some people stayed home to listen to the broadcasts, many celebrated, taking part in midnight torchlight parades that snaked throughout other German towns and cities. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And that mission doctor at Kikongo must have found Father a sight to behold: a wild-haired preacher with a snake in his belly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think maybe there are snakes in these woods?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Snake language. You could have been saying anything — no wonder Justin panicked, you sounded like you were egging the snake on or something — it was creepy, you know —” Harry gaped at him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Miles helped Tucker get rid of the snake food fridge, but they refused to tell me exactly how they snuck it out past the teachers and Animal Control. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Cables snaked out of the back of the machine, leading to an audiocassette recorder, a small color television, a dot-matrix printer, and a 300-baud modem. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When I tapped my finger on the stout cage glass the snake had opened its clockwork jaws and seemed to smile. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The lions and tigers in heated cages, the bears asleep, the snakes coiled tightly underground. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This seems wildly out of sync with the line of filthy men snaking behind the steam tables. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“And snakes,” said Joe, just because he knew Marly was scared of them. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

And he set off alone past the giant snake skin. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I got up and kicked the snake carcass off the dock. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sam blinked at the silver-foil scroll that was handed him, upon which, in hieroglyph, snake figures danced. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shiny black hairpins, like straightened snakes, clamped her starched nurse’s cap to her oily head. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as a strange dispassionate afterthought, he hit the snake with the stick, breaking the serpent in two or three places, and crushed its head under his boot heel. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alone now, the car voiceless, Bull strained to follow the white lines of the highway snaking through Georgia. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat by it to rest, and there I had eye contact with a huge dark snake that retreated behind the bush. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A never-ending line of carts brought the raw material in—thousands of skins, goat, calf, lizard and snake skins—and took them away again tanned, dyed and finished. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she turns she has a long silver cigarette holder at her lips, and the smoke curls around her head like snakes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I knew enough to watch out for snakes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had expected something horrible—a skull, perhaps, or a bundle of snakes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Preacher went on, “They look like near any other snake, except for one thing.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She called back the image of the snake: its eyes, its aim, the swift accuracy of its strike. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But he took a deep breath and headed downstairs to the vast subway system that snaked beneath the city like hidden rivers. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“He was going to show you a message. It’s all written out in snake-script, all the blue snakes. I can’t read it. Can you?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fourth grade he started a herpetology club, for anyone interested in toads, frogs, snakes, and various other amphibians and reptiles. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Mami asked me and Delsa to find small stones to plug the holes in the dirt inside the house, so that snakes and scorpions wouldn’t get out and bite us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her hair is a mess, snaking out every which way. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had sense enough not to take no shortcuts and stuck to the road so’s I could at least see the hoop snake hunting party if I ran up on it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She told whether they had gotten a fright from a snake or whether a witch had put a curse on them or whatever. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Climb up the hill to the old fort and look at the little wriggling gold snakes, and watch the lizards sun themselves.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He no longer had a star-studded snake tail, but his hair was the same inky shade of night, and it looked as if there were stars caught in his hair. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The snake by the kitchen house was a cobra that spits in your eyes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came on slowly around the last bend, a long blue smoking snake, spiked with guns and flags. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snake fell limp, blood pooling in the dirt. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

From there, we read about Hercules killing that snake with his friend Eye-o-laus. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve slipped between the cracks like snakes. Infiltrating our ranks. Supplanting the best of us like weeds.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A nearly extinct breed of giant snake particular to the island leapt onto the sand, blocking the path. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Another little water snake swam up the pool, turning its periscope head from side to side. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama yelled something to him about a snake. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only problem with that legend: the warrior who learned the snake song had to sacrifice his wife for the power. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He hissed at her like a snake, and Juana stared at him with wide unfrightened eyes, like a sheep before the butcher. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its tongues wriggled into the booth, snaking around my arm, my waist, then around my neck, squeezing tighter and tighter until I couldn’t breathe. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

As the train snaked eastward, Smith abruptly made a change in plans. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cord snaked in through our window, which was cracked just enough to let it pass under. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the stylus before realizing it was entwined with a pair of tiny green snakes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he’d look for places where snakes hang out, like in the brush or tall grass or something. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They wrap their sharp bodies around crewmen like snakes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

JB’s a shooter, but I’m sneaky and silky as a snake — and you thought my hair was long. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

She imagined it lighting up, becoming a sword, turning into a snake made of light, anything that would get her out of here…. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I wonder what made the snake explode? You think it was that battery thingie?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then again, he wasn’t exactly sure what kind of evidence snakes left behind besides snakeskin—but nonetheless, he hadn’t found any. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Be mindful of snakes sleepin’ in that dead wood, Stella,” Mama warned. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A pink ribbon sways like a snake above my face. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She sits in front of the fire in her bedroom, drinking a cup of nettle tea from a clay mug shaped like a snake, its tail coiling to make the handle. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t help thinking of the story she’d told Jason - about the Cherokee hunter who had broken his taboo and turned into a snake. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She had the top down, of course, and we made wind snakes off the sides, our arms rising and dipping with the rush of air. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The patterns on the snakes’ skins were perfect, repeating endlessly in coils and stripes and ovals and diamonds, in all the colors of the island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Light exploded, and the snake coils fell away from her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I liked to do that, study those old snakes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran to her, clutching his rake, worried that she had discovered a dead animal, or a snake. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Him that talked about the snakes. He was down there-" A tree exploded in the fire like a bomb. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

While we waited for her to return, the clown and the snake girl debated the best ways to torture Caul. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Uncle Kufa made them in the shapes of snakes, animals, and people, and sold them at the trading post. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One snake did all this to one family.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Lately, we had danced there, skeleton and snake pressed against the walls. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jake pointed up at a stream of stars snaking across the sky between the mountains. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There are poisonous snakes all around here,” she said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He took a simple blade of grass and whipped the snake on the back, leaving it paralyzed, he then grabbed it by the head and snapped its spine. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

A snake crawled out from under the house. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she could walk farther, my mother rambled over the fields and meadows, in a weaving, snaking pattern, as if she could not make up her mind which way to turn. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

On the walls of Qarth, men beat gongs to herald her coming, while others blew curious horns that encircled their bodies like great bronze snakes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The word had an electric crackle to it; saying it aloud produced the same feeling you got when you grabbed a snake in your bare hands. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There is much in your constellation that isn’t clear. The snake that sought to protect you, for instance. I don’t suppose you have any idea who that magician might be?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“He had turned into a big snake,” Uncle Kufa said with satisfaction. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hungry Joe was a jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone and twitching veins squirming subcutaneously in the blackened hollows behind his eyes like severed sections of snake. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

After his mother died, he stuffed live snakes into bottles to imprison his anger. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The poisonous coral snake is bright yellow and red. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

My hands were trembling, my breath rasping as if I had run a long distance or come upon a coiled snake in a busy street. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not that faithful. I volunteered for the praise band because I was scared of the snakes.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A hose snaked across the bottom of the crater to the middle, where a steel-and-aluminum fountain rose from the bottom to eye level. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The tunnels snake around Sing Sing, joining the various buildings, and at the beginning and end of each—sometimes even in the middle—there is a locked gate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we squatted face to face, I studied his wide-set eyes and tried to teach him English words—palm tree, house, run, walk, lizard, snake. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of her was the ChemLawn man in his white jumpsuit, holding the end of a hose that snaked back to the can-shaped truck parked at the curb. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

And so she barked with foxes and sang with birds and hissed with snakes. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The long curly cord snakes around and around her thin body, like a rope tying her to the stake. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the snake and winked, too. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He dangled it near the snake, and then tossed it on the floor. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Oh, the music of evil sang loud in Kino’s head now, it sang with the whine of heat and with the dry ringing of snake rattles. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t mention her and I won’t speak of your Lumumba shattered with machetes like this poor snake and thrown in pieces into an abandoned house in Elisabethville, with the blessings of my hateful homeland. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odenigbo bashed the snake with a stick and told her he would make sure the zinc sheet at the entrance of the bunker was more secure. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tidbit laughed, dropped to the ground, and pretended to slither like a snake. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body was as long and powerful as that of a snake, but he had four heavy, squat legs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had discovered that the presence of a certain bird meant that a snake was nearby, and that a certain shrub was a sign that there was water in the area. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toomer had stopped, hunted for a stick, and with great deliberation had marked a large “X” across the track of the snake. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The winding black river stretched out before them like a slithering snake. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

If she truly explained her worries about the changing sky, the snake—if she told him that she feared she’d broken the island...that the sky might actually fall, like in the rhyme? Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They snaked around a giant ocean tank like a school of mottled, neon-colored fish. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The willow’s unharmed branches snaked toward Sigurd, keeping a distance from him but ready to whip at him if needed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Silhouetted by lantern light, he stretched, and a long shadow snaked out to cloak the watching fox. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My fingers were wrapped ’round the neck of the worstlooking snake in Canada West! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

That was Jormungundr, the Midgard serpent, the snake who goes around the center of the world. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon tried to be a snake like the other two, but gave up after half a minute and became a mouse instead, and cuddled close against Lyra’s neck. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Places where you wouldn’t think it was natural for a snake to be. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or him sitting in the tattoo parlor, his ear taped forward so it wouldn’t get in Tori’s way as she drew a snake on his skin. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

To Farid they looked like the tracks left by snakes slithering across the sand. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It snaked around the Sitka spruces and the hemlocks, the yews and the maples. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed to snake between the inner and outer walls of the house. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He snaked his head closer to study her face and then pulled back, looking confused. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s not true. Even animals—even eels and gophers and snakes and spiders—are sacred.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The gentle whoosh of liquid snakes through the tubes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I’d ever loved anyone, and I wanted to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Large snake. Large dogs. Men with swords. But then ... we got close to here. Grover was excited. He ran. Then we reached this room, and he fell. Like this.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

When I go inside, covered in sweat, I pass Oak, who is running somewhere, dragging my stuffed snake after him on a dirty rope. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Like a snake striking, a ghostly hand darted through the fog and clutched his arm. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Large snakes can live for more than a year without food. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

And some snakes weren’t venomous at all and spent their days eating crickets and mice and finding a nice sunny rock to lie on. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The sound he had heard was now quite loud, and before much time had passed he saw the head of the great snake appear from a crack in the rocks. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The rattlesnakes liked to lie there in the early spring, when the days were still cool and the sun warmed the black lava rock first; the snakes went there to restore life to themselves. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The line snaked far back, until the people were just tiny specks. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Tab always drew a funny bird, and Emily always drew a spotted snake. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I have no idea—what the devil are you—snakes and—I haven’t time for your childish—,” he sputtered. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the village goldsmith and had her heavy wedding ring melted down and made into a thin bangle with snake heads that she put away for Rahel. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His adventure with the snakes when he was a baby is told by Pindar in the fifth century and by Theocritus in the third. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they passed through the waiting room, the statue of Hygeia was sitting on a bench, pouring acid on her face and singing ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’, while her golden snake gnawed at her foot. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She seemed to know everyone in the line that snaked through the security checkpoints. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The snakes might be stinking by the time Mama called on him to empty his pockets, but they’d be dead. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snake, on the other hand, was curled up on the rotting hearth rug, like some horrible travesty of a pet dog. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“You could charm the skin off a snake, you scoundrel,” she growled. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around, then points to another snake, soaking up the last sun of the day on a limb of the dead tree. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they emerged and the leader of the jealous girls took the makgabe of that girl and threw it into the river, near a place where a very large snake lived on the riverbank. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

In his hand, he grasped a snake by the tail. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘At that his breath came like the hiss of snakes, and all who stood by shuddered, but Dáin said: “I say neither yea nor nay. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A tangle of golden-brown snakes writhed among one another, twisting and coiling in an indistinguishable mass. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The snake reared up and slammed its head repeatedly into the floor. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But the first time he showed her how to climb down the jagged steps, Olanna saw a snake coiled in a corner. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But even as she shushed her Cares, Jinny had to admit that something about the rigid snake scared her too. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He scans the murky water for the green snakes that sometimes skim across the waves. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But when he opened his mouth the first line sallied forth sounding like a mouse being squeezed to death by a king snake. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And you fell asleep and a snake came along and ate the flower." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

According to local legend, the woods were crawling with snakes, raccoons, and wild boars. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A trail of gray smoke snaked up to the sky, merging with the clouds. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

No one noticed the poisonous coral snake—until a camarada’s bare foot almost stepped on it. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t imagine Capricorn being afraid of a woman, certainly not one who got out of breath when she climbed a hill and was scared of snakes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In a few moments she ceased to flap, and hung upside down, revolving slowly, looking ignoble and indignant and ridiculous, holding her head the right way up like a snake’s. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though there were plenty of flies and mosquitoes, I had a chance of avoiding ants and snakes and leeches. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was in the crowd that was witnessing the sad spectacle of the man who had been turned into a snake for having disobeyed his parents. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They pronounced a litany of names to the mass of snakes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least I think it was him? It was just a giant snake tail. But it felt like him?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A policeman waved me out of the snake of traffic and flagged me to a stop. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It fell to the floor, hot and steaming and wiggling like live snakes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hissing snakes and the angry bees, the empty nets, and Loo. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Anansi bowed, then studied the snake and the wooden pole, comparing the two. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The silk ripples out behind her in waves, and jewels crawl in a pattern up her arms like snakes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A single blue current of electricity snakes up the door closest to me before fizzling out. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

By Tuesday afternoon the line snaked almost the length of the parking lot and 366 fans were in it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see rivulets of liquid snaking from his sleeve down his arm. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He stood back; he watched me as though I were a snake. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie set his pen down and snaked the spiraled wire out of the first few holes in his notebook, holding it up to his mouth trying to imagine what it felt like to be Ernie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I watched it move like a snake—a slow, casual snake hand—with a gold varsity ring on one finger. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget to check the water for snakes!” said Ekon to her retreating back. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

So he cut it off, buried it in the bottom of his backpack, a dead fabric snake. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Rabbits and snakes, pheasants and mice...all creatures killed. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He snaked an arm under Tyler’s head, wrapped up one of his legs. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But tranquil as she was, she was terrified of snakes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The road wound away from it toward Capricorn's village like a slow-moving snake. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Just listen to what I say. That woman’s no good. She’s a snake, and can charm you like a snake, but still a snake.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the rough and welcome hugs, Petey snaked a hand free for a shake from TimeStar, who asked, “What happened to you?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Deep crevasses snaked across their path from time to time. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It made a hissing sound like a snake. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in preschool, and a teacher accidentally put me down for a nap in a cot that a snake had slithered into. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

His father gives him a slight, sad smile and turns away, holding the snake above his head, triumphant, before handing it off to an elderly sister. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Yarn and needles and buttons and the toady-frog and the half knit sweater flewed all over the stoop like your guts do after you been hoop snake bit! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I could tell that she didn't like snakes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picks up her armband, which was twisted up like a snake on her bed, and starts pulling it through her fingers. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

This snake—or fish, or whatever monstrosity it was—was red, and it had a row of spines along its back. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Whenever one came near him, his hand would shoot out quick as a striking snake to close around it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When I dragged the crayon across the paper, it left a trail in its wake like a slithering blue snake. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Two police cars showed up and the buses made their way to the stadium in a swirling wind that sent little veins of dust down the empty road like slithering snakes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luna had an image in her head of a woman with long black hair, writhing from her head like snakes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Within minutes a procession had formed, which began to snake its way up through the garden toward the marquee. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Lucy took me to the pet store so I could see the snakes and she even arranged for me to hold one. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The better to spy and kill our friends the snakes when they come calling, we are told. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trenches snake below them in an endless net, German positions on one side, Russian positions beyond. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One woman with a snake tail cursed loudly as she wrestled with her cart. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m not afraid of snakes or worms but I am afraid of these bloomers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Behind his head, still swirling and coiling, the great snake Nagini floated in her glittering, charmed cage, like a monstrous halo. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There’s a building that looks like a meeting hall, another with a doctor’s snakes carved into the front, and two barnlike buildings that look like storage. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He used his two legs to walk across the floor and undulated his long body like a snake, helping to push himself along. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But this time I remembered to turn the snake’s neck a-loose and throwed it down. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I reached for my sword, but when I looked down, there was no snake. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Did Neil think I was another disposable girl from the long line snaking outside his door? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Over the doorway was one of those doctor’s symbols, a winged pole with two snakes wrapped around it. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow the olive branch she’d extended had turned into a snake and bitten her. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The snake moved to coil itself next to the Sea King’s throne. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I do not have an inordinate fear of snakes, not even rattlers. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And when Gwen snaked her arm into hers and whispered, “Come upstairs and get dressed — you are coming with us tonight,” she did not object. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was slick against his skin like the scales of a snake, too cold. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I take hold of the snaking fur stole around her shoulders and draw her close. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the dark shadows of the trees slid over him, he stopped again, staring at the front door, to which somebody had nailed a dead snake. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Normally I hate him because he’s as mean as a snake during the season when he’s starving to death, trying to make weigh-in before the meets. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he yelled the snake fell, hissing wildly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There are uncountable snakes at the base of the tree, biting at the roots. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They were smooth, sleek, and slithery, the way a talking snake would sound. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.’ Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

So here I was ruining back and hands, picking rocks and building my own wobbly rock fences while Mr. Whiskers chased after the garter snakes I scared up. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

One day, when it was time to eat, she went to get it, and when she reached under the log, a snake bit her! Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks like a sick snake,” he added ruefully. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Sassur had to come to our room with a big branch and beat the invading snakes to death. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

People said he carried another mamba in his pocket as a charm, and this snake was too afraid to bite. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

‘Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to choose, Mr. Frodo. I had to come with you.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My blood pressure was that of a cold snake. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Then I took a stick and drew lines on the ground from my sleeping place to the spring where I had met my new neighbor, the snake. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A big, jagged hole snaked along the starboard side near the bow. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

To some suddenly it seemed that they saw a snake coiling itself to strike. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The next morning, on his way to school, Jake noticed a long line snaking out of the corner bodega, a small grocery and convenience store where people bought their coffee, bagels, and egg sandwiches. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He took not the slightest notice of Wormtail, who lay twitching and bleeding on the ground, nor of the great snake, which had slithered back into sight and was circling Harry again, hissing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Isa shook her head, taking the bag as if it were filled with snakes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Dread coiled within her like a snake, but she forced herself to smile at this man she loved, this man who put no faith in signs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Many contestants were bitten by venomous snakes or went insane from thirst. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Used to be little snakes in this field in the summertime and we’d catch them. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, in a swift, brutal motion, like a monstrous snake swallowing its prey, the men swept Amah into the blackness of the night. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Except for her hair, which was a nest of coral snakes instead of green vipers, she looked exactly like her sister. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Though I must admit I’ve never really looked at that story from the snake’s point of view.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Even as Harry watched, the chains on the arms of the chair glowed suddenly gold and snaked their way up KarkarofFs arms, binding him there. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, Dallas and Florida gathered up dozens of ants, seven spiders, two garter snakes, and a frog, and that evening they deposited these treasures in the beds of the Burgerton boys. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She reached down, pulled up a snake, and gave Gramps a puzzled look. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I would have me a snake too if I could, because I’m not scared of them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outer was red sandstone, thirty feet high and decorated with animals: snakes slithering, kites flying, fish swimming, intermingled with wolves of the red waste and striped zorses and monstrous elephants. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her eyes glowed red, and her hair was a writhing nest of bright green snakes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He felt like they’d prodded the poisonous snake about as much as they could and the snake was about strike back. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My brother asks if there are any poisonous snakes in India, and Mr. Banerji, now much more at ease, begins to enumerate them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She spotted the snake guys slithering along the docks, winding through crowds of mortal tourists who paid them no attention. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He will leap back as the sea snake’s head tumbles onto the battlefield. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Something slithered in Emily’s belly, as if a snake were winding its way around her stomach. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The snakes and the sword are bits of broken symbolism left over from the time before. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have a snake because a mongoose wants to kill a snake. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Japanese were snaking through the low palmettos toward the last few marines on Wake Island. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the rattlesnake cage the snakes lay with their chins resting on their own coils and they stared straight ahead out of their scowling dusty black eyes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra was busy looking at all the life in the forest, from woodpeckers to squirrels to little green moss snakes with diamonds down their backs, and Will needed all his energy simply to keep going. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyson darted to one side, but the snake used its head like a club and knocked him off his feet. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

For a moment they seem to be one snake and not two, and then they separate again, moving down along the sides of the basket, gliding onto the ground quite close to your feet. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Idly, she picks up the snake and flicks the forks of its felt tongue. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One, with entwining snakes on the spine, was called Erotosexual Pair Bonding. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Incarcerated men would trap rats, poisonous spiders, and snakes they found inside the prison to pass the time and to keep safe. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Dragon-like lizards and snakes seven feet long slithered through the undergrowth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Australia, people have seen spiders eat birds, centipedes eat snakes, snakes eat crocodiles, crocodiles eat children. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Gray and white strands snake through dark hair. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Can’t we take the horse?” said Matt, looking doubtfully at the streambed snaking into the hills. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Texas desert, snakes come out to hunt at night, when it is cooler. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Elinor hadn’t been able to reconcile herself to the idea of another walk all the way down through the thorny hills where the snakes lived. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A gate loomed up, a black iron snake coiled tight about bar and post. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Some rely, instead, on superstitions: Take a pregnant woman with you, and the snakes will sleep as you pass by. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He was never one of those backwoods ministers who urge the taking up of copperhead snakes, baby-flinging, or the shrieking of nonsense syllables. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quick as a snake, the sheriff’s boot lashes out, hitting me in the shoulder. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They crawl along the floor like golden and white snakes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Separating the huts from the trees was a wide stretch of bare ground, which he knew would be inspected each morning for the footprints of rodents or the looping trails of snakes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Standing up like that? I see what you mean. That is odd. But he’s still just a snake. Okay? Snakes don’t bite. That only happens in stories. Our snakes are nice snakes.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t found the first bit of evidence that there were any snakes in the woods. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He ran as fast as he could, but the snake just laughed at those short legs and drew closer and closer to the fleeing boy. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And then Harry saw it: Scratched on the side of one of the copper taps was a tiny snake. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The troop erupted with shrieks when someone encountered a snake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hercules Guide to the Mare Nostrum didn’t help much with snakes and mosquitoes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

More monsters surged forward—snakes and giants and telkhines—but the Minotaur roared at them, and they backed off. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We both walked and hunged our heads low as the belly on a fat snake and didn’t talk ’bout nothing. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

"Can you wake the dead, girl? Your brother Rhaegar was the last dragon, and he died on the Trident. Viserys is less than the shadow of a snake." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I feel a tear snaking down my cheek. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Their faces were still those of beautiful humans, but their bodies had turned into long, black snakes! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

An elderly man had come hurrying out of the cottage, banging the door behind him so that the dead snake swung pathetically. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I felt only a dark dread snaking along the cables. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

That snake mouth had snapped shut on his nose, driving the fangs in so deep that it was a full minute before he could sling the bloody head loose. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

And giant banners with snake symbols upon them descend over the stage. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

We found two trees where we could keep our eye on each other and I said, “By, do you think there are snakes out here?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, he was never able to describe what he had seen: something huge, yes; something with the body of an enormous snake, but with the head of a what...? The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Sounds softheaded to me. Could be snakes up there.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it She look me over from head to foot. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard enough for him to come out of total isolation at Garland without having to be dropped into the snake pit that was middle school. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

When I remember the C I got on my last algebra test, it feels like snakes hatching and slithering in my stomach. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The man with the knife was still cleaning his fingernails when Joseph moved around the front of the truck, grabbed the arm with the knife and shook the guy like a dog shaking a snake. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Bending over him, the old man touched his back with a long white feather, held it up for a moment, crimson, for the people to see, then shook it thrice over the snakes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The landscape turns more and more desolate—sand and scrub brush, jackrabbits and snakes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We get three seconds Of pinwheels, whistling banshees, Some cones and pyramids That stink but won’t work, And black pills That vomit snakes Of ash. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basement was full of snakes, but that didn’t worry me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He snakes down the walkway, shouting for Byrd until he finds her, curled over a planter that is missing its plants. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Usually, the wizard would quickly cut off the head of the guilty snake, but this time, the dead man took pity and allowed the cobra to live. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was located on the edge of Paradise, backing up against Joe Louis Lane, a dirt path that snaked through the back alleys of the black community. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once saw a small green snake rub itself against a stone until its old skin peeled away, transparent and thin as paper. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But that woodpile over there is now home to mice and bugs and snakes. And it’s just waitin’ to keep us warm. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When I was six, my grandfather had inserted a medicine into my skin that protected me from snakebite and enabled me to control snakes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even his snake feet looked angry, baring their fangs and hissing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now Roberto Vega was bouncing his head as if jazz were being played somewhere not far away and the congregation was coiling slowly like a snake, waiting for the Holy Spirit to strike. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It is a dull twisting that snakes through me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Frank felt proud of himself until he looked at his bow, which was steaming where it had touched the snake. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had held a snake before, and the texture of Nero’s scaly skin was quite similar. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Chronicler stood impassively throughout the introduction, watching Bast as if he were a snake. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The line of javelins chewed through the enemy like a set of giant teeth, felling ogres and snake women and hellhounds. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Of course the tigers sometimes caught them, or a snake bit them, but on the other hand they didn’t have to deal with automobile accidents and industrial pollution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were not attacked by any people or snakes or desert foxes or scorpions, so I think we’re going to make it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The writhing snake hung limp again with the rest. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You know the beginning of my story, but what about after? Did you ever wonder what happened to the snake that ate the flower of immortality?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Roaches here, mice, flies, lice and even a snake or two. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rested under a musasa tree and idly snaked a long piece of grass into a termite hole. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ice cube snaked down his arm and found its way to Marigolds wrist, where it promptly wedged itself under her Talent bracelet. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And it ain’t got nothing as bad a rep-a-tation as a snake; it don’t get nowhere near the ’mount of talking ’bout in the Bible that snakes do. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Auntie told them she would whip them if they didn’t stay away from that place, because there were snakes around there and they might fall in. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then a dark shape brushed by me and I knew it was one of the Five Evils, a swimming snake. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snakes had made him able to understand the language of all flying and all creeping creatures. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

To their right, snaking along the top of a hill, was a long brick wall with notches at the top for archers—maybe a medieval defensive line, maybe Ancient Roman. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Zola, who is in the bushes hunting for snakes, seems to reply for Mr. Pomodoro with an air puff that escapes from her feet up through her whole body to her mouth. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Martell was dancing in a vipers’ nest, and he did not even see the snakes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were plenty of scorpions and snakes here, but they were all dead, floating in bottles filled with alcohol. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He speaks through the snakes and he speaks unutterable things. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A moon, a cup, and now a snake.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire snaked around to the side of the pot, still a wild orange, spewing fumes; it had not yet stabilized to a clean blue. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was not afraid of frogs or snakes or the other things that demon girls were supposed to be afraid of. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Eblis walked up and kissed the king on his shoulders, two things happened: The devil disappeared into a sudden burst of smoke, and the king grew two snakes from his shoulders. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“The fire snake mourned for the loss of his mother, blaming himself,” I say. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her breath was hot and animal on my face, and a delicate rainbow snaked its way slowly from deep within her throat and out past her lips. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A long trail snaked through the property, marked with different-colored mile markers. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

His first instinct was to call it a snake, a name largely attributed to its thick serpentine body and dark brown scales. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The sound of water changed to a chorus of hissing, like ghostly snakes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Petrosian’s style was closed and defensive, like a motionless but watchful snake, ready to strike the moment his opponent made the slightest mistake. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Or parachutes, in a world that is otherwise full of snakes, and leopards, and Committee men, tornadoes, bullies, and death. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The snake said, Freedom is through my lair. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sweat snaked down his forehead as it finally clicked in his mind, and both panic and joy erupted within him as he turned and faced down one of the hallways. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The line was so long that it wound all around the big, grassy courtyard, all around the tall barbed-wire fence and snaked all the way down the wide, tarred road. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your final rite of passage requires you to retrieve your name without being bitten by one of the snakes. We will proceed alphabetically, by surname.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There’s even a babbling stream that snakes its way through the room, but there are no fish—at least no real ones. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The last time he had played the electric guitar in front of anyone was in front of his father, before his father decided not to hand him the snake. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

There are two great identical snakes on a Levantine libation vase of around 2000 B.C., coiled around each other in a double helix, representing the original generation of life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy sounded pleased that Roy knew what kind of snakes they were. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dark eyes snaked along her body, then found her face again. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And the Tennessee Department of Wildlife did take custody of the snakes after his arrest. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Something slithered in Emily’s belly, as if a snake were winding its way around her stomach. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ghohg had installed his own magical early-warning system: long, monstrous nerves that snaked through the hills and would jolt when a distant guard stomped on the other end. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Got it,” he says and picks up a half-eaten black- snake. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had tried, once, to tease and frighten her with a snake, only to discover that she loved garden snakes. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

From under her clothes a small black snake, which had bitten Kamala, crawled away. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Ryan’s hand is snaking its way up my shirt again, and I pull away. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Exhausted, Chuck Muckle leaned over and squinted at the mutilated toy snakes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could fee1 warm ooze soaking into my sock, little dying snake heads tugging at my shoelaces. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

His sketchbook falls to the floor, and he nudges it under his bunk with a quick foot, as if it's a snake. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

So he just looked out for snakes for the both of them. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Travis’s stomach had started to feel like it had a snake or two writhing around in it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Even when they were caught in the rain, their braids still hung down straight like tamed snakes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was moving fast—fast like a dancer in a temple ritual, fast like a snake in the Red Desert, fast like water down the side of a mountain. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Rumors of a fever near the docks snaked through the city. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They bite. They can be as mean and dangerous as a guard dog. They even kill and eat snakes.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he crashed against it, the gate shuddered and the snake clanked and slithered and held. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Uncle Pete, who was usually as dormant as a snake while digesting, was now animated and jovial. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He smiled, and the whip snaked down at the pyre, hissing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One tiny snake twisted itself up and launched at Mr. Whiskers. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

From his palm, a ribbon of black spilled out, snaking across the floor and seeping into the walls. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Drogon's long neck snaked out and he opened his mouth to scream, steam rising from between his teeth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her legs looked like they were tangled in vines, but then I realized they were sprouting snakes, hundreds of vipers darting around, constantly looking for something to bite. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t like a snake if you met one,” said Jule. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The snakes seemed to be drowsy, and this time Mortola did not put on a glove before she lifted them out. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The track snaked uphill and led to a flat field where poplars and cottonwoods soared and wild bushes grew in clusters. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But as these thoughts passed through Siddhartha’s mind, he suddenly stood still, as if a snake lay in his path. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

They snaked around my wrist and up my arm, digging into my skin, and Uncle Cotton leaned in close. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I like stuff like frogs and snakes and bugs,” Claudia said simply. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The radio a live mass of wire oozing from his trunk, a seething congregation of snakes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studied Tyrion as a man might study a talking snake. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I know a lot about snake bites, so just show me your stupid arm.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He realized that something had left him, like the old skin that a snake sheds. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waved my other hand, the one attached to the arm that had the snake’s tail wrapped around it. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“She gave you the feeling of a snake. I seen her here with me own eyes. By night she’d come. I seen her.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His body is bunched, a snake ready to strike. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Did his father have some connection to snakes? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The boy was as quiet as a snake. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Another tried to snake around the edge of the table, but Ayanna’s staff, flaring with golden light, struck out and jabbed it in the collar until it disintegrated into a tinkle of blackened fragments. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“How do you know it won’t”—I shivered as the snake’s waving head brushed my calf—“kill me?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

We snaked through winding roads where the trees leaned close, rustling rush, rush, rush, rush, rush. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

This is like a dissection, seeing the inside parts that let the snake eat and breathe and make energy and waste. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Lord of the Jungle,” hissed all the snakes in unison, as though the question and the answer were part of a well-known ceremony. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The queen's private passageways snake from the piers back into her chambers, which are connected to Charlotte's room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

His dad stopped their old truck and pointed to a snake in the Conejos Junction road. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horan liked the soups and the rice, but he didn’t dare try the other food they served, with cooked snakes, frog legs, and other animals hunted from the jungle. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the van kept snaking its way toward the Lincoln Tunnel. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He set the ingredients on the desk, carefully avoiding the snake’s mouth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Beyond the yard there's collards and corn growing a scarecrow, black snakes, and whip-poor-wills. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Just as Lucas was suggesting that we go check out the live snake exhibit, I saw Ada Taylor walk up to the Quit Man and give him a peck on the cheek. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I saw his finger slowly curling around the trigger and it was trembling like a snake about to strike. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The snake turned and looked at them with tiny eyes like knotted black threads. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

As it fell, the snake’s expression was one of surprise, as if it had shown up to work only to find someone else sitting in its desk and using its stapler. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I killed a snake this morning, just whacked it into pieces with my machete and flung all three of them up in the trees. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept a good yard between them, ready to run quick as a snake if he made a grab for her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A dozen of Luke’s assorted goons—snake people, Laistrygonians, demigods in battle armor—had gathered to watch us get some “hospitality.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

That Joey Witter got in trouble for bringing his pet snake into class. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tyson picked up a boulder and threw it at the monster, smacking it between the eyes, but the snake just recoiled and hissed. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She wanted to die, but she did not want snakes crawling all over her first! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the kitchen, the coffeepot gurgles, and the smell of afternoon espresso snakes its way through the house. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Once she insisted that the devil had taken the form of a hoop snake with its tail in its mouth, and had rolled after her down the mountain, hissing that it would claim her soul. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bearded lady taught her to play the mandolin, and the snake charmer said she was a natural. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

With a wild swing of the shovel he knocked over the bucket, and commenced flailing and hacking at the snakes in a blind, slobbering fury. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it was a snake,” she said hopefully. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window ledge where I once watched the soggy fairies and chilblained snowflakes, breathing in the smell of snakes and antiseptic and mice, is now empty air. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed his Transvice at the broken window, where a man’s arm had snaked through the narrow gap and was groping along the walls. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But Piper was certain the snake king was hiding his true intentions. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I started to tell them that I’d seen the snake—that I’d been seeing it all year in the science hallway—but they pressed on, sweeping the conversation away. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The snake lifted its ugly triangular head and hissed slightly as the legs of the chair snagged on its rug. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As he turned his head from side to side, snakes dropped from his dreadlocks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There were no female birds on Mount Athos, no female snakes, no female dogs or cats. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I had hardly left the city when I ran over a large snake slithering across the road. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sent it loose and the loops unwound between her gloves as the rope shot out like a snake she had once seen unwind itself in pursuit of a mouse frozen in terror. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The snake is a gift from Mars,” Frank growled. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A shiver passed over him as he saw the end of a long yellow snake disappear into the branches of a tree a few yards away from them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Melissa and Kelly laughed at the playing monkeys, shuddered past the slithering snakes, cooed at the baby grizzly bears, and stared at the tigers’ teeth. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Tell him about the time you put a grass snake in the boys’ hut.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A giant snake . Someone would’ve seen . Harry, however, pointed at the word Hermione had scribbled at the foot of the page. “ Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Dark clouds of ash spew out of the top, and red lava snakes down the side of the mountain. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

They have grumbling lions with gleaming teeth and a snaking line of elephants, each clutching the limp tail in front of her. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The snake lady made a hissing noise that might’ve been laughter. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He twisted and saw a small bright-eyed snake, crimson in the fire's glow, with its fangs sunk deep into the back of his leather boot. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I tilt my head to see the snake tattoo wrapped around his ear. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Pasiphaë laughed with delight, knowing that any moment they would be crushed or bitten to death in a pit of snakes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her hair, at a closer inspection, is actually many little writhing snakes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice sounded flat and mean at the same time, the black gleam of a snake’s eyes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They called her name in loud whispers, not wanting to shout for fear of disturbing the snake. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And the whole time I was chasing things, I was thinking that Otis must be some kind of snake charmer, the way he could play his guitar and make all the animals turn to stone. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the overhead lines were first dragged down by explosions, the cables sparked and whipped like live snakes but the current soon ran out. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in a patch of withered yellow grass was a lime-colored snake as short and thick as Frank’s arm. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

From such a distance, the river looked like a thin band of silver or a sparkling snake that slithered its way across the land. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Fat men pressed their faces, snaked with purple veins, against her cheeks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust fell off the three statues—the leopard, the snake, and the god on the throne. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There they sat under an old gnarled oak that sent its roots twisting like snakes down a steep crumbling bank. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Afterward, sleepy and happy, I rested awhile by her side, admiring the solid curve of her hips and the shudder of her snake. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped his bow and picked up a sword from a fallen...well, he actually wasn’t sure what it was—some sort of reptilian lady warrior with snake trunks instead of legs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The snake had been hiding in the trees and struck the man’s head as he passed. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He ran away from her, away from the snake, away from the water, farther up and over the dunes. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I wrapped my fingers around the rough, bruising snake of a rope that slithered through them, and went up. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Tubes and cables snaked across his body, coiled into his flesh, and wound in a tangle up to an incomprehensible mesh of blipping waveforms and drip-dropping fluid pouches. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Mom, that snake is a myth now,” said Miles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Strange specimens peeked from the stacked crates: preserved lizards and snakes, foreign butterflies, live crocodiles, even an elephant! The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Its head jerked sharp, the teeth sank, Loo shrieked again and shook his leg violently, so that the snake flew off, like a rope tossed into the grass. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The snakes, with a soft hissing sound, were rising up on end and bowing to something behind Jane and Michael. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He watched the black snake crawl and glide until it became a thin silk thread in the distance and disappeared. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

In fact, I treat him as if he’s a real snake, the venomous kind. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a green coil curled in the shape of a snake, with a tail that billowed yellow smoke. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not by butterflies with wings as clear as little cats-eye glasses; not by the longest or shortest or greenest snake in the road. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it’s dark outside and you see a snake, or even if you just want to talk about one, you can’t say snake. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also had that hair thing around her head, but her hair was in braids and looked like snakes caught in a net. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But there were neither snakes, worms nor cigarettes in the box and its contents were very uninteresting. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wound around the fake plants set up in the room, draped over the wall clocks and basketball goals, snaked through the bowls of chips and cookies on the snack table. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She spits at the snake to show she means business corporate. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The little snake slid in among the reeds at the pool’s side. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer to the snake quiz is that only statements five and six are true. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

His heart is as strong and mean as a snake, too. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He slithered between the battering branches like a snake and placed his front paws upon a knot on the trunk. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Samuel said, “Have you got anything to put on it? Humans are more poisonous than snakes.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“On one leg is a spiraling black snake with a 666 in its open mouth, and a devil’s tail is twisting around his other leg.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Bando,” I say, “Pigs are omnivores. We’ve got to think snakes, fungi, grasshoppers, and big juicy moths as well as bulbs and roots.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, him and TaShon are jumping up and down trying to escape the water snake. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

But I was not afraid of spiders, snakes, and wasps. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

There he licked the hot blood off his fingers and watched as that ugly yellow cat calmly devoured a small water snake over by the irrigation ditch. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We believe especially in near-term causes: a snake bites your friend, he screams with pain, and he dies. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But in a moment Daniel pointed at the tent, and we saw smoke snaking from the back. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A myth from a totally different culture, yet here she was, facing the king of the snake people. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“The earthquakes disturbed thousands of snakes that had been living on the mountain. They came slithering down into Saint-Pierre. Some of them were venomous six-foot-long pit vipers. Hundreds of people died from bites.” I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing I couldn’t understand was why it was just poison oak and not a snake or something. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dangerous work, too, as poisonous snakes and scorpions hid in the grass. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upwards it wound, coiling like a snake, boring its way across the sheer slope of rock. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He could close his eyes and see them still: flames whirling from brick pyramids larger than any castle he had ever seen, plumes of greasy smoke coiling upward like great black snakes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The older neighborhood kids killed snakes and threw them in the garbage hole when it was burning and watched them sizzle and squirm. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rope—the rope to which Jonathan had been tied—remained tied to his ankle and flayed about like a writhing snake. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He knew there were snakes in the cages as well. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Only a man, one man and no other, who brought the snake in a basket or carried it stunned or charmed like a gift in his own two hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning snaked down out of a black sky. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat in the swaying belly of a transcontinental train, snaking west from New York. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bends down and whispers, “I’m Corporal Reynolds. Don’t do this again. There are snakes. And men who will shoot you.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I’m trying to get the soap on her fingers but she twisting and turning and she snake right out my arms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At Redwall he had learned of snakes from the talk of others. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

‘I think he means gemini like doubled - half man, half snake. That’s what his people are called. He’s a geminus, singular.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The snake batted the gun from Harris’s hands. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Blue-furred, orange-eyed, red-fanged, a tiger snarled upon his left biceps; a spitting snake, coiled around a dagger, slithered down his arm; and elsewhere skulls gleamed, a tombstone loomed, a chrysanthemum flourished. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snake blinked, sending the opaque tissue upwards. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The golden snake uncurled and dropped from her arm. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He laughed wickedly and threw the snakes into the tall grass on the hillside. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They say snakes go blind for a While before they shed skin for the last time. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no! No, the snakes would never bite you. Our snakes aren’t like the snakes in storybooks. Real snakes are safe. Here, anyway....” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He’d poke and poke and poke—standing at a distance, of course; he wasn’t stupid—until the snake raised its head and hissed, or whatever snakes did. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I know she was the last Egyptian pharaoh and died from a snake bite,” I said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As things got worse they ate their horses, dogs, and cats, and then any rat, mouse, or snake they could catch. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He knelt over the arching tracks the snake left in the sand and filled the delicate imprints with yellow pollen. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Face ashen, eyes wide, I sat like a bird locked in the eyes of a snake. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had to pass through the science hallway on my way to class, and that was when I saw the snake. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Genie looked out for snakes, and every time he heard a rustle, he tried to figure out where it was coming from. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He snaked his arms under Tad’s armpits and pulled. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

You hurried silently along the river bottom, stung by mosquitoes, hooted by owls, zoomed by bats, buzzed by snakes that rattled among the rocks, mud and fever, darkness and sighing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the snake shook its head, a deafening shout behind Harry made both of them jump. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They were eight-foot-tall giants with wild eyes, pointy teeth, and hairy arms tattooed with snakes and hula women and Valentine hearts. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The black snake slunk forward, and Pinmei saw it slide through the air, only an inch or so above the floor. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Arya could see a wisp of grey smoke drifting up off the torch, writhing like a snake as it rose. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Rachel, who sighted imaginary snakes at the least provocation, said, “Jeez oh man,” rolled her eyes, and announced her plan to pass the next twelve months in bed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s got to have the longest handle and a good strong fork on the end,” I say, “because that was the biggest, meanest snake I ever saw in my life.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A snake began to draw itself, coiling upward. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

When she had her handmaids char the horsemeat black, the dragons ripped at it eagerly, their heads striking like snakes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“But it is one thing to see a snake and another to touch it. I have never touched one before.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbed her flowers, maybe her snakes too, and just whipped the prizes into the air. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the Trask house next to Reynaud’s Bakery, Lee and Adam put up a map of the western front with lines of colored pins snaking down, and this gave them a feeling of participation. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a covered slide that wound around like a snake, sending kids flying through a dark tunnel. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It swirled around the Romans with a hissing sound, like a nest of snakes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He didn’t let on, but he also didn’t argue when Mr. Frederick reached over to return the snake to its tank. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But the snake’s undulating tail knocked it just out of reach. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The other mother looked healthier than before: there was a little blush to her cheeks, and her hair was wriggling like lazy snakes on a warm day. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“My mother is afraid of snakes,” she said at last. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was odd; a moment before his insides had been writhing like snakes, but suddenly he didn’t seem to have any insides at all. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Kaede began to creep down the slope, the rope snaking between them like an umbilical cord. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The short boy set off towards the hill where the great snake lived. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He said it in a low hissing way that told you whatever kind of snake this was, you didn’t want to run up on one! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

There has been, for many years, a running battle among jungle zoologists as to just which of the giant snakes is the biggest. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes dragged across the trees and fixed on a large snake wrapped around one of its branches. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The heart monitor beeped at the side of the bed, and two thin tubes snaked out of Father’s arm, connecting him to an IV stand. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Already your lungs have flown away like a bird and your guts have slithered away like a snake. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cuckoo stopped at this, her eyes narrow and bright as a snake’s eyes, and her voice smooth as oil flowing from a vessel. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not afraid of snakes or worms but I am afraid of these bloomers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You ask me what that was for? You dare to ask me that? I ought to cut you up into a thousand pieces, you snake. You...skunk!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A white snake in a jar of preservative stared blindly down at them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The stars are followed by a trio of attackers who spring from the smoke like coiled snakes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Laila got her to play snakes and ladders, and they ate shavings from blocks of dark chocolate, one of the few things they shared a common taste for. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was like one of those pictures of a snake eating its own tail. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We picked our way carefully through fear of snakes down a faint footpath to the edge of the trees to urinate. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at me as if I were a snake’s egg hatching, fumbling for his red pencil. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snake’s eyes were not shut but filmed over in sleep. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He backed away, but the molting showgirl of a snake wasn’t having it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He felt it was good for your soul to have buzzards and coyotes and snakes around. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the other shovel, and a copperhead snake crawled out from underneath it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m still not entirely convinced that I was hallucinating the night the floor of my hospital room transformed into a carpet of writhing snakes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was hair that could turn the Medusa to stone, hair snakier than all the snake pits in a minotaur movie. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered the snake and grabbed up my knees. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He said that snakes couldn’t help being snakes, and that Campbell, who could help being what he was, was something much lower than a snake or a rat—or even a blood-filled tick. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the ropes writhed uneasily, and suddenly Lenina saw that they were snakes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the surprise was three dudes with snake tails instead of legs. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Trees and sun and bushes and roots, squirrels and bugs and snakes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There's the trick he's going to play on her, the way he'll pretend to be somebody else and snake his way into her heart. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The Preacher said, “After they catch you and bite you..He snapped his left hand shut like it was the mouth of one of these hoop snakes. “...the true horror begins. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I got the roasting heat and the crocodiles and the snakes and the long safaris up-country, selling Shell oil to the men who ran the diamond mines and the sisal plantations. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the road snaked along the side of a cliff, and the only thing between us and the sharp drop was a piddly railing. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

With a couple of dozen drunken men at a time lurching across it, the catwalk bucked and heaved and swayed like a tormented snake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At the top hovered an embankment of rolling, snaking fog so dense it was like stepping into another world. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She would warn him before they started out again in the evening, for the snakes would come out then too. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He woke up the next morning in his car, having slept the whole night while parked in Rock Creek Park, a wooded area that snaked through the center of the city. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They listened to the slightest movement in the grass to learn whether a snake might be lurking there. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could sense the Sleer writhing and expanding, hear a noise like the scratching of a thousand dead twigs, as if something huge and muscular were snaking its way around the inside of the chamber. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Instead, they snaked along the canals that led deeper inland, toward the metals district. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

So she put a foot in where the snake had been. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It means that snake crossed my path on the wrong day.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brilliant snake's eyes that were set so deep in that dreadful rotting worm-eaten face glared unblinkingly at the witches who sat facing her. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

A stethoscope coiled like a snake inside a slotted Plexiglas wall bracket. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Within seconds a long line was snaking across the dance floor. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

At first he thought he was looking at some kind of pregnant sea snake or a constipated eel. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Byrd’s eyes move from Axel to the phantom snakes lurking in the dugout. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was said that even the Father Abbot himself would flatly refuse to treat a snake, no matter how bad its condition might be. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Three freckles on the back of a metal snake. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

From inside the snake, the swallowed girl had managed to crawl up. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When he got to the ditch, he saw no signs of the deadly sparkle-tailed snakes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurried back upstairs, praying that snakes couldn’t climb. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then the severed end snakes up to our feet. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He said it was the dreaming of snakes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, yes. But your new church is slightly less nutty, right? No snakes?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Roy said, “I’m almost afraid to ask, but what happened to your snakes?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There must be some way to escape the snake. Get hold of yourself, shrew. Think!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The Noise binds us all, young Todd,” he says, his voice slithering and shiny like a snake. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But she also remembered the way she had held all of that energy in her hands: as muscular as a snake, as powerful as a fistful of iron. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Oh, sure, one of the snakes said in my mind. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Another time, he brought a two-foot-long grass-snake into class and insisted that every boy should handle it in order to cure us for ever, as he said, of a fear of snakes. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Eve had to make a choice—the apple the snake wanted her to eat looked so good—just one bite. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The witch glanced toward the shining mahogany door facing the space full of pamphlet-makers; Harry looked too, and rage reared in him like a snake. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then he starts moving like he’s a snake. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sounds of the new morning had been replaced with grumbles about cheating houses, weighted scales, snakes, skimpy cotton and dusty rows. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On recognising him, the fang of the snake Jealousy was instantly broken; because at the same moment my love for Céline sank under an extinguisher. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

They shifted on their snakes and bobbed their heads respectfully. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if they had blundered into a nest of milk snakes or giant grave worms, soft and pale and squishy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I recognized the warm musty smell of snakes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There’s a rustling, a flash of black cape, and like a snake through the underbrush Mrs. Scatcherd is upon us. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I'm listening to all this from the tub, the water hotter than I can stand it, to waylay the cramps snaking into my calves after two brutal tennis matches that day. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He could feel the motion pushing out of the damp earth into the sunshine—the yellow spotted snake the first to emerge, carrying this message on his back to the people. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some also believe, mistakenly, that snakes cannot slither over the rails, so they sleep there for protection. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“And you think those—those snakes might be the problem?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I must admit, it was a little disappointing to find out that the snake wasn’t poisonous. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

As my charges waved their flags in approval, a gust of wind snaked down the street. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

One snake twined around the girl’s body, ssuh, and came up by her face. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Iron ivy snaked in and out of the holes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were dozens of little folding snack-tables, all covered with twisted tubes of paint, most of them crusted dry like shriveled snakes, but some of them alive and oozing ribbons of color. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

What was a good name for a snake? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Back in Georgia, there were many different kinds of snakes. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

This had certainly been a snake ball day. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The grass all over the hill hissed even louder, like one giant snake. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a large snake—as many of the rattlers in eastern Texas seem to be—and a solid direct strike. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The snake girl harrumphed and muttered something, and the python slunk away to coil around her neck again. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Timothy had checked for snakes. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with a flick of its tail, the snake vanished into the hole in the mountainside. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Oak? With his nurse,” she whispers, drawing me toward the little divan in one corner, patterned with a snake brocade and covered in a fur. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Never, never, never pick up a snake by its tail. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Unease snaked through her and twisted into an anxious, rustling coil. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Snape stepped forward, waved his wand, and the snake vanished in a small puff of black smoke. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Wisps of black smoke snaked around a pile of debris at the end of the hall. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He had struck at the “snake” only because he was afraid it might kill one of his goats. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Occasionally he poked at them hopefully with a stick that he kept propped up in the corner to defend himself against visiting snakes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he finished, the bar turned into a vicious yellow snake and the judge had to call his servants to get rid of it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Leo leaped to one side and the snake missed his head by an inch. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He imagines the vines carved into the lid coming to life like wooden snakes, lashing at him the moment he tries to lift it. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She was scareder of snakes than she let on, if you ask me. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the sleeve of Sir Charles’s linen jacket, past the snowy white shirt cuff, came the emerald head of a snake. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fearing lizards and rats, cockroaches and snakes, Shirley hastened to her father’s side. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

There he met leopards, snakes, and some creatures that were half animal, half person, and very dangerous. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Her arms, face, and legs have colorful tattoos of patterns, flowers, fruits, and snakes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

As though Byrd can read his very mind, she catches Axel, like snake to mouse, in her gaze. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Each minute Ann waited, a snake of worry twisted inside her. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The snakes flicked their tongues excitedly and turned their gold eyes in every direction, like dogs looking out the window of a car. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Lucky Girl was glad enough to have a place to crash that she had barely complained about the snakes and roaches and pigeon nests that they shared space with. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bamboo poles morphed into snakes, slithering up my ankles, with thousands of people in the audience pointing at me. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m lookin’ to find me a snake stick,” I say as if to myself. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was even excited in the snake house. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Wart went like a snake, like t coney, like a silent owL He was «m»n and the creature had no chance against him at this game. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was rippled just under the water, moving like a gigantic snake rather than a fish. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I heard he had him a pet snake one time that bit him and the next day the snake died.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So he raves, overflowing with meadbowl joy, and the older three priests look down at him as they would at a wounded snake. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river was folding gently before her like a silver snake, hissing as the water tumbled across a stony bed. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of snakes, coiled and twitching on the smooth pale rocks. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

By the time that the snake had eaten all the things that the boy dropped from the calabash, they were just outside the village fence. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

When Reginald visited me, he nervously moved about in his chair; he told me that each hair on my beard was a snake. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing between the snake women—I could swear he was looking straight down at me—was my old enemy Luke. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Hermione had come again, as she had come when the snake attacked....Yet it did not sound like her, not with those deep coughs, not judging by the weight of the footsteps.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He says this one so often, especially when it comes to Byrd and snakes. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A glittering inlet of the sea snaked between snowy mountains. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The words seemed to curl up in her belly—not moths now but snakes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Restrain me, Sairy,” Tiller said, “before I build a snake pit and dump a couple kids in it.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

But now, plump red tomatoes grew fatter every day, yellow flowers turned into bright green zucchini, and pole beans hung in clusters from vines that snaked up twine to form leafy tepees. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

"I will let you pass if you agree to bring me the ears of horrible Haiyi's old mother," the enormous snake hissed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The snakes flicked their tongues and writhed as if they didn’t appreciate holding up the weight of a giant. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the spell of the snake was broken. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

‘You is bitten by a snake!’ he shouted. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eyes slanted downward, never blinking, unfeeling as a snake’s. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair’s particularly bloodthirsty tonight, snaking all around the room, swarming the furniture, vining up the legs of chairs, stretching over the walls. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The faces reminded Piper of gorgons, except they had lions’ manes instead of snakes for hair. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"The first evil," the Old Man said, "is the Bashe snake. It lives underneath the Black Bridge. When a man or beast passes him, he swallows it whole." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Go rip out the neighbor’s sprinkler heads. Kill the snakes.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In the confined space of the snake’s den there was no room to wield the fabled blade. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A planet made of sparkles and glass and beats that make the aliens pump their fists and wave their arms around like snakes. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Maybe Massa Clay got loose and kill the snake,” she added fearfully. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m expecting snake lips, which is to say none. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They tramped up a hill and down into a heavily wooded valley, careful to avoid the black-and-red-striped snakes sunning themselves on the rocks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On the shelves stood glass bottles filled with preserved animals: snakes, lizards, toads, and many creatures Jule could not identify. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Crowds snake toward the White House, holding torches to light the way. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She shoves the snake into our woodpile and says, “Ciao, ciao. Avanti!” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The music increases in tempo, and now there is something harsher about the way the snakes move. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Harry moved in front of the tank and looked intently at the snake. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I said, “But, Ma, I ain’t looking to die even one time, ’specially not from no hoop snake bite! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

One snaked up her shirt and around her neck. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

A small, green snake slid along a branch, causing Nhamo’s heart to speed up, and disappeared into a crack in the bark. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had deep-blue feathers along its back all the way down to its tail, which seemed to split in two like a snake’s tongue. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As long as both snake and bunny never had to be roommates, I would’ve been cool with it. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I started to hear snakes and bears and other wild animals. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s not safe. The floors are in bad shape, and the cellar’s full of snakes. Copperheads, someone told me.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

So Set had to settle for some spiders and snakes painted on the wall behind him, and a dry bone that hung on a string above his head. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell him of the deadly snakes lying at one end of a rainbow and the hat full of gold lying at the other end. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He was pretty sure he hadn’t dozed off as a snake. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But the guys with guns are scarier than snakes. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The snake weighed on me like the heaviest piece of clothing I would ever wear. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Here the huge cliff-face sloped backwards, and the path like a snake wound to and fro across it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He frowned, turning his head and shaking out a few more snakes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Each had “luminous” eyes and a mouth surrounded by sixteen "whip-like tentacles” resembling a "gray snake.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Looking over his shoulder, the short boy saw where the snake was and heard its laughter. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The pointers came to the wire mesh of the kennel, wriggling like happy snakes and sneezing with enthusiasm, and even the sickly one came out of his house and fleered at us. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Basta reared up like a snake when someone has trodden on its tail. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Uncle Vernon rapped the glass smartly with his knuckles, but the snake just snoozed on. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He saw virus particles shaped like snakes, in negative images. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bolverkr transformed himself then: he turned himself into a snake, and the sharp auger plunged into the place where his head had been. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

More and more, black snakes and brown and mottled—he flung them out. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was the snake...or the snake was her...all along.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“A snake,” I whispered, bereft of voice and breath. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paced eagerly across the hill, snakes dropping from his green dreadlocks, his dragon legs stomping down small trees. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Little Tiber snaked across golden pastures where the unicorns were grazing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In between them, the snake stretched up, vertical, as though it had sprouted there, grown as a seed from the earth and now impossibly tall. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I watch in amazement as blue currents of electricity snake across the doors and along the walls. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

We never did figure out why the snake hadn’t bitten him, but Mama took no more chances on snakes. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late one night when Nancy was in her study, the snake oozed out of the rafters and hung in front of her face, staring at her with lidless eyes, and she screamed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did not the snake strike at once? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Said, ‘But you knew I was a snake, didn’t you?’ Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How do I know the snake will work?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She wedged the boat between the fig-tree roots that snaked down into the water, to keep it from battering against the rocks. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other snake bent over her mouth and poured the shining water inside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never finished the sentence, even in her mind, but the old anxiety snaked through her veins. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fig mirrored my lead, snaking in and out of my stride. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The sign of faith wasn’t that the snakes never bit you—it was that as sick as you became, you didn’t die from it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Imagine what it was like inside that snake,” Uncle Kufa said. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was our daddy. I think you always put up with him better than any of us. But he was mean as a snake. There’s nothing he got that he didn’t deserve.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did see what Anatole meant about the snakes and hens too close together in a place like that: you could trace the belly scales of hate, and come up howling. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of snakes slithered right above me, hissing like laughter. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Crowded into one-room church buildings, the faithful clutched live rattlers, copperheads, and cottonmouths to their bosoms or draped the snakes around their necks while they prayed in a spiraling frenzy of religious passion. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you mind dropping that thing?” he said to Gram, who was still clutching the snake. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“No gods down there, m’lord. Only rats and water snakes. White things, thick as your leg. Sometimes they slither up the steps and bite you in your sleep.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’s dropping liquid onto the curled straw wrappers to make the snakes squirm. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As Harry trembled, ready to close his eyes if it turned, he saw what had distracted the snake. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Who can be sure? But whatever the cause, the result is terrible. Sunshine is meant for men, darkness for bats and snakes and jackals and other such creatures.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The severed arm was wriggling out of its tom sleeve, a pale snake with a black five-fingered head. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The snake jabbed its tail at a little sign next to the glass. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

‘Uh, you know,’ Jason said, ‘getting sanitized by large snakes isn’t covered by our medical plan. Darn it.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“They couldn’t hurt a flea, them snakes. I taped their mouths shut.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were small holes in the dirt, holes where snakes and scorpions hid. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Past their feet they could feel all the snakes slipping and writhing as they hurried from the Snake House. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The snake inside her was lulled to sleep. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘He is bold and cunning. Even now he plays a game with peril and wins a throw. Hours of my precious time he has wasted already. Down, snake!’ he said suddenly in a terrible voice. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I crawl through a foot of water back to the last pedestal, putting it between the snake and me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Quick as a snake Shagrat slipped aside, twisted round, and drove his knife into his enemy’s throat. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The hoses Capricorn’s men had used to save their master’s house lay like huge snakes in the pools of water. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The giant snake hisses and bares it fangs, its beady yellow eyes glaring. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Dad said the snakes would be hibernating now, so after we practiced soccer, I would hike up the hill behind Stagecoach Pass. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was only fifteen miles to La Push from Forks, with gorgeous, dense green forests edging the road most of the way and the wide Quillayute River snaking beneath it twice. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was a snake charmer whose own snake had died. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They probably just want to make some more jokes about me being a snake charmer.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily, with a soft undulating movement at the knees and hips. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Arsenic creeps into the whole body,” Celia went on, her eyes as cold as the eyes of a snake. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To make her feel better, I learned everything I could about snakes. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mama was walking across the freshly mowed grass from the funeral home to the flower shop when she saw me snake past the corner of the shed. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I need. I need to find an enemy. Then I need you to turn him into a snake.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Matthias stared in horrified fascination at the broad slimy path that had been left in the mud by the snake. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Frogs, bees, snakes, and even bears would soon disappear and spend the next few months resting out of sight. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In his lap there was an enormous snake’s head, which he was patting. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All clear. No snakes. Just some regular old monsters under the bed, that’s it.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Seen from a car window they appear as fragments, evoking memories of woodchucks, badgers, skunks, voles, snakes, sometimes the mysterious wreckage of a deer. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was plenty scared now, with nine venomous snakes crawling around his feet. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was a snake,” Byrd says, her voice still high like a scream. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The snakes that curled up in her belly had moved into her hearts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Tendrils of black smoke have begun to snake into the hall. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The miniature storm swirled and stood before us like a charmed snake, flicking our hair into our faces, wrapping it around our necks, choking us—stealing our breaths. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He's still smiling when he settles the second on my head, but his eyes, just inches from mine, are as unforgiving as a snake's. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At the same time, a thin snake of disappointment wriggled its way through her chest. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be able to talk her into anything, especially if his father backed him up—but he didn’t know how his dad felt about snakes. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She clipped one end to Moss’s collar, then snaked the cord behind him and put the transmitter in his back pocket. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Tissue culture was the stuff of racism, creepy science fiction, Nazis, and snake oil. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“We saw the biggest snake you ever clapped eyes on. The father of all serpents! He had poor Ragear’s body by the feet and was dragging it along backwards.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Frederick called on her, she asked, “Can snakes hear?” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

His own voice coiled around him like a snake. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear there’s a bunch of snakes in the cellar,” the first policeman said.“And the floorboards are rotten in some of the rooms.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Baugi struck again with the auger, but the snake was gone, and he flung the drill from him angrily and heard it clatter on the rocks below. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Seconds later the two-headed snake emerges, coiling itself around the elephant’s leg. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I do. I hunt snakes and kill them with my bare hands.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The sloping-shouldered figure of Alecto Carrow was standing before him, and even as Harry raised his wand, she pressed a stubby forefinger to the skull and snake branded on her forearm. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The only living things I had met were monkeys, snakes, wild pigs, and deer, none of which I could have a conversation with. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then I’m staring directly into President Snow’s snake eyes as he greets the nation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The captain leaned against the wall, tracing two circles over the curve of his knee, in and out of each other like snakes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The snake had often gone hungry at times like these. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The traffic is slow on Main Street, not because Chokecherry is big enough to have a rush hour, but because the cars have to snake around the parked trucks and plows. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

"How about snake venom? Or poison? Doctors know lots of poisons that make it look like heart attacks." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It can speak through snakes and order that a president far away, after all those pebbles were carried upriver in precious canoes that did not tip over, this President Lumumba shall be killed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hissing sprinklers are actually snakes in disguise, and he’s training them to eat all the neighborhood pets—which makes some twisted sense, because I’ve heard him complaining about barking dogs. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

So I expected the clipboard lady to turn into a snake or a demon, or something, any minute. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Come,” the Sea King said to the snake, waving his hand. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

As soon as the first snake disappears from our view, another one comes winding along for those left behind to join. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never heard of poisoned snakes around Elsinore, nor had I read of any such creatures in Denmark. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I could see Puny-Tail just ahead of her, that little twist of hair in the back of her head like a snake tongue. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

A funnel cloud snaked its way down toward the hill like an inky black finger. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Diving under Aragorn’s blow with the speed of a striking snake he charged into the Company and thrust with his spear straight at Frodo. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The artist on this platform holds pieces of flame in her bare hands, and she forms them into snakes and flowers and all manner of shapes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Inside the shack was the fully assembled bomb, a huge gray globe held together by bolts, with wires snaking in and out all over its surface. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed toward a glittering green river snaking through the hills a kilometer away. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But when she came to the snake part, she got our attention. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Swallow a snake, jump in the lake, come back home with a bellyache. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cautiously I glide out over the edge and snake my way forward. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Natalie started shaking her head, her long hair whipping out like snakes. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Matthias was horrified to discover that it was full of cast-off snake skins. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The hollow eye sockets of the stone snakes seemed to be following him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

If it was full of anything, it’d be snakes and maybe a swamp monster or two. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The snake swung its head up, tasting the air. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He steadied himself as he reached for the slip, fingers extending toward the snakes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I jumped up, terrified, and she said, “No no, God, it’s just a garter snake.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. The overnight express business is just booming. Now, as I was saying—” “You have snakes on your phone.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the porch, a shaky-looking wooden table, its paint shedding like snake skin. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I think snakes are slick,” Tony said, playing with the sound of the letter S as he spoke. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mother set it on the desk in the living room, propped against the wall, and every time Mama Tataba walks by it she yelps like a snake bit her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely saliva from a snake’s actual mouth had to count for more than a rock, right? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was the lonely mountain and the snake, the pheasant in the mulberry tree. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The bag twisted and jerked as if it was full of snakes. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you can train the snakes to guard the property,” Chuck Muckle was saying, “since the dogs didn’t work out.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave you the feeling of a snake.... Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Vervets have been known to waltz into a thicket, ignoring a fresh trail of python tracks, and then act stunned when they actually come across the snake itself. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mundín faced us, his hands nervously working the snake into a rounder and rounder ball. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

People were afraid of snakes, too, but that just showed how cowardly people were. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Back in the meadow he had listened to bullfrogs, and woodchucks, and rabbits, even a few snakes, but he had never heard anyone speak like Tucker Mouse. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I returned home to Uruk and told my scribes the snake had stolen it. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“The second thing I learned when you lied to me,” hissed the snake to Baugi, who stood, astonished, holding the auger like a weapon, “was that you would betray me.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

His bloodshot eyes studied Nailer carefully, a snake waiting to strike. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a rumbling in the corridor they’d come from, and the head of an enormous snake burst into the cave. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But it's much too steep! And what about the snakes?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She tossed and turned, dreaming about dragons and ghosts, about fire and water, about snakes and hidey-holes. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Athena’s other hand rested on a shield as big as a billboard, with a sculpted snake peeking out from behind, as if Athena was protecting it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Not long like a snake, it was squat like a cinder brick, its thick neck blending into a head shaped like a massive flat wedge. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His tail looped and snaked like a lasso at a rodeo. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I thought ’bout how my conscience and Ma’s cookie jar snake were pretty much alike. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

There was no telling what other invisible creatures I was out here socializing with—snakes, frogs, fish, a whole river world of biting bugs, and I could have cared less. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam backed away, but carefully, as one backs away from a snake. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

From behind a glass pane, I see a brilliant green snake coiled around a tree branch. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Throngs of people were jockeying for position in ticket lines that snaked up and down the block. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And next time, remember, snakes work for tips. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He moved closer and saw the snakes emblazoned on their chests: Slytherins. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But in the eighth year, back from exile in Attika, Orestes killed the snake who killed his father. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he heard something else—the sound of a snake hissing. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And Jesus is going, 'Well, calm down with the snake business. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Like a small, striped snake, like a salamander, or a squirrel maybe, or a raccoon, something quick, little, harmless, and desperate, she slid, crept, wiggled underneath the sides of the summer house. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

As they travelled further into the lair, more snake people gathered to hear her. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes she is lucid, other times she talks of Rochelles and needles and snakes.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike Stargirl, I was aware of the constant anger of our schoolmates, seething like snakes under a porch. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Remember that last ‘very, very nice couple’ with the snakes?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

From somewhere below in the darkness came the sound of hissing—thousands and thousands of snakes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

White mold snakes from one leaf to the next. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s got a couple of crocodiles, a snake, one a them big lizard things.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“I think I know what the sixth Horcrux is. I wonder what you will say when I confess that I have been curious for a while about the behavior of the snake, Nagini?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Ice cream and poison exploded everywhere, all the little snakes in Kampe’s hair dotted with tutti-frutti. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Zola opens the door and, suspicious, peers around the Signora to see if she has brought snakes or slugs with hen Signora Divino says, “I make ravioli. Andiamo, andiamo! Let’s go!” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z