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Definition of Snakily
1. snaky [adv] - See also: snaky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snakily
Literary usage of Snakily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"To the left of it, through a widening forested valley, 'opening from the tree-clad
gorge, the river wound snakily away northwestward. Far as he could see, ..."
2. Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12 by Janet Allen (1999)
"... horizontally, vertically, or snakily formed in the tray. If the letters are
connected, they will spell—longer words are rewarded with more points. ..."
3. Red Fox: The Story of His Adventurous Career in the Ringwaak Wilds and of by Charles George Douglas Roberts (1905)
"He darted away snakily toward the brook, where he had certain hidden runways
beneath the edges of the ice. And the bright emptiness of the cold settled down ..."
4. Art and Common Sense by Royal Cortissoz (1913)
"low structures, with their red tiled roofs faded to a soft rose, and mile on mile
of high-road travelling snakily past them toward the church-crowned ..."
5. Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology by Richard Aldington (1916)
"... men of the village in their Sunday clothes, pull their bob/major on the red
and white grip of the bell/ropes, that fly up, and then fall snakily. ..."
6. The English Illustrated Magazine (1897)
"Lines of lustreless brown water crawled snakily beside her, widening into pools
filmed with dull iridescence, misting upwards like evil thoughts rising from ..."
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