Which preposition to use with serpentine
It is serpentine in its course most of the way, and where the Nordenskiold joins it is very crooked, running several times under a hill, named by Schwatka Tantalus Butte, and in other places leaving it, for a distance of eight miles.
Your Hound, Russ, dreams of you plunging into the Serpentine after a Canadian Goose, with your topper floating behind you, or Anonyma with her tongue hanging out, scratching at a little mousehole in Piccadilly.
" He watched the rope creep into the hole, and it seemed as though it had become animated by a serpentine intelligencefor the darkness made the twine invisible.
We feel that the playwright is, so to speak, inventing as he goes alongthat the action, like the child's fantastic serpentine of blocks, might at any moment take a turn in any possible direction without falsifying its antecedents or our expectations.
He likened the Serpentine to Life, and found Meaning in the dark banks of Kensington Gardens and the remote bright lights.