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She found herself slipping along more and more snakishly.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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She found herself slipping along more and more snakishly.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988
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Glancing down at his feet, Captain Delano saw the freed hand of the servant aiming with a second dagger -- a small one, before concealed in his wool -- with this he was snakishly writhing up from the boat's bottom, at the heart of his master, his countenance lividly vindictive, expressing the centred purpose of his soul; while the Spaniard, half-choked, was vainly shrinking away, with husky words, incoherent to all but the Portuguese.
The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855
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