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sinuous
1. but he could see the glint of its sinuous chrome umbilical out the corner of his eye
2. away, and I was sure I could detect every sinuous fiber in that boy’s body
3. And on the harsh walls, sinuous shadows dance to the flame's rhythm
4. I walk as the panther, lithe and sinuous
5. They gently pull away his robe and underclothes from his sinuous, well-toned body
6. I was trying for sinuous grace and a
7. The blow knocked the great black body clear across the corridor and horribly the gigantic sinuous shape whipped around it in glistening coils that hid it from view, and the snap and splintering of bones came plainly to Conan's ears
8. Stooping for a closer look he became aware of a sinuous movement across the edge of the tile stoop
9. The tunnel was turning to the left, then to the right, in a sinuous
10. a sinuous cat before landing on the floor
11. A thundering mass of grey sinuous foreleg attached to a cocked hoof was the last thing the stooping convict saw
12. Jacob stopped on the sidewalk, joined the gaggles of dumb-struck tourists, stared up at Frank Lloyd Wright’s winding, organic, sinuous masterpiece as it glowed in the hot sun
13. sinuous movement that was hers alone
14. Leaving the men to their tasks, he strolled to the steps of his oasis, loose-limbed and sinuous, the very picture of the contented predator
15. sinuous lakes had all been carved by the slow, imperceptible
16. She leads him towards the steps, drawing him by the odour of her armpits, the vice of her painted eyes, the rustle of her slip in whose sinuous folds lurks the lion reek of all the male brutes that have possessed her
17. Never in his life had he seen a river before -- this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal
18. Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder
19. It wavered and quivered above us for a minute, the morning sun gleaming upon its sleek, sinuous coils
20. Out from the water a long sinuous tentacle had crawled; it was
21. Presently the hide-and-seek frolicking began, and Tom and Becky engaged in it with zeal until the exertion began to grow a trifle wearisome; then they wandered down a sinuous avenue holding their candles aloft and reading the tangled webwork of names, dates, postoffice addresses, and mottoes with which the rocky walls had been frescoed (in candle-smoke)
22. The next instant, with a sinuous dive he swept under Harker's arm, ere his blow could fall, and grasping a handful of the
23. The narrow, uneven, sinuous streets, full of angles and turns, were admirably chosen; the neighborhood of the Halles, in particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest
24. He considered it a stroke of good fortune that among so many hazardous encounters, the only woman who had made him taste a drop of bitterness was the sinuous Sara Noriega, who ended her days in the Divine Shepherdess Asylum, reciting senile verses of such outrageous obscenity that they were forced to isolate her so that she would not drive the rest of the madwomen crazy
25. The place was filled with creeping, crawling things; cold, sinuous bodies passed over me when I lay down, and in the darkness I occasionally caught glimpses of gleaming, fiery eyes, fixed in horrible intentness upon me
26. Her head was high in ever alert attention; her long tail moved slowly in sinuous and graceful undulations
27. A moment more and both shoulders through, the long, sinuous body and the narrow hips would glide quickly after
28. He passed above the sinuous body of Sabor, the lioness, going in the opposite direction—toward the cabin, thought Tarzan
29. Subsequently a peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the Martian disk
30. But after all, this son of the gods is befooled by a woman, a sinuous and transcendently ambitious Roman belle, the second wife of the dull and trustful prefect of Capua; for this tiny woman had all men in her net whom she found it useful to have there
31. At other times, if I was alone in the drawing-room and Lubotshka was performing some old-time air, I would find myself laying my book down, and gazing through the open doorway on to the balcony at the pendent, sinuous branches of the tall birch-trees where they stood overshadowed by the coming night, and at the clear sky where, if one looked at it intently enough, misty, yellowish spots would appear suddenly, and then disappear again
32. My long, steady stretch in that stealthy and sinuous company had put me in the state of mind in which it is impossible to credit any human being with a motive that is decent or an action that is not a dead-fall
