serpenting

But the lions also had taken to serpenting about, and in the sudden silence caused by their movement the forest tribes heard Kwa shrill out something in the very language of the umkago, the red-headed monkey pilgrims.

The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna 2010

_ (Figures wind serpenting in slow woodland pattern around the treestems, cooeeing) _

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

The down rested on a bed of solid chalk, and the surface exposed by the roadmakers formed a white ribbon, serpenting from top to bottom.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

In fact, like a well-known political character, whose pleasure and amusement it has been for some years past to drive through acts of Parliament and deride the powers of the law, so did Mr. Webber tread his way, serpenting through the statute-book, ever grazing, but rarely trespassing upon some forbidden ground which might involve the great punishment of expulsion.

Charles O'Malley — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839

There were a great many other channels, some mere ribands of water, others narrow sounds, and many resembling broad, deep, serpenting creeks, which last was their true character, being strictly inlets from the sea.

The Crater James Fenimore Cooper 1820

Dan to a serpent; now observe how Judah with his lion-like courage prospered and prevailed, but Dan with all his serpenting subtlety could get no ground; craft and artful management do not always effect the wonders they pretend to.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721

a manner totally different from the varieties I have mentioned; boring a round hole in the sand, in a serpenting direction, and about two feet deep.

Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux