A snake is a limbless reptile. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Something small, limbless and throbbing was on the slide. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
Decapitated, limbless bodies were piled all around the hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortress of the Pearl]
It is limbless, snake-like, slimy and almost impossible to hold. From Wordnik.com. [James Prosek: 'Eels': The World's Most Mysterious Fish] Reference
In this limbless, senseless state the females remain fall and winter. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881] Reference
Yet it caused an entire generation to give birth to limbless children. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Wheel]
So far those large limbless crawlers showed no signs of eliciting her sympathies. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Those not uprooted or broken at the trunk, are almost limbless and entirely leafless. From Wordnik.com. [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference
They claim she backed off her oral OK to play the heroine-who lives, limbless, in a box. From Wordnik.com. [Suit Alors! Here Comes The Real L.A. Law] Reference
Terrifying android interlude: A limbless humanoid robot controllable over long distances. From Wordnik.com. [Wonkbook: State aid delayed; EPA regs face lawsuit; GOP targets health care funding; oil spill larger than thought] Reference
It was what each of the limbless, sightless, mewling breeders in the Underneath were kept alive for. From Wordnik.com. [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference
It was a limbless thing, with a horrible face, that writhed along the ground in a serpentine fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
She leaned forward against the high restraining chair-arms that kept her limbless body from toppling. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
There were large and small tree-trunks battered and limbless, the ends pounded to a spongy mass of splinters. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
Riviera and the limbless torso writhed together on the bed, crawled over by the hands with their bright nails. From Wordnik.com. [Neuromancer]
To a formerly limbless creature arms and legs, hands and feet, would be more of a novelty than even human speech. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdoms of Light]
Mark Burrier will have Show Off, a 16-page collection of drawings of "strange limbless people speaking to each other.". From Wordnik.com. [A guide to this year’s MoCCA Festival debuts | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference
Animals constructed most naturally are made to move at two or four points, and even limbless Sanguinea are no exception. From Wordnik.com. [On the Gait of Animals] Reference
Sibankulu, whose charred and limbless body was found in the burnt-out wreck of his car in November 1992 had been shot at by. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Newcastle trade unionist Professor Sibankulu, whose charred and limbless body was found in the burnt-out wreck of his car in. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Straight and limbless like a crowded field of telephone poles in Kelly green, they soar to the height of twenty feet or more. From Wordnik.com. [A glass garden] Reference
The family of a Newcastle trade unionist, a Prof Sibankulu, whose limbless body was found in the burnt-out wreck of his car in. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
A single dead tree, some forty feet in height and almost limbless, stood in solemn grandeur in the midst of the sawdust waste. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
Behind the head came the bloated, baglike,, limbless body, as big as one of the colossal wine vats in King Ario-stro's cellars. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
For example, the pavilion contained no playground for children, because thranx larvae existed in a state of limbless attention. From Wordnik.com. [Diuturnity's Dawn]
Displayed on limbless mannequins, photographed against a gray background under clinical lighting, they have an embalmed quality. From Wordnik.com. [Costumes from Camelot] Reference
Its limbless attacker slid straight back into the water from which it had exploded, dragging the luckless maccaluca down with it. From Wordnik.com. [Drowning World]
She opens her mouth, and the ensuing roar drowns out the mewling screams of the limbless humans scattering away from the broken home. From Wordnik.com. [Samurai Kitteh] Reference
There we saw one pitiful sight after another: A shaved head and a limbless body that rocked on its back like a tortoise on its shell. From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
'Give us the talisman of Seth!' the mob howled, and Seth reached down and lifted the red sodden tunic of the limbless trunk at his feet. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
She stood frozen, limbless, as she focused on the dark-suited figure standing silhouetted against the wide floor-to-ceiling plate glass. From Wordnik.com. [Purchased By The Billionaire]
Seesis had come into full view now, revealing ten meters of snake body, limbless except for two delicate arms just under the big bald head. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
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