| 单词 | snaky |
| 例句 | His snaky fingers that sink inside my tongue and squeeze my windpipe so nothing'll work. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It looked like a greyhound, long and snaky and sleek brown, but its neck V’d into two heads, both of them snapping and snarling and generally not very glad to see us. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The Chimera might still be up there with its snaky, fat mother, waiting to finish me off. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Sammy struggled to free his head and arms from the snaky leaves. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems hard to believe he didn’t have a retreat somewhere, some bunker stocked with provisions where he could live out the rest of his snaky little life. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I even learned that when the photograph showed not one but several rats, a fourth shape would appear under it—a snaky line—and the sound with that one was “ess—ess—ess.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Often, if the day was warm and sun-kindled, they stopped along the way and sat by the river, a snaky, slow-moving, brown piece of the Arkansas. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Locomotion” got all the girls doing this choo-choo dance in a snaky line. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Into the middle of the hill, to see the oldest grave. Only there isn’t anybody in there. Just a snaky thing called a Sleer who scares people.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The road and the river twist thru ’em on snaky paths off to my right and sometimes it’s all I can do to keep them in sight. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “She lives in a cave, up on those cliffs. If we get too close, her snaky heads will come down and start plucking sailors off the ship.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He could feel its hot snaky fingers wriggling through his chest as he swallowed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z 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 He could still feel the gorgons’ claws pressing into his arms and smell their snaky breath—like dead mice and poison. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Danny was gazing at a couple of stunt kites with snaky ribbony tails. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z His new companions cluttered the living room and halls wearing zoot suits and wide-brimmed hats and dangling long snaky chains hooked at their belts. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Death-dealing War was there and mad Discord with snaky, bloodstained hair, and many another curse to mortals. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The only trouble was, this heifer Spot, as we called her, had been snaky wild from the day she was born. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Aidan’s snaky encounter with Mr. Bradshaw may be underhanded, but his logic is not always easy to refute, and his methods seem to intrigue the third character in the room, a young staffer named Charlotte. ‘NSFW’ looks at London’s mag trade — nude photos included 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z As finessed by Barry, it is the essence of imperialist, Cold War-era swagger, the opening, snaky guitar line contrasting perfectly with the more traditional orchestral flourishes a few bars later. 'Bond' theme writer John Barry dead at 77 2011-01-31T19:16:00Z Overlooking them all is the sultry, snaky figure of Miss Atomic, played by self-styled "avant-torch" singer Heather Christian, whose husky songs narrate the tale. The Team: a theatre company who specialise in bursting American bubbles 2013-06-04T18:30:02Z In the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Under the Bridge,” Santana surrounds its own singer, Andy Vargas, with Latin percussion and Mr. Santana’s snaky, jabbing leads, then breaks into a bilingual rock mambo. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-09-19T22:48:00Z And as Cookie, the clan’s prodigal daughter, Alana Arenas delivers a sneaky, snaky portrait of a damaged woman that threatens to blow the roof off the place all by itself. Review: In ‘Head of Passes,’ Phylicia Rashad Is a Matriarch With Worries 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z It takes several clear themes — recurring subject matter; a unified color palette, and a visual vocabulary of vertiginously tilted planes and angles and snaky organic curves — and works a sequence of variations on them. Oh, the humanity: Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series,’ reunited 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z One day I floated lazily above a large Gorgonian coral with long, flexible strands shaped like snaky ferns. Bonaire: Where Coral and Cactus Thrive, and the Sea Soothes the Soul 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z It was a snaky, ropy river of goo. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Bless you, sneezer, for you have sinned 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z And hanging on the walls were versions of these same maps stitched onto fabric, works that looked like a combination of an embroidered folk tablecloth and a snaky Brice Marden painting. Tatiana Trouvé Unwinds History in Public Art Project 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z The magnetic Schneider is charming, insouciant and snaky as Christian, and the actor plays the role with noticeable aplomb. With his role as the baddie in “The Daughter,” Paul Schneider completes a hat trick of films: “In my teen years I was surrounded by older, crazy rednecks that I was desperate to impress” 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Assuming the throne in ankle-length cream chiffon with gold trim, our heroine attracts the attention of Hironao Takahashi's austere Caesar, melting his heart and loins with her bedroom eyes and sultry, snaky arabesque. Cleopatra; Henri Oguike Dance Company ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:20Z It’s a record that features a snaky blues with quotes from Winston Churchill. How the Kinks turned a British history lesson into a rock masterpiece that still resonates 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z To flip through the pages of a 13th century manuscript, one might believe the medieval era was beleaguered by more snaky dragons and man-murdering bunnies than temperamental tween girls. ‘Catherine Called Birdy’ Review: Ye Olde Lady Bird 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Those cheeks, smooth as a hairless Chihuahua, will receive considerable attention, as will the rippling muscles, thrusting pelvises and the dancing, by turns snaky and acrobatic, that are on generous display in “Magic Mike.” Movie Review: ‘Magic Mike,’ by Steven Soderbergh, With Channing Tatum 2012-06-28T21:57:03Z Then he played the song’s snaky guitar riff and the drums continued their relentless roll. Atoms for Peace at UIC Pavilion 2013-10-03T06:15:00Z Later in the program, all the rejected contestants return for a “mansplaining” session in which they tell the women which of the men are the most irredeemably snaky. Can Cads Be Redeemed? A Raunchy Dating Show Investigates. 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z With the Peas' Fergie doing her best Axl Rose impression, right down to a snaky hip dance, the guitarist with the curls, shades and stove pipe hat played his signature "Sweet Child O' Mine" riff. Black Eyed Peas lead halftime cheers at Super Bowl 2011-02-07T15:39:39Z While the little angel perched on your right shoulder chirps, “The perfect present,” that impish red devil on your left will snakily hiss, “Keep it yourself. You know you want to.” Review | Looking for a seasonal tale of mystery, murder and ghosts? Here are 9 books just for you. 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z The voices and instruments all trace the same snaky line, lubricated with keening glissandos. A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z She showed slide after slide of snaky patterns — the dimensional fruit of some deep mathematical prowess. A Knitting Weekend Escape at Mohonk Mountain House 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The snaky plot takes us from their online courtship to Edie moving in with him and his wife, Rebecca. In ‘Luster,’ a Young Woman Moves in With Her Lover — and His Family 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z She moves from snakily grooving songs of uplift to romantic entreaties to reggae-tinged protest anthems. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Each room is like a stage set in which shimmering cones, spears, coils, discs and snaky Medusa-heads of multicolored glass explode like frozen fireworks. 36 Hours in Seattle 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z In addition to the dozens of stark, snaky, paper maquettes, the show also includes paper lamps made especially for this presentation. Visit Cahiers d’Art in Paris to See Monika Sosnowska’s Paper Models 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z In a still darker incarnation she is Medusa, the object of desire transformed into monster whose snaky visage turns men into stone. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z "So when everyone's talking about snaky hips and stuff, you know what, bring it on. Any opportunity, I'm throwing it." Strictly Come Dancing 2023: Snake hips, meditation and fabulous outfits 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Meet the anhinga, a large water bird with a snaky neck that has joined other high-profile vagrant birds in recent years by making a rare appearance outside of its typical migration range. The ‘Devil Bird’ Lands in New York, With More Likely to Come 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z We’ll spell out the first few routes; after that, if you can’t figure out some snaky path of adjacent states, see this week’s Style Conversational — or just look at a U.S. map. Style Invitational Week 1511: The inside word—our ‘air quote’ contest 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Usually, I tracked my location counting bends in the snaky river, my time watching the clouds shift, and my fortune spotting golden eagles. How I found myself befriending a wild fox 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z After all, Texas is one of the snakiest states in the nation, with more than 80 species, 11 of them venomous. How Facebook Is Saving Snakes 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z Smooth lawns and snaky ones and weedy ones and some resistant to herbicides. Column: Has a UC Riverside researcher created the Holy Grail of drought-tolerant lawns? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z They had fewer synapses, the junctions where brain cells send and receive signals, and dendrites, the snaky tendrils that allow neurons to connect into the neural communications system. How exercise may help keep our memory sharp 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z And you can imagine what they really are: these long, flexible, snaky things. Whale hugs, ‘active sea serpents,’ and the wild world of whale sex 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z “Yes, it’s a great story – more people dying under this administration in 100 days than died in 20 years of the Vietnam war,” Colbert said in his snakiest Kushner impersonation. Seth Meyers on Trump: 'What do they have to do to keep this guy's attention?' 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Speaking at the Missouri Press Association and Associated Press Day at the Capitol last week, GOP Sen. Dan Hegeman, of Cosby, said Clean Missouri could result in what he described as “snaky, windy” districts. Missouri Senate pitches yet another redistricting plan 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z They drove a hundred and thirty miles on the single-track roads that wind east from their home in Foyers, near the snaky banks of Loch Ness, to Peterhead. A World Without Pain 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z “This looks snaky right here. This is where I would be.” To save Everglades, guardians fight time – and climate 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z A 69, and it would have been one stroke better had her snaky 30-foot birdie effort on 18 taken one more turn. Women's British Open 2019: second round – live! 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The signature, snaky, viney form of its trunks is a result of its tenacious search for light underneath those towering conifers. Every yard needs a small tree somewhere; here are some of the best for the Northwest 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Even after she confronts him publicly once about his snaky behaviour, a few days later and they’re “cosier” in bed than ever before – and then he’s on the prowl yet again. Why is Love Island so popular? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Nichi Hodgson 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Originality isn’t filmmaker Drew Pearce’s strong suit, but his sci-fi thriller has enough snaky twists and turns and moody energy to make it a fun ride. ‘Hotel Artemis’: Jodie Foster leads fun but unoriginal futuristic crime thriller 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z A snaky interwar republic gave them space and opportunity to enact this violence in particular ways. What do incels, fascists and terrorists have in common? Violent misogyny | Jason Wilson 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Images captured by transmission electron microscopy show blobs of collagen bundles and long, snaky cells. Is This Tissue a New Organ? Maybe. A Conduit for Cancer? It Seems Likely. 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z That debut contained songs that stood the test of time, the snaky “Breakdown” and “American Girl,” which so echoed the Byrds that it confused that band’s leader. Tom Petty a rock classicist from the beginning 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z With its snaky bassline and playful, Muppety backing vocals, it sounds very much like Wings playing Stuck in the Middle With You. Is Harry Styles' album worth the wait? - BBC News 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Originality isn’t his strong suit, but “Artemis” has enough snaky twists and turns and moody energy to make it a fun ride. ‘Hotel Artemis’: Jodie Foster leads fun but unoriginal futuristic crime thriller 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The song was inspired by encounters with "snaky people" in the music industry, she explains. Vanessa White on life after The Saturdays - BBC News 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z The plants in question were huge hoyas with rubbery leaves and long, snaky vines. Orchid Fever 1995-01-15T05:00:00Z Even in repose, its snaky veins swell to the surface, masked only by a tangle of tattoos. Arm Wrestling’s Popularity Goes Over the Top 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z But then a thought infiltrated into my brain from its snaky neighbor to the south. How I quit Diet Coke, my favorite vice | Mary Valle 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Each snaky, filigree-like ink line seems as if it’s a riff on postcolonialism, adding up to a poignant collision of high art and pop culture. 'She's a wild woman, she's a shaman': Nicki Minaj becomes a feminist art muse 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z As one third of the legendary band The Police, Andy Summers sold over 75 million albums with his distinctive, snaky guitar riffs. Andy Summers interview on solo efforts without The Police 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z When the flat bits of the city were all taken, they colonised the hillsides, pushing higher and higher with homemade rickety properties along snaky lanes. A Tale of Several Cities - BBC News 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z When his enemies were about to overcome him, he had only to display it, holding it by its snaky locks and it became an invincible weapon that turned his enemies to stone. Is Google Doing Anything New? 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z On the most mesmerizing track, “Love Is to Die,” keys and chords shift like a psychedelic light show, bleeding into each other over a bed of snaky grooves. What Warpaint, L.A.'s Coolest All-Female Band, Packs on Tour 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z It otherwise is a rather specious drama that stonily observes several variously deluded characters and the snaky individual who works their nerves. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Happy,’ at the New Jersey Repertory Company 2013-06-22T01:29:45Z But this also provides an opportunity to address some snaky stigmas. City Room: There's No Need to Fear That Garter Snake 2012-06-05T15:15:31Z When the snaky spring is compressed and secured inside the unopened can, it has potential energy. Snappy Science: Stretched Rubber Bands Are Loaded with Potential Energy! 2012-04-05T14:15:00.217Z Snakes are often considered a drawback in Australia, but then it must be remembered that a man may live ten years in a snaky part of the country and never see one of these reptiles. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z The philology and etymology of the name Jacob has suggestions of the serpent; and from his history he must have been a snaky fellow from the first to the last. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z He would have passed this unheeded had he not noted a snaky flitting of Chacherre's eyes to it. The Mardi Gras Mystery 2012-03-24T02:00:18.017Z He was an erect, black outline to her; he plied his paddle with no unskilful gesture, the water broke to snaky silver and glittered far behind his strokes. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z She was in a covered well-head, whence the water, after filling a sunken caldron, about which the moss hung in dark, snaky wreaths, escaped under the wooden door. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Milton's Ode on Nativity, 25, "Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine." The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z “The witness who speaks falsely shall be fast bound under water in the snaky cords of Varuna, and be wholly deprived of power to escape torment during a hundred transmigrations.” The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z It has long, snaky tentacles that sweep the ground for many yards in every direction, for all the world like the long suckers of the devil-fish. The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret 2012-03-07T03:00:15.897Z They might straighten out the one and shoot back the other, but that new mysterious delivery, that snaky, tantalizing, impish fadeaway, had robbed them of confidence. Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball 2012-03-02T03:00:09.747Z When Thomas Paine was dying, he was infested by fanatics—by the snaky spies of bigotry. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z As her talons clawed at the wickerwork, feeling for a hold, the head of the mink, on its long, snaky neck, darted forth, reached up, and struck its fine white fangs into her thigh. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z In his stead, regarding you with a cold, basilisk, snaky stare that pierced you through and through, there was revealed—Shaughnessy. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z All craft that foxy one was—one of the snaky ones, one of the tough boys, one of the coves! The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z St. Paul was his great ancestor, and ever since that accident upon the island of Malta, all the family have possessed miraculous powers over the snaky tribe. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z With which he waves his snaky wand: Let Bacchus then the breast supply, And Leda's son the sinewy thigh. The Odes of Anacreon 2011-12-08T03:00:29.763Z In the next instant the snaky neck of the heron uncoiled itself and the javelin bill darted up at him like lightning. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z His cold, snaky gaze met the other's fairly. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z Or the body can shoot out long rods or snaky projections, which lift tables, and exert force which has been recorded upon pressure instruments and weighed by scales. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z I want it with an arm long enough and a sword sharp enough to strike down tyranny wherever it may raise its snaky head. Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs 2011-11-24T03:00:41.267Z He and his sons had special merits In breeding and in handling ferrets Full many a snaky hob and jill Had bit the thumbs of Baldy Hill. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z Several of the men, dragging the snaky lines of hose, dropped down into the hold. Fenn Masterson's Discovery or, The Darewell Chums on a Cruise 2011-11-07T02:00:19.467Z Why, this genius of the slums had his pallid hand at the throat of the State, and his snaky eyes were even now fixed on victims in higher places, even beyond its too-confined borders. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z But the column of sand disintegrated before a hovel, and became a snaky woman-shape that disappeared into the dark door of the house. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Superstition is a snaky- haired demoness, with poison-cup in one hand and dagger in the other, surrounded by instruments of torture, and treading on a youth. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z I've since then been through college in that line, and such low, snaky agents of hell as you are were my professors. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z “You look more like the Medusa of the snaky locks——” “Oh, oh!” wept Belle, too angry to articulate. The Motor Maids' School Days 2011-09-17T02:00:33.303Z “It wouldn’t come to weak men,” he said, baring an arm that showed great snaky muscles 90 rippling beneath the clear skin. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z As hideous women with terrible countenances; they had twining serpents instead of hair, and carried snaky whips and lighted torches in their hands. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z Little, frail, jerky steps the bullocks take, and again they put their horns back and lift their muzzles snakily to heaven, as the man pulls the line. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z That mixture of wide and narrow leaves, slippery stalks, snaky stems winding around the legs and body to the waist hindered his advance greatly, but at least concealed him from the patrol. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z It bore in black letters the name, “The Culpeper Minute Men of Virginia,” the snaky slogan, “Don’t Tread On Me,” and the famous words of its commander, Patrick Henry, “Liberty or Death!” Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z Suddenly down went his snaky neck, and, when it rose, another fish was writhing in his bill. Minnie; or, The Little Woman A Fairy Story 2011-07-18T02:00:19.717Z They brandished whips, wreathed with serpents, in their fleshless hands, and their aspect was rendered still more terrible by the frightful masks which appeared beneath their snaky tresses. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z At length, “waving her right hand before her husband’s face with a significant and snaky motion,” she reiterated her demand with a terrible calmness: John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z Now and again a long thin line of glimmering car-windows would wind snakily round the lofty curve of the Elevated structure at One-hundred-and-tenth Street. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z I don’t see any story about that snaky old thing. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z Already the Western girl was quite enamored of the smiling, snaky Rose Mantel. Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam 2011-06-14T02:00:23.757Z And then, too, there is something snaky about him. Bijou 2011-05-25T02:00:22.743Z The rope, which great spiders had converted into a swing, now felt soft and snaky beneath his touch. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z He looked back at the snaky leer in those half-opened green eyes, and a rage went boiling into his brain. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z “Do you see that rattlesnake?” continued Miss Nathalie, as she brought her flag to a standstill and pointed to the snaky emblem. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z Ruth crowded behind her companions and hid herself from the sharp and “snaky” eyes of the woman in black. Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam 2011-06-14T02:00:23.757Z A flashing pair of beadlike eyes, almost snaky, were fastened on Carl. The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land 2011-04-11T02:00:11.027Z "Let my friends all depart, or turn away their eyes," he said, and he held aloft the hideous snaky head of the Gorgon. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z It's a big old car, but it doesn't feel big on a snaky A road; it's steady, balanced, grippy and relishes the bends. On the road: Infiniti M37 S 2011-03-26T00:01:01Z He did not wink an eyelid, although he kept his snaky optics fixed on the captain. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z In Aeschylus, the Erinyes are represented as awful, Gorgon-like women, wearing long black robes, with snaky locks, bloodshot eyes and claw-like nails. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z On the left arm was a shield, and in its centre appeared a lifelike representation of the head of Medusa with the snaky locks. A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales For girls and boys 2011-02-25T03:01:12.793Z The others scrambled up the cliff and cut at the snaky roots, while Penfold occupied himself below in treading the snow into a firm bed. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z The snaky coils of the polished silk throw off the light like fragments of mirrors. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z That priest with the cadaverous mask keeps his snaky looks ever fastened on me. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Here was the retreat of the Gorgon, with snaky tresses, turning all she looked upon into stone; and here also the garden of the Hesperides, with its apples of gold. White Slavery in the Barbary States 2011-02-10T03:00:50.200Z The Water-Adder laughed in her snaky way, and showed her sharp teeth. Among the Pond People 2011-01-21T03:00:13.507Z She saw before her a tall man, sallow and dark, his hair falling in snaky lines to his shoulders, the golden fleur-de-lys worked upon his blue surcoat making his face the more sickly by comparison. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z I just adore the thin, mysterious, snaky kind, don't you? Concerning Belinda 2011-01-21T03:00:12.087Z Like the English infantry associated with them, the Irish advanced in the open snaky lines in which such attacks are always delivered. The Irish on the Somme Being a Second Series of 'The Irish at the Front' 2011-01-12T03:00:32.843Z The golden serpent of commerce has twined its snaky folds about it all, and fascinated into sleep the child. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z When the time came the middle of the month for the first planting, my seeds had developed snaky white roots and stalks. The Idyl of Twin Fires All at once a long, shiny, snaky looking animal broke water in the wake of the beaver and a short distance behind the latter, evidently in pursuit. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. The Thracian monarch from the table flings While with his cries the vaulted parlour rings; His imprecations echo down to hell, And rouse the snaky furies from their Stygian cell. Heathen Mythology Always to me it takes on the semblance of Medusa's head in my school mythology, its snaky, hissing locks striking, stabbing, stinging, scarring indelibly. The Trail of Conflict Your friend of the snaky curls is in sole possession of the Grange. Deep Moat Grange Up from below surged a dark, snaky coil, streaming with pale flakes of fire; it looped him horribly; a second length and a third flung over him; a fourth overhung, feeling in air. The Unknown Sea She was looking very pretty, dark, slim and snaky in her close-fitting lemon coloured frock. A Bed of Roses In me the son of thundering Jove behold, Got in a kindly shower of fruitful gold, Medusa's snaky head is now my prey, And through the clouds I boldly wing my way. Heathen Mythology The big vine swung its loose, snaky folds over the ruin. Shadows of Flames A Novel The moon was creeping upward towards the zenith, and the light had now illuminated the dark face and wet, snaky curls of that which had been Mad Jeremy. Deep Moat Grange A genus of marine radiated animals, without shells; so called, because their organs of motion spread out like the snaky hair of the fabulous Medusa. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The leader, a gigantic brave, was gesticulating freely with his long snaky arms. The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure The moment of representation is when the hero, flushed with conquest, displays the head of the “snaky Gorgon,” whilst the right hand grasps a sword of singular device. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" "Those sleek, snaky trails on the water mean rain, they tell me," answered Chesney. Shadows of Flames A Novel It is not precisely a palace, so to speak," said Jeremy, shaking his long snaky curls, and smiling his unctuous thin-lipped smile; "but in comparison wi' some—mercy me, but ye should be content. Deep Moat Grange With a last look of hate glowing in his snaky eyes, he put forth his skull, as though to meet the blow. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising Old Masuka sat down and took snuff, blinking the while at me with his black and snaky eyes. The King's Assegai A Matabili Story Nearly all had a firearm of some sort, in addition to a goodly sheaf of dark, snaky assegais. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance He was not a reassuring figure, with his lean, muscle-knotted frame, and snaky locks. Red Nails The snaky tongues of fire coming on swift, almost, as the wind itself, were but two hundred yards away when the rescuers and rescued embarked 144 upon the raft. The Auto Boys' Mystery That yearling I branded—he was from the river bosques, for he had his tail full of sand burs, and the bunch he was with was sure snaky. Stepsons of Light I noticed one or two hairy, apelike dominants from Jupiter's third moon, and a few of the snaky, scaly, six-limbed creatures from the second. The Telenizer I saw before me in the moonlight what was not at all the popular conception of the witch doctor—a little shrivelled being with furtive, cunning looks, and snaky eyes. A Frontier Mystery Save for a stern and ominous look in his cold, snaky eye, he might not have heard. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion His small, snaky, cruel head was bent downwards, while his fierce little eyes peered among the tumbled ice blocks for possible dead fish. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life Jann was twenty-four, a tall ash-blonde woman with snaky amber eyes and pointed ears who lorded it over the household. The Buttoned Sky The face of the Medusa was pushed aside, and the oval opening beneath, the snaky hair was filled with a living countenance! A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 The nearer he came, the more terrible did the snaky visage and metallic body of the-33- monster grow. A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys Or else he sits by the hour still as a statue on the mossy log of a swamp where a long wriggling—wriggling trail marks the snaky motion of some creature below the amber depths. The Story of the Trapper He looked the very serpent of Colonna’s dream, and the malignant scowl of his small and snaky eyes gave singular force to the resemblance. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 These snaky tresses, which already “Monk” Lewis wound around the devil’s head, are borrowed, according to Sir Walter Scott, from the shield of Minerva. Devil Stories An Anthology A fellow with a name like that and with snaky eyes like his was capable of anything. The Girl in the Mirror Go, tell the queen thy own detested story: Full in her sight disclose the snaky labyrinths, And lurking snares, you plant in virtue's path, To catch integrity's unguarded step. The Earl of Essex And as the finishing touch was put on the washer with a thin, snaky file, he asked suddenly if I had any books. Aliens And she had eyes, Bob, little and wide apart, and black as sloes, with a snaky look. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement Now and then the snaky lightning darted across the heavens and coiled itself away in a cloud. Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It His eyes were large and black, but restless and snaky; I noticed that he never looked straight into my face when speaking to me. The Somnambulist and the Detective The Murderer and the Fortune Teller It looked decidedly snaky, Chicken Little reflected dubiously. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John His blood was gushing fast but the narrow, snaky eyes sought him out before they were filmed by death. Shadow Mountain "They could open the ports and ram those snaky heads inside to feed." Astounding Stories, May, 1931 A snaky rope went coiling down into the lower ship’s cockpit. The Fifth-Dimension Tube Again Lucille waved her snaky wand, and, as before, the room was filled with the fumes of burning incense. The Somnambulist and the Detective The Murderer and the Fortune Teller They were more subtle than the snaky spies of Germany, and more venomous. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Once the toe of one of his snowshoes caught in the snaky root of a big spruce and he fell ponderously, without a word, and picked himself up again. The Peace of Roaring River A tough vine, unnoticed on the ground, looped snakily around one ankle and threw him hard. The Pathless Trail Elsewhere the undulating snaky coils may be somewhat distressing, here they float in the air and help the suggestion of movement. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work It was apparent at a glance that the snaky neck, perched atop the lofty shoulder structure, would raise the head with its gaping jaws to his level on the wall! The Red Hell of Jupiter Viridus had his chin on the rail of the gallery; he gazed down below with his snaky eyes. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court And there were long and snaky necks terminating in infinitesimal heads, and vast palpitating bodies following those impossible small brain-cases, and long tapering tails that thrashed mightily as the ghastly things fled bellowing…. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 He gave one more snaky twist, and then there was a terrible crash of thunder and the dragon went sailing through the air. The Chinese Fairy Book A little farther down the ridge Jud was idly swinging his great driving whip in long, snaky coils, flicking now a dry branch, and now a red autumn leaf from the clay road. Dwellers in the Hills “Suddenly rearing his sleek, snaky body half out of the water.” The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories The brown, snaky lamp cord was the end of this experiment. Poppa Needs Shorts They could not know; but as they stared at the crest of the hill, two long, snaky, waving things appeared above the crest, undulating, waving to and fro, as though questing for something. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 Wicked creatures snarled crepitantly, and their crackling noises were echoed by lizard and dragon, ululating snouted birds and hissing leagues of snaky lengths. Melomaniacs The river, near where I had leaped in, varied in depth from my middle to my neck, and the snaky stalks of tule clung to me, retarding my retreat like faithful allies of the enemy. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy A heavy, snaky cable led from this panel to the maze of apparatus further on. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 Long snaky stripes of color came out over the surface of the water, flecked here with the harbor lights of a merchant vessel, there with the distinguishing marks of a man-o'-war. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore One magnific pall Mantled in massive fold and fall His head, and coiled in snaky swathes About His feet: night's black, that bathes All else, broke, grizzled with despair, Against the soul of blackness there. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning Such words as these Saturnian Juno spake, And on the wing the Evil rose, with snaky sweeping whirr, Seeking Cocytus' house, and left the light world's steep of air. The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse A sort of poor-white Neptune, this tall, lean, lantern-jawed old fellow, with great round, iron-rimmed spectacles over his fishy eyes, his hair and beard in long, snaky locks, and clothing in dirty tatters. Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo Yes; that was the same face, the same pent-house of ragged eyebrow over the cold and snaky eye beneath, the same wolfish mouth and permanent hungry smile. The First Violin A Novel Every new sight of a snaky slim cowpuncher on a racy horse intensified this impression in Pan's mind, stamped the future more vividly on his heart. Valley of Wild Horses He fought mechanically, and with incredible efficiency, striking with a snaky speed and accuracy that would have amazed any one capable of noting it. Louisiana Lou A Western Story Then he remembered his old thoughts about "snaky deeds." Jennie Gerhardt A Novel From behind the cabin arose a sonorous cry of hong-ka, honk-a-honk, and the snaky 24 black head of a big Canada goose appeared inquiringly around the corner. The Backwoodsmen He gave vent to a shrill, bleating bellow––an absurdly inadequate utterance to issue from this mountainous frame––writhed his neck in snaky folds, and lashed out convulsively with the stupendous coils of his tail. In the Morning of Time It was a snaky place and that is what I was afraid of. Round the Wonderful World If you step on one of those long, snaky branches, it’ll turn around and hit you, no matter where you are, and whenever it hits those little thorns stick in and stay.” The Young Alaskans on the Trail He would never do a snaky thing—and Robert knew, in his own soul, that to succeed greatly one must. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel A few steps from the door James Edward, the wild gander, came forward with dignity, slightly bowing his long, graceful black neck and narrow snaky head as he moved. The Backwoodsmen Mormon's jovial face was tense, his voice stern and cold, he stood crouched forward a little from the hips, legs apart, his gun a thing of menace that seemed to be alive, snaky. Rimrock Trail A slender snaky tentacle came lashing down and struck his shoulder with a force that sent him sprawling forward upon his face. Devil Crystals of Arret Now one in heaven is glorious plac'd; The other, laden with the well-known spoil Of the fierce snaky monster, cleaves the air, On sounding pinions. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II It emitted long, snaky spirals of some elastic substance, which clogged his teeth and tickled his throat and wound themselves round his tongue and nearly choked him. Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman As Baldy approached, holding out a hand of placation, and “chucking” persuasively as if he thought James Edward was a hen, the latter reared his snaky black head and stared in haughty surprise. The Backwoodsmen A little snaky flame wriggled its way along a piece of sagging cordage, licked at the edges of a torn sail, and flared outward in a burst of red fire. The Black Buccaneer There were mud-turtles that paddled their queer little rafts right up to yours, and poked their dreadful snaky heads right up at you out of the water. 'Lizbeth of the Dale His information ended;—“now,”—he cry'd,— “Relate, O Perseus! boldest of mankind,— “By what fierce courage, and what skilful arts,” “The snaky locks in thy possession came.” The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II Away, twenty miles to the south, in the sky could be seen the snaky outline of a zeppelin. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders The box-trees, though their thick, snaky stems look as if they might be any age, are not all of them old. Highways and Byways in Surrey Caspar’s curls hung over his shoulders, and Ossaroo’s snaky black tresses dangled down his back like the tail of a horse. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Ah, the tragic errand, the snaky purpose, coiled behind those graceful, ambiguous forms of speech! The Dop Doctor There had been much calumniating cackle in the little town; nay, more: cackle is of geese; there had been venom of the snakiest kind. The Rough Road And the man took this snaky, wavy thing, and he wrapped it around the pipe, and he drove it into the joint until it looked like a part of the pipe. The Doers Hamilton fed the first batter a snaky curve, which he lashed at savagely but vainly. Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour Grattan could hardly have brought himself to believe that the real repeal of the Union would actually be signed in London in the strange script as remote as the snaky ornament of the Celtic crosses. What I Saw in America "Injin is Injin, and the dirt I made in scratching out of there will be seen by a dozen of their snaky eyes." The Riflemen of the Miami Her beautiful face wore an expression like that of the stony countenance with the snaky locks. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Medusa's mask, livid amidst its grim and snaky locks, could hardly have produced a more terrible effect upon the poor old woman. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 They were all dusky, hungry-looking fellows, with snaky black hair and shrinking black eyes. Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone The Plot Against Uncle Sam Besides, I don’t like that snaky way she has of watching everyone.” Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe She gave me to understand, in that snaky, frozen way of hers, that I was a fool for thinking so. No Clue A Mystery Story The entrance to the cave was pretty dark and "snaky"; maybe he would compromise and not go in. Frank of Freedom Hill We will sow secret herbs, and plant old roses, And fumble through dark, snaky palaces, Stable our ponies in the Taj Mahal, And sleep out-doors ourselves. American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany Orme found himself wondering what snaky plots were winding through that dark mind. The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure He’s an iceberg, an’ he’s got the snakiest gun-hand of any man in the country. 'Drag' Harlan When they beheld Dante they howled for the Gorgon, Medusa, with the snaky locks to come quickly and turn him into stone—a fate that must befall all men that gazed upon her face. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. She remembered the tales they told of the big log overhead and she was afraid of those snaky things on the window sills. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Round this awful countenance hung snaky locks of ragged grey hair, and she was deadly pale, with a bleared and dimmed blue eye. Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race He was tall and thin as the blade of a rapier, with a cynical expression of countenance, and long snaky tresses of hair hanging down over his shoulders, like thongs of smoked leather. The Tiger Hunter Yesterday a little, sly, snaky creature asked me if I knew "the Hero of Port Hudson." A Confederate Girl's Diary “I have brought you the Gorgon's head, snaky locks and all!” Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls It seems horrid now, and there he sits with that long, snaky pipe and his legs twisted in a knot, smoking away as comfortably as the old Guy Fox in the tablecloth that I shaved. In the Mahdi's Grasp And here’s four things that I don’t suppose are good to eat—they got kind of snaky heads, and red-colored, too. The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive Nothing can be more terrible than the long, snaky blade of a Malay kriss. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia The mother of Hina stood in the prow of one of the first canoes, her white hair blowing about her head in snaky folds, her black eyes glittering. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate “Show us the head of Medusa with the snaky locks!” Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls Indigenous to all the country round, His snaky length lies prone along the ground. A Phenomenal Fauna The chiefs gathered for council on the parade, and the warriors crowded around, a living wall of dusky forms, befeathered heads, savage faces, lank snaky locks, and deep-set eyes that glittered with a devilish light. A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America The commander walked over, slammed the heel of his heavy boot hard down on the head of the snaky thing, crushing it. Despoilers of the Golden Empire The transformers and snaky cables leading to relays outside—all were clear as print to Hoddan. The Pirates of Ersatz The region was a snaky one, and every little while we would find a snake in the house, and have a lively time driving him out or killing him. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent "He's the long, snaky knife that hangs in the parlor," said Hortense. The Cat in Grandfather's House Pedro, the mate, was a snaky, dusky fellow, with huge rings of gold in his ears and a smile that showed altogether too many teeth to be pleasant—a regular alligator smile. Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers The creese is an ancient Malay knife, with a waved, snaky blade—a weapon with which the Malay pirates of the past used to do fearful execution. Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros “Oh, don’t touch it with that,” cried Jack quickly; “it’s all snaky, and we shall want to eat the fish.” Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy I was for a moment awe-struck as I gazed at the shrivelled and dwarfish bodies, the long, ape-like arms, and huge disproportioned heads, from which fell their hair in snaky tangles, black and matted. The Scalp Hunters It stretched full thirty leagues in length and in breadth, and had wild beasts in it and snaky things. Aucassin and Nicolette translated from the Old French He had the thick lips and retreating forehead of the negro, but the Indian showed itself in his hair, which scarcely waved, but hung in long snaky tresses about his neck and shoulders. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico One thing was still lacking—an important element in the metamorphosis of disguise: I wanted the long snaky black tresses that adorned the head of the Comanche. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse I feel sure I’ve seen him somewhere before; I remember that repellent, snaky look in his eyes, which gives one the shivers up and down one’s spine.” A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas The brown boy, who seemed like a goblin, umber-colored fungus, growing by a snaky black wild vine, sat by her and stared at me. The Gypsies She durst not go deep into it, for the wild beasts and the snaky things; and she crept into a thick bush, and sleep fell on her. Aucassin and Nicolette translated from the Old French I never think what the devil looks like without seein' that red demon with his snaky black eyes, grinnin' at me! The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln The snaky eyes of the half-breed were filled with panic, but as The Kid did not shoot or seem to be about to do so, they began to glitter with mockery. Kid Wolf of Texas This I read, as usual, thoroughly and often, and wrote my name at the end, ending with a long snaky flourish. Memoirs "Now that suspicion has raised its snaky head, I'd like to know—why is Sarah, long after the dishes are done, still wearing that apron?" Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party The Susquehanna was six miles distant as the crow flies, but almost thrice six by the snaky curvatures of the channel down which they were making their way. Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters “Yes, but the place looks snaky, Mr Rob; and I daresay there’s lots o’ them big spiders about.” Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco His evil face was gloating, his snaky eyes glittering with the prospect of quick revenge. Kid Wolf of Texas "Why?" and the Secretary actually laughed, a smooth, noiseless laugh, but a laugh nevertheless, though so full of a snaky cunning that Prescott started as if he had been bitten. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond “It’s just as if little soft snaky fingers were feeling about your head.” The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap We call him Eely, because he’s such a lanky, thin, snaky chap. Burr Junior But with a stout heart he struggled on through poisonous morasses, and pushed his way through snaky creepers. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country He wore neither beard nor moustache; but his hair, black and snaky, hung down trailing over the velvet embroidery of his manga. The Rifle Rangers Out on your snaky speeches and beguiling ways! All's Well Alice's Victory The storekeeper nodded when at length Weston carefully clamped down a big copper cap on a length of snaky fuse and inserted it in another hole. The Gold Trail And then the lorries flung along By ones and twos, and then In snaky line some twenty strong, Full of shouting men. The Village Wife's Lament His powerful left arm, driving the double-razor-edged dirk in short, resistless arcs, managed to keep the snaky tendrils from coiling about his right arm, which was wielding the heavy, trenchant sword. Spacehounds of IPC I could see the red blood running over his face and dripping from his long, snaky locks. The Rifle Rangers My too lively imagination pictured the witch-like face, with its dark, snaky eyes, bending over me, and I found it impossible to maintain, with any appearance of reality, the composure I had assumed. The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I The water was getting a lead color, streaked with foam, and the hissing of the whitecaps had a curiously snaky sound, as they spit water into the boat. Short Stories of Various Types On either side of him were drooping mimosa trees, heavy with the snaky, orange-coloured blossom whose perfumes hung heavy upon the windless air. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo The undergrowth grew denser, so that he climbed with greater toil through the maze of thorned bush and snaky creepers that twined in enormous lengths across the forest floor. Terry A Tale of the Hill People She juggled the wheel and made a snaky path off to one side of the road. Highways in Hiding He raised his scaly body, thus letting his sharp claws be more visible, moved his snaky tail in a circle, and showed his gaping mouth. Legends of the Rhine I gazed upon it till the characters swelled out like black chords, and writhed in snaky convolutions. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author “It wouldn’t come to weak men,” he said, baring an arm that showed great snaky muscles rippling beneath the clear skin. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story To the watcher in space, they were mere moving, snaky lines of barely distinguishable dots that shivered and seemed to writhe in the refractions of the air. Invaders from the Infinite And, if it wasn't for something snaky and creepy-crawly looking in his eyes, I had rather have his help than that of most women's. The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49 Jealousy, like a serpent, stole into their household, and involved the mind of the husband in her snaky embrace. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The next was a tall snaky Female with black Beads all over her Person and she was smoking a Cigarette, half closing her Eyes as she blew Rings toward the Ceiling. Knocking the Neighbors As far as our lights would shine in the snow, we could see stubby trees with snaky branches growing out of the tops. Four-Day Planet A score or more of dangling, snaky plaits, hanging down over her black face and shoulders gave her a most repulsive appearance. The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532 The road coiled up and up snakily, between rows of leering cactus; and far below the densely wooded heights lay lovely plains through which a great river wandered. The Golden Silence Down the sweep of whitewashed stalls the upper doors were yawning wide, and from many of these openings, velvet black in the sunlight, sleek snaky heads protruded. Blister Jones "After this I am going to beware of holes that look snaky," was Roger's comment. Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret Her hair blew out to it in snaky streamers, sideways. Lore of Proserpine He never tired of looking at the big hairy elephants with their turned-up tusks and long snaky trunks. The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone The twisting of the track, 'without rhyme or reason,' reminded me of the snakiest paths in Central Africa. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Those who had seen the Yankee's crew at work in their snaky carvel-built boat said that no one else was in it. Great Sea Stories But the glad sun warmed the cockles of his heart, and in an hour or two he became limber, and this made him happy in his snaky fashion. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. A withered creature with snaky, tangled hair, toothless gums, eyes that burned like embers, and a haunched, shrivelled figure, stood gesticulating and crooning over a low monotone in the centre of the lodge. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade He feels from Juda's land The dreaded Infant's hand, The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyne: Nor all the gods beside Dare longer there abide, Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country She fastened her eyes on Eleanor, snakily, sinister, never shifting her glance. The Freebooters of the Wilderness Those who had seen the Yankee's crew at work in their snaky carvel-built boat said that no one else was in it. Great Sea Stories Then he opened his mouth very wide, with a huge snaky yawn, and face to face he began on Old Rattler. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. He feels, from Juda's land, The dreaded Infant's hand, The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn; Nor all the gods beside Longer dare abide, Nor Typhon huge ending in snaky twine. The Hundred Best English Poems I caught the wicked, snaky gleam of the Creole's eyes. Gordon Craig Soldier of Fortune "Of all the squirmy, snaky, gloomy, airless, sunless, moist, decaying masses of misery, I think this is the worst." In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa It's all green and ghastly, with snaky flames playin' about it! Bob Hampton of Placer Not a big beast, you will say; but in the wild he ruled big, being snaky and of a fighting turn, so to say. The Way of the Wild You cower down when first they come With snaky whispers at your ear; And when like swarming bees they hum You know the tinkling chill of fear. 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse Indeed, the very memory of her snaky eyes gave me new horror. Gordon Craig Soldier of Fortune The black, snaky orbs of the boys twinkled like stars through their overhanging hair. Oonomoo the Huron A black sea-creek, with snaky run Slipping through low green leagues of sedge, An ebbing tide, and a setting sun; A hut and a woman by the edge. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation The robutler extruded a long, snaky arm with a flame, and lit it. A Place so Foreign At the same moment a snaky tentacle rose out of the sea and caught her, while other tentacles quickly enveloped her. Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century Lord, I could despise that Texas rough, but the snaky eyes of the woman made me shiver, and look about apprehensively. Gordon Craig Soldier of Fortune It winds in and out of low hills, and as I saw it this evening, from an eminence, it looked more snaky than ever. Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front Here the old man will rub his nose, and shake his long snaky locks, and lick his bearded lips, and grin till the yellow tooth-stumps show. The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling The princess fixed her eye upon her, with a somewhat snaky light in it. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 But the trunk began to wobble with snaky undulations and the green blur grew bigger and bigger in sudden jerks, while I tried frantically and desperately to keep it small. Combed Out Before them a snaky space of water, blacker than the darkness about them, and capped with faintly phosphorescent crests of tossing waves, separated them—Ootah knew not how far—from the land. The Eternal Maiden He darted at it, and by a lucky plunge of his sword cut its snaky tip clean off. Children of the Wild The nephew's face darkened, and his eyes looked snaky, as though he would like to strike, but dared not. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia Cow-boys dashed from nowhere in particular and did amazing things with a bit of rope, sending it through the air with snaky undulations after flying cattle. Judith of the Plains Aided by the nature of my other snaky weapons, and by resolute effort and wrath, I shall slay Partha. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 There was a sneering emphasis in her words, and the snaky black eyes gleamed like daggers on the baronet. The Baronet's Bride Straightway he opened his long yellow bill, gave vent to a hiss like the steam from an escape pipe, stuck out his snaky neck close to the ground, lifted his broad gray-and-white wings, and charged. Children of the Wild "You know as well as I do," my companion answered, with a wink of his snaky eye. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia Not to look upon the blackness of Tartarus have I come hither, nor yet to bind in chains the snaky heads on Cerberus. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) It looks as if the witch's orchard might be there behind us, with all sorts of snaky, crawlin' things in it. The Little Colonel's Hero He thought of the “man with black, snaky eyes,” who “took penn’orths” all the way from the Elephant to Whitehall. The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate Mostly you don't; and, when you do, as likely as not it's only his snaky black head, with its sharp dagger of a bill, stuck up out of the water to keep track of you. Children of the Wild The servants knew him both by his face and garb; for his short cloak and his winged cap and shoes and his snaky staff had often been seen thereabouts in times gone by. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) It is common with you to join hands with the men you meet; but with the slave-dealer you avoid the ceremony,—instinctively shrinking from the snaky contact. Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 Perhaps some snaky waitress has told on us, or he had seen us, even from his table. Twelve Men “Has he got black, snaky eyes and high cheek-bones?” the conductor inquired thoughtfully. The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate The Puranic All-god Vishnu stands in as close a relation to his Vedic prototype as does Milton's Satan to the snaky slanderer of an age more primitive. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Dawn rose slowly; the sky became blotched with snaky tints of dull yellow and livid grey; the gale kept on, and the schooner was hove-to to meet a sea of terrifying speed and height. A Dream of the North Sea Angus, Junior, was off early, too, in his snakiest car. Somewhere in Red Gap Bob's riata whirled, shot out its snaky length, and his trained horse braced himself skillfully to the black's weight on the rope. When A Man's A Man The first one wasn't much dance; it was mostly slow, snaky motions with the arms and other things, and it was to portray a mother cobra mourning her first-born. Ma Pettengill As dawn broke, the Worm uncoiled its snaky twine from around the hill, and came to its rock in the river. More English Fairy Tales The little boy ran to the great animal and hugged its leg tightly, while the snaky trunk touched the child's face affectionately. The Jungle Girl Sixty miles and more away to the south-east the Garo Hills rose beyond the snaky line of the Brahmaputra River wandering through the plains of Assam. The Elephant God The low stone wall was topped by a snaky fence of split rails. Through stained glass The commotion on deck had given us some warning, but the sudden dash of the long, snaky torpedo boat from out the haze came as a decided shock. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" Clinging to the back of the shark, were four or five Remoras, or sucking-fish; snaky parasites, impossible to remove from whatever they adhere to, without destroying their lives. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I The unpleasant glitter in the eyes of Jakie grew more pronounced; grew even snaky, in the opinion of Happy Jack. The Happy Family A dance of infernals having to be exhibited, they were represented in dresses of black and red, with fiery eyes and snaky locks, and garnished with every pendage of horror. A History of Pantomime The tense collars fly, and the arrowy rush of the snaky dogs follows. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Three pairs of snaky black eyes looked steadily at me, and I stared back as directly into them. Vanguards of the Plains But more comical far, those creatures above, on its hollow back, clinging thereto like the snaky eels, that cling and slide on the back of the Sword fish, our terrible foe. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I The snaky wonder cried, Hissing, "Thou brown-haired youth, come up to me; I fain would have thee for my shrine afar, To serve among an host as beautiful As thou: draw near." Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. His flushed face, long snaky black locks, and flashing eyes all spoke of the wild fever in his blood and his Gallic origin. The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion One magnific pall Mantled in massive fold and fall His head, and coiled in snaky swathes About His feet; night's black, that bathes All else, broke, grizzled with despair, Against the soul of blackness there. Robert Browning Fitful unconsciousness, with fever and delirium, seeing mocking faces with snaky black eyes, looking long at me; food almost touching my lips, and floods of crystal waters everywhere just out of reach. Vanguards of the Plains Would they devour an innocent voyager? their great black prows curling aloft, and thrown back like trunks of elephants; a dark, snaky length behind, like the sea-serpent's train. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Some of them are large—especially the orange-coloured variety—three or four feet in length, and often one will raise his snaky head apparently out of solid rock and regard you steadily for a moment. By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories The snaky branches of the deeper weeds flickered like the flames of spirit lamps; but, after a time, there were no more weeds. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents The necklace slipped snakily over his hand—one of those white, firm hands which could guide the knife so well—and Anthony Dexter shuddered. A Spinner in the Sun The image of six pairs of snaky black eyes came to help the benumbed brain, and I knew with whom I was again captive. Vanguards of the Plains The brothers were in a snaky country, West Virginia. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts She threw away the snaky stem of water-pipe, and gripped both hands on the trooper's sword, till the muscles stood out in high relief. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle There's a sort of snaky, coiling movement runs up her whole body. The Way of an Eagle Was she to see forever his pearl necklace, discoloured, snaky, and cold, as meaningless as the yellow slip of paper that had come with it? A Spinner in the Sun So, after getting his long legs into working order, he went very well, though with a snaky movement at first, and then I started. Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden By this time we were half-way to Paris, and the student, satisfied with his success, packed up his folio, brought out a great meerschaum with a snaky tube, and smoked like a factory-chimney. In the Days of My Youth Sea onions, with stems thirty feet long, and bulbous air-filled sacks, reach out their long snaky arms, like an octopus, and woe to the swimmer who becomes entangled in their slimy folds. Byways Around San Francisco Bay Supple, snaky vines writhe amid the foliage, and bind the undergrowth together. The Long White Cloud The stream is almost as broad as the Ohio, and, in its snaky turns, crooked as the Mississippi. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient Garcia's snaky glance just rose to the honest woman's face, and then crawled hurriedly all about the veranda, as if trying to hide in corners. Overland Not even the sight of a still body in the starboard gallery—a body from under which a snaky red line was crawling, zigzagging with each pitch of the liner—gave them any pause. The Flying Legion Two long weeks, while from the surrounding hills they watched long stock trains winding snakily over the prairie toward Chicago. The Long Shadow Those two trips had accomplished much towards making it a pliable, live thing in the hands of one skilled to direct its snaky dartings here and there, wherever one willed it to go. The Gringos And those brave bulls among men assailed each other with arrows of snaky forms and resembling blazing fires. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Virata Parva He pushed on a few Buttons and blew into several snaky Tubes and put the whole Shop on the Jump to find Mr. Byrd. More Fables No signs of any unusual disturbance could be seen among the chattering crews of the snaky little boats and deep-laden "doungas" that lined the banks or furrowed the waters of the shining river. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil The snaky branches of the deeper weeds flickered like the flames of spirit-lamps; but, after a time, there were no more weeds. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories A snaky, six-strand riata can be a rather terrible weapon, he decided, while he loosed it and flung it from him. The Gringos Altogether, it is not to be wondered that such sturdy sons of Ham as Ambrose disliked the snaky Mr. Raffin. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Crags of bluish or reddish rock lined the roadway on either side, with pines and cypresses rising from the hollows, and extending black, winding, snaky roots out over the fallow soil. The Torrent Entre Naranjos Suddenly the lasso flies in snaky coils over the head of the beast, and is drawn with strangulating tightness about its neck. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 The robe, again, in its voluminous and snaky coils, and the triangular nimbus of the Deity, convey an effect of heaviness rather than of majesty. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts Before him, its empty arms stretched toward him, its straps and wires twisting snakily in front of him, was The Chair! O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 I was wholly absorbed in their snaky evolutions, and buried in mythological reminiscences, when my g�ruda roused me suddenly, by saying: Huzoor, look! An Essence of the Dusk, 5th Edition Instead, he felt a snaky hand slip down his arm, seize his fingers and twist the gun away. Boy Scouts on Motorcycles With the Flying Squadron Here nor reason is hid, vailed in innocence, Nor envy's snaky eye, finds any harbour here. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 395, October 24, 1829 She saw him shake his head, saw him fling forward again, and the snaky head crept once more to the neck of the mare, to her ears, and on and on. Alcatraz On, deeper and deeper into the wood,—now dodging under the green and snaky cat-briers, with their retractile thorns and vicious clinging grasp,—now dashing along the woodman's paths,—now struggling among the opposing underwood. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 He did his snaky, practised best, but it was not quite good enough. The Port of Adventure On the left arm was a shield, and in its center appeared a lifelike representation of the head of Medusa with the snaky locks. Tanglewood Tales This is no Grecian fable, of fountains running wine, Of maids with snaky tresses, or sailors turned to swine. Lays of Ancient Rome Then from horizon to shore ran one uninterrupted heaving—one vast green swarming of snaky shapes, rolling in to hiss and flatten upon the sand. Chita: a Memory of Last Island Those snaky women were unthinkable, but inspiration secured them for us, thanks to goodness. What Is Man? and Other Essays I felt one of the snaky tentacles wrap itself round my legs and body, and raised my voice in a warning to Harry, but too late. Under the Andes Herkimer remarked that his complexion had a greenish tinge over its sickly white, reminding him of a species of marble out of which he had once wrought a head of Envy, with her snaky locks. Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Then you transport gingerly that slippery, clammy, soggy, snaky, cold bundle of greasy horror to the bank of the creek, and there for endless hours you wash it. The Mountains She remembered the tales they told of the big log overhead and she was afraid of those snaky things on the windowsills. The Troll Garden and Selected Stories Ordinarily," said Mr. Thoburn, with his snaky eyes on me, "I think I may say that you might go almost anywhere without my turning out to recover you. Where There's a Will I then began to cast my eye along the channel, perhaps instinctively feeling a snaky atmosphere, and finally discovered one rattler between my feet. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon I would claim to be another Pythoness if only it did not sound so snaky and wriggling. The Certain Hour It was baleful with the spirit of evil,—snaky and black, and with green sideways gleams in it. The Mountains And now great deeds Had been achieved, whereof all Hell had rung, Had not the snaky Sorceress, that sat Fast by Hell-gate and kept the fatal key, Risen, and with hideous outcry rushed between. Paradise Lost The next moment they were bowing and salaaming to him in their most polite and snaky way. The Moonstone Here it ran snakily and, carved by broad-tired wheels and beaten out by slowly plodding hoofs in a soil more than half sand, glimmered white as rock-salt where the drifting leaves had left it naked. The Bronze Bell They rootled in the tall grass or shouldered in long, snaky lines through the canes, their trunks waggling. The Trail Book He picked out of the mass a chain of diamonds and spread it out on his snaky fingers so that the light could play on it. Way of the Lawless The little waiter with the snaky hair glanced swiftly across the room in the direction of the cripple huddled up in the armchair. The Mystery of the Four Fingers And thou, Alecto, hearken to my call; Let fall a serpent from thy snaky hair; Tisiphone, be swift to plague them all, That make a pastime of my care and fear! A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 But every step met its obstacle; there were low boughs, festoons of long-moss, bushes, briers, brake-cane, mossy logs, snaky pools, and things half fallen and held dead. The Cavalier The green sea closes Its burnished skin; the snaky swell smoothes over ... Georgian Poetry 1920-22 Another, plunged up to his middle in earth and stretching out despairing arms, was Chore, not Ophiuchus, and a third, hung by his hair to a snaky tree, was Absolon. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories The Egyptian Medusa is represented on antient gems with wings on her head, snaky hair, and a beautiful countenance, which appears intensely thinking; and was supposed to represent divine wisdom. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Around and above him he beheld showers of glittering sparks,—snaky threads of light,—fantastic figures of fire,—jets of liquid lustre. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 The imp shall appear, and shake horrors from her snaky hair! Anna St. Ives And the Wondersmith laughed horribly, while the snaky moustache on his upper lip writhed as if it had truly a serpent's power and could sting. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 I cannot say that I should like to have so much snaky nature transferred into my composition, nor to live amongst people whose bite is venomous…. Life in Mexico A cow-puncher togged up like he was going after the snakiest bronk in the country, when he was only going to drive to town in a buckboard! Chip, of the Flying U Evidently by the unknown speaker she had been first puzzled, then startled, then horrified; and now, as her anguished cry still rang in my ears, that snaky premonition of evil again writhed across my consciousness. Ruggles of Red Gap His girl grew longer and lazier and handsomer, with a shapelier bust and a pair of arms like that snaky Bacchante in the Opera. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Anarchy raised its snaky locks and peered red-eyed through the darkened streets of the city. The Sign at Six On their lee, high in the heaven, a glowing smother hung in the dark over a snaky brood, darting red tongues hither and thither. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea When Thomas Paine was dying he was infested by fanatics, by the snaky spies of bigotry. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest His snaky eyes rolled in red sockets; nor could he lift his hand without a violent tremor; while his racking cough many a time startled us from sleep. Redburn. His First Voyage The head is bruised; what remains is but the dying lashing of the snaky horror's powerless coils. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark The door opened, and the swarthy Reginald, diabolically handsome, with his black snaky curls, entered the room. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day I shall be proud to introduce you to our slim and snaky sort at Coolspring. The Fallen Leaves I never knew you were so deep and snaky. The Adventures of Sally If he had been wise, he would have achieved his object, the getting a glimpse of Mike’s boots, by a devious and snaky route. Mike It is common with you to join hands with the men you meet; but with the slave-dealer you avoid the ceremony-- instinctively shrinking from the snaky contact. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form He lit a pool of paraffine on the scullery floor, and instantly a nest of snaky, wavering blue flame became agog for prey. The History of Mr. Polly The idea of a snaky woman is as old as the fable of Medusa. Cambridge Sketches So I shall have to exercise a good deal of snaky craft in smuggling this letter through. The Adventures of Sally His snaky coils, with which he used to snare me, are exhausted—I am free. The Home and the World About a mile further on he heard a rustling in the grass to the right, and, looking round, saw another goanna gliding off sideways, with its long snaky neck turned towards him. While the Billy Boils The subtle caution of our snaky guest did not serve to hide from my watchful eyes that he was very much surprised when he beheld her. The Purple Land A youth of about eighteen, and even more handsome than his sire, he has the pretty look, the sloping shoulders, the soft snaky movements, and the quiet, subdued voice of a nice girl. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 The snaky vines seemed to us to be leagued with Leith as we tried to force our way to the spot where the tiny flash of light had appeared amongst the rocks. The White Waterfall There for some time it sat preening its feathers, with monstrous twistings and untwistings of its snaky neck. A Florida Sketch-Book A dull sunset lay low on the water, burning like a bale-fire through the snaky trail of smoke that went writhing past the car windows. Men, Women, and Ghosts Nothing but his mouth, that was somewhat small, Moorish-arched, and wickedly delicate, and his snaky, black eye, that at times shone like a dark-lantern in a jeweller-shop at midnight, betokened the accomplished scoundrel within. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War If anything comes near enough, out flicks a long, tapering, snaky arm, and holds the victim tight. Within the Deep Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Book VIII. The snaky, moist lianas made progress next to impossible. The White Waterfall If he had been wise, he would have achieved his object, the getting a glimpse of Mike's shoes, by a devious and snaky route. Mike and Psmith A spot of the good old snaky work. Right Ho, Jeeves Far away, miles and miles, near the summit of Scalped Mountain, a snaky form of mist was twisting swiftly down. Bull Hunter Her auburn hair curled over her white forehead, and snakily twisted around her ivory white ears. Purple Springs The wind had ceased somewhat on the morning of the third day, but the snaky rollers were still racing after the flying yacht. The White Waterfall Was not Medusa captivating, for all her snaky locks? The House of the Whispering Pines Instead, he had worked a snaky way along the floor and now he leaped in and up at Lefty, taking him under the arms. Gunman's Reckoning He could not bear the thought of the great stallion struggling helpless in the snaky coils of the rope. Bull Hunter There lies the viper on whom you have lavished your hospitality, the snaky and systematic serpent you have been induced by underhand means to pity. The Pothunters "All those snaky creepers with their coloured flowers seem to be hiding something." The White Waterfall The child's big black eyes, and long snaky locks falling about a pale face, gave her an elfish look quite in keeping with the character of the house. Miss Ludington's Sister A miser's heart—selfish, cold, snaky—is bred in its owner's being; and he thenceforth lives a very serpent's life. The Story of Siegfried They are huge braves, hideously streaked with war-paint, and hide the malignant gleams that shoot from their snaky eyes with assumed smiles and expressions of good nature. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" My heart is turned to direst hate against her; All gentle thoughts, all sweet forgiving words, Are gone, and round me stand with grisly mien, The fiends of hell, and shake their snaky locks! Mary Stuart When she sprang out of the lather, those devilish, snarling, snaky waves sprang after her, slapping at her flanks, tearing and biting at her like a pack of wolves. The White Waterfall Some of the older girls were beautiful in face as well as graceful in figure, but there was a snaky undulation about their movements which I never saw among Europeans. The Hawaiian Archipelago The chains of gold were exchanged, as luxury advanced, for strings of pearls and jewels, which swept in snaky folds about the feet and ankles. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 "I have brought you the Gorgon's head, snaky locks and all." Types of Children's Literature “What makes you think so?” she inquired through the snaky canopy. The Grey Lady We were within a few yards of Leith, and even as we moved snakily forward, the heavy bass voice of the scoundrel came to our ears. The White Waterfall Looking up at her, he had a glimpse of the bulge of her breasts and her large teeth that glinted in the lamplight, and very vague in the shadow, a mop of snaky, disordered hair. Three Soldiers What do you mean by debauching and degrading a good, pure word like love by applying it to this snaky, bestial fascination of yours. A Fool There Was Say, Miss Donnie, if ever I see a cold-blooded, fishy, snaky, ornery man, it's this T. Morgan Carey—an' at that he's a dead ringer for a church deacon. The Long Chance He was by no means an ill-looking man, but his snaky eyes and treacherous mouth told Ned to look out for him. Boy Scouts in a Submarine : or, Searching an Ocean Floor Even as it was, however, a sound caught his attention—an odd, hissing, whistling noise,—and he raised his long, snaky neck and head, now dyed a brilliant red, and dripping frightfully. The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages Down the beautiful green slopes into the Bois de Boulogne, the snaky lines of sap and trench bring the octopus daily nearer to the doomed modern Babylon. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Broom's hair still was black and snaky; his teeth were as yellow and jagged as they were in the seventies, and his eyes were as blue and ugly as ever. Jane Cable There was only one voice in all the world that had that hissing, snaky sound, and Larry knew it to his cost. The Shagganappi These craft are of two kinds, one shaped like a horse- trough, the other with a lean and snaky head. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Then swart Gorgona rears her snaky Zone Demanding Sip of Lip in poisonous Tone While back Abaft I cower, for well I wot A Face like that needs not a Chaperone. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. His high, hawklike features and snaky black hair bore the mark of that unknown historic thing which is crudely called Celtic, but which is probably far older than the Celts, whoever they were. The Ball and the Cross Beautiful the strange, snaky lifting of the muzzles, the swaying of the sharp horns. Aaron's Rod Then came a hurried good-bye between the two creatures outside, and Fox-Foot slipped back into the tent, slipped back noiselessly, snakily as an eel in its own slime. The Shagganappi We see a triple monster, or rather three monsters, with human heads and trunks and arms the human bodies passing into long snaky bodies coiled together. A History of Greek Art I sketched a caricature of Medusa, the anguished features and snaky locks travestied with satiric grimness. By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy Lovely spot it must be: the garden of the world, big lazy leaves to float about on, cactuses, flowery meads, snaky lianas they call them. Ulysses His soul sickened at the thought of a torpid snaky life feeding itself out of the tender marrow of his life and fattening upon the slime of lust. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man These posts are painted red, black, and white, with a snaky pattern, the Kurreah sign, on them. The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia This is a bearded giant, with animal ears and with legs that pass into long snaky bodies. A History of Greek Art What! use the virtue of your snaky tip staff there upon us? Cynthia's Revels It was too late after this for the winding of the snaky line about the streets and parks of East Melbourne, which constituted the boarders' daily exercise. The Getting of Wisdom I must know first if Mr. Engelman has really set his heart on the woman with the snaky movements and the sleepy eyes. Jezebel's Daughter The best that giant could think of was that Perseus should show him the snaky head of Medusa, that he might be turned to stone and be at rest from his heavy load. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable The leafy curtain burst into tatters; the jungle ropes and snaky stems, tearing the branches from the treetops, were in a few moments heaped in a tangled and confused ruin. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon While the fishermen are here, it would seem that the long, snaky pickerel is the chief game pursued and caught. Their Pilgrimage A sudden yelp of panting cruelty and frenzied anticipation at Courtland's back caused him to change front quickly, and the dripping fangs and snaky boa-like neck of a gray weird shadow passed him. Sally Dows "Mrs. Narracombe, my aunt," had a quick, dark eye, like a mother wild-duck's, and something of the same snaky turn about her neck. Five Tales Putting the trophy in his pouch he flew away just as the two immortal sisters were awakened by the hissings of their snaky locks. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable She saw it now, its snaky branches, its darkness, and great forms, as an abode of giants and witches. Saint's Progress It is common with you to join hands with the men you meet, but with the slave-dealer you avoid the ceremony—instinctively shrinking from the snaky contact. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 Though he was little taller than herself, she was conscious suddenly of how thick and steely he was beneath his dapper garments, and of a kind of snaky will-power in his face. Beyond The woman's quick eye and snaky neck seemed to have a new alacrity this morning. Five Tales Of course it was probable that she had listened to this snaky. tongued Rufus Coleman, but that was ever the mistake that women made. Active Service Here the old man will rub his nose, and shake his long snaky locks, and lick his bearded lips, and grin till the yellow tooth- stumps show. Soldiers Three - Part 2 The hair hung, not in shocks, but in snaky wisps, mingling with a beard which was grey and matted. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Its trailing roots were festooned with clinging sea-weed and the long, snaky, undulating stems of the sea-turnip; and fixed between two crossing roots was a bamboo orange crate, almost intact. Drift from Two Shores The tall prow seemed doubly tall, and the red light playing upon its gilt and carving gave it an appearance of snaky life. Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ It was the face of a corpse; it was the head of a skeleton; it was a monstrous visage, with snaky locks, like Medusa's, and one great red eye in the centre of the forehead. The Blithedale Romance And it seemed, while in the air, she saw a long, snaky, whipping loop of rope shoot out and close just where Sage King's legs had been. Wildfire If Baxter had been wise he would have achieved his object—the getting a glimpse of Joan's shoes—by a devious and snaky route. Something New Away from thee did I spring, and from thy snaky tresses: then stoodst thou there half-turned, and in thine eye caresses. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none "There's nothing so snaky about her that I could see," defended Rowdy. Rowdy of the Cross L The snaky head of Black Bart thrust into the room. The Seventh Man |
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