25 examples of snakelike in sentences

And Donnegan recognized the snakelike malice of the fat man in drawing him into the fight.

His eyes seemed to exercise a peculiar influence over me, a snakelike charm, against which I had to constantly battle.

It gave him an ominous, snakelike appearance about the head, but still Bull went steadily and slowly toward him with his hand out, that ancient gesture of peace and good will.

The blade flashed snakelike in his powerful grasp, the soldiers falling back before the fierce onslaught.

And the music, meanwhile, continued to issue from the white and snakelike fingers of Bruder Schliemann, as poisoned wine might issue from the weirdly fashioned necks of antique phials.

" The head at the top of the tower bent itself down to her with a snakelike motion.

It should be long, well arched, and quite clean and free from loose skin, held well up, snakelike in carriage, well set in the shoulders, and the junction of head and neck well defined.

The trench twisted snakelike in a general north and south direction, and was fitted every few feet with metal firing-shields, loopholed for rifles and machine guns.

"Will you take this to Jim Perris for me?" A gulp, a grin, a nod, he was down from the wagon in a flash and using his leanness to wriggle snakelike through the crowd.

For had he not seen the dead thing become alive and snakelike in the skilled hand of Manuel Cordova?

You remember that slinking black satin snakelike sheath that Gita Morini wore in "Little Eyolf"?

They knew this, of course, but the hose was unreeled, and a dozen people tripped up by its snakelike movements, the while bandsmen and gendarmes roared out manoeuvers.

He looked no longer frail, but wiry and snakelike.

Hair, the most mysterious of human things, the most manifold in form and hue, snakelike in its subtlety for the entanglement of souls, had naturally supreme attractiveness for the magician of the arts.

Her eyes fell upon a wriggling, snakelike thing that lay in this path of light.

Swaying unsteadily, the mulatto looked around him through eyes closed to snakelike slits.

Darters, with snakelike necks and pointed bills, perched in the trees on the brink of the river.

Then it fluttered up, and perched on a bough of the old oak, from the deep labyrinth of whose branches the other birds had emerged; and from thence it flew down and lighted on the broad druidic stone, that stood like a cyclopean table on its sunken stone props, before the snakelike roots of the oak.

I am thy friend!" He twisted his writhing snakelike fingers together.

He now saw that the snakelike heads belonged to creatures with large oval bodies, and that, besides the fifty or more which had come up to look at the fire, there were whole droves of them upon the sandy beach beyond.

" The doctor sent the boy to apprise the third officer of his responsibilities, and then stood watching the extraordinary and snakelike convolutions of Mr. Mackenzie.

Great granite rocks rise up like giants to dispute our passage, but by numerous twistings the path skirts their base, or wriggles snakelike over the top.

Barnacles cover the top of every rock that the tide reaches, and the long, blackish, snakelike seaweed is strewn along the beach.

But Black Bart crouched and the snakelike head lowered; he was quivering throughout that steel-muscled body to throw himself at her throat.

There was something snakelike in that slow approach, so silent and so gradual.

25 examples of  snakelike  in sentences