Use "serpentine" in a sentence

1. The villas were once substantial residences, a world or parlours and roast meat, of the girl in service and the rustle of long skirts, but now they host the two-ring lives of students and people like Ted, people screaming silently, inwardly, as splinters drive under their fingernails as they claw their way up or slide their way down life's serpentine ladders

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2. Suddenly, all along the wall translucent dragons or skeletons (I honestly can't remember which) were moving with serpentine like motions

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3. had drowned in the Serpentine

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4. The sunlit world outside was golden and beautiful, even through the faint serpentine images on the glass, but it offered no comfort

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5. Situated at the confluence of the Serpentine and the Columbia rivers, with direct rail connections to busy overseas ports of both Washington and Oregon, the Arborville rail yard had developed into a busy switching station

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6. With no moon to light the way, how would Jasper and I find our way to the Serpentine? We’d be forced to stop

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7. into the head of Apophis, with yel ow serpentine eyes and dripping fangs

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8. It had a serpentine head with long fangs and thin bony spikes connected by a thin membrane to form a fin along its long neck

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9. Sandwiches and a thermos of coffee tasted great on a hired rowboat on the Serpentine, having padlocked the wheelchair to the railings, then an ‘oom pah pah’ brass band in the rotunda with not a microphone or amplifier in sight, rounded off a perfect afternoon

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10. As the fighters marched along the serpentine passage they passed many cracks and roughly hewed doorways

11. A number of the serpentine creatures emerged from the gaping tunnels in the hills

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12. He sought to lift his sword, to hew down the serpentine stalks, but his arm hung lifeless at his side

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13. An old fence line separated the fields from the lane---mostly cedar serpentine rails crisscrossed and wired together

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14. It flamed, smoldered; a blue serpentine of smoke rose and swayed upward about Orastes in a slender spiral

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15. With the frenetic side to side serpentine motion of a ruptured air hose the fired up boar raked the bull‘s hind legs as the bucking animal tried to turn and gore his tormentor

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16. The silver twisted around their arms until it formed the head of a serpentine creature over the top of their hands

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17. The hair there was shaved into the pattern of some serpentine creature

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18. She looked up and saw a serpentine creature in the air with a white body

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19. It is a proven scientific fact that underground volcanoes caused by faulting, and a rock formation called serpentine

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20. Leah could see its shape forming in the ether between them: serpentine and

21. In all, a typical Spirit possession, probably Saint Danbhalla or one of his many serpentine aspects

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22. The gathering is bigger than you, more ancient, and it has more serpentine roots in and out of time

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23. Laeron bowed his serpentine head with his usual liquid grace

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24. Another rune snaked toward him, a serpentine twist of delicate knots

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25. Laeron landed next to King Exinder and bowed his serpentine head

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26. Fenton remained in his shiny black serpentine form, creeping around in near silence, half walking and half slithering

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27. Fenton, still in his serpentine body, loitered in the bushes

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28. “More to the point, I wonder if they’ve missed Fenton,” Abigail said, glancing at the serpentine creature loitering in the street

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29. And then Dewey’s mom gasped and pointed, and one by one the adults saw the black, serpentine creature hanging from the lamppost

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30. Most, however, were lying flat on their faces, unconscious, arms and legs dangling on either side of the enormous serpentine body

31. ’ The necklace was one of a kind, a delicate 24 carat gold serpentine chain supporting an heirloom black opal attached by carved ivory fittings

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32. ” He clasped a necklace around my throat; the mirror showed a delicate 24 carat gold serpentine chain supporting an heirloom black opal attached by carved ivory fittings

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33. He placed the talisman on a serpentine chain, and clasped it around my neck

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34. Serpentine, with impossible angles not imposed upon creatures that climbed trees and waved through deserts, its cheeks are hollow, its jaw strong, its chin cleft, its lips painted

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35. The thing with the serpentine face steps forward

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36. Her fears, her doubts, her insecurities, her pains, sorrows and frustrations—she implicates all of these things, and more, into the flames that cast the world afire, and it is no surprise when in but a moment the nameless thing that was so tall and imposing with yellow eyes and a serpentine face collapses into nothing

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37. Until recently in heavenly history all its seven regions had been the principal abode of King Vasuki and his serpentine subordinates the Nagas

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38. feather cape and a golden serpentine mask, but the

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39. Hence Zeus’ battle with the serpentine

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40. serpentine, or bull-horned gods with civilization,

41. The serpentine road led them higher and higher until they

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42. embracing him as they spiraled up the serpentine road in the

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43. This is how the undead “E” energy of these filthy unseen things twists your natural healthy aura energy into a cunning serpentine “S”… destroying your natural hale, healthy radiating living energy: which should radiated out happily and healthily: instead of getting all twisted up into knots inside you

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44. On her face, however, rested an oddly chilling smile, with eyes that were like slivers of ice, and lips that looked almost serpentine

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45. explorations, writhing serpentine like, flesh upon flesh and mouth to mouth; and then the

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46. They were clueless as to what awaited them at the end of the serpentine road

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47. "Was Clara," he thought, pausing to watch the boys bathing in the Serpentine, "the silent woman?--would Jacob marry her?"

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48. They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun--hark to

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49. She had a serpentine way of coming close at me when she pretended to be vitally interested in the friends and localities I had left, which was altogether snaky and fork-tongued; and when she made an occasional bounce upon Startop (who said very little to her), or upon Drummle (who said less), I rather envied them for being on the opposite side of the table

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50. Down the road lumbered the train through forests faintly, tiredly gold, past red hillsides still scarred with serpentine breastworks, past old battery emplacements and weed-grown craters, down the road over which Johnston’s men had retreated so bitterly, fighting every step of the way

51. Tess soon perceived as she walked in the flock, sometimes with this one, sometimes with that, that the fresh night air was producing staggerings and serpentine courses among the men who had partaken

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52. She had reached the top of a hill down which the lane stretched its serpentine length in glimpses, when she heard footsteps behind her back, and in a few moments she was overtaken by a man

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53. ’Tis neither Rude Excrescence nor Gothick Error; ’tis neither too flat nor too high, but a Harmony entire of Serpentine Curves

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54. I kept vigil at Sohrab's bedside in the daytime and wandered through the hospital's serpentine corridors at night, listening to my shoe heels clicking on the tiles, thinking of what I would say to Sohrab when he woke up

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55. Time flowed away in a serpentine of gas

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56. He furled the hot wire like serpentine in his fingers, ripped it

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57. Nicholas with a self-made snow flurry blowing on before him, Bluebeard with whiskers like acetylene flame, and sulphur clouds from which green fire snouts protruded, and, in scaly and gigantic serpentine, a dragon with a furnace in its belly reeled out the door with a scream, a tick, a bellow, a silence, a rush, a wind

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58. “Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine

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59. I puzzled over this for a time, and then went on to the bridge over the Serpentine

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60. Such a clearer! such a sweetener! such a softener! such a delicious molifier! After having my hands in it for only a few minutes, my fingers felt like eels, and began, as it were, to serpentine and spiralise

61. Through the meadows in the valley beneath a serpentine rivulet wound its silvery way, interrupted by numerous falls and huge blocks of stone, which had been carried down in bygone ages from the mountains during the melting of the snows

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62. It is a primitive, insulated elevation, with a nucleus of serpentine; the ground gradually descends in every direction except on the river side, where mural precipices of serpentine rock are observed, extending about 100 rods parallel with the water, and elevated from 60 to 100 feet above its level

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63. The carbonate of magnesia I found in horizontal veins of nearly two inches in breadth, and of unknown depth, in a midway region of this serpentine ledge; I extracted a considerable quantity with a spoon

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64. The serpentine of Hoboken, then, is memorable for affording these two new species

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65. Far as the eye can carry you, a delightful country extends, through which numerous streams wind their serpentine courses, with groves and clumps of trees at intervals upon their banks

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66. Serpentine, metamorphic, through the agency of heated waters, xlv, 120

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