Adjective, : a snaky remark. From Dictionary.com.
The entrance to the cave was pretty dark and "snaky"; maybe he would compromise and not go in. From Wordnik.com. [Frank of Freedom Hill] Reference
And not all was well in the MasterChef kitchen, with contestant's firing up over the "snaky" return of evictees. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
And here's four things that I don't suppose are good to eat -- they got kind of snaky heads, and red-colored, too. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive] Reference
Of hags with snaky tresses, and sailors turned to swine. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
"I have brought you the Gorgon's head, snaky locks and all!". From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
"I have brought you the Gorgon's head, snaky locks and all.". From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
Kind of a snaky river, an awful lot like the Missouri River. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2007] Reference
The robutler extruded a long, snaky arm with a flame, and lit it. From Wordnik.com. [A Place so Foreign] Reference
"He's the long, snaky knife that hangs in the parlor," said Hortense. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat in Grandfather's House] Reference
Carlitos Ortez was one of those snaky-looking, black-haired peons, with. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
A-watching of snaky-shaped hounds pelting 'ard' after bits o 'brown fluff. From Wordnik.com. [Punch Among the Planets] Reference
Orme found himself wondering what snaky plots were winding through that dark mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
Hamilton fed the first batter a snaky curve, which he lashed at savagely but vainly. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
Away, twenty miles to the south, in the sky could be seen the snaky outline of a zeppelin. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
The nearer he came, the more terrible did the snaky visage and metallic body of the monster grow. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Imagine how it feels to have a lover rub up against you at night, it's a snaky feeling already. From Wordnik.com. [Fear of Snakes] Reference
It stretched full thirty leagues in length and in breadth, and had wild beasts in it and snaky things. From Wordnik.com. [Aucassin and Nicolette translated from the Old French] Reference
The snaky-like line represents a sandbank, which was then thought, and agreed, to be the limit of fishing. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Jealousy, like a serpent, stole into their household, and involved the mind of the husband in her snaky embrace. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
"It wouldn't come to weak men," he said, baring an arm that showed great snaky muscles rippling beneath the clear skin. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
There, sitting in the bright kitchen, was the sharp-featured, snaky-looking man with whom Hiram had once talked in town. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
A slender snaky tentacle came lashing down and struck his shoulder with a force that sent him sprawling forward upon his face. From Wordnik.com. [Devil Crystals of Arret] Reference
Round this awful countenance hung snaky locks of ragged grey hair, and she was deadly pale, with a bleared and dimmed blue eye. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
Medusa's mask, livid amidst its grim and snaky locks, could hardly have produced a more terrible effect upon the poor old woman. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
A snaky sort of a man was Mr. Pepper -- sly, a hand-rubber as he talked, with a little, sickly grin playing about his thin, mean mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
Gorgo, with the snaky hair, was feeding, and he knew that if he could tame the steed he should then be able to conquer the fierce Chimæra. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
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