snakish

Some of the blows of my cane came home and roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person it saw.

Sole Music 2010

At last, Stephen can use his snakish treachery for Good.

Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Tocantins: NOT About Susan Boyle! 2009

When I made it to the hallway a snakish white man was standing where Marla was supposed to be.

White Butterfly Walter Mosley 1992

During the whole conversation, such was the electrical power of the priest over my mother's weak and nervous system, that if she attempted to say a word in my behalf, the keen, snakish black eye of the priest would at once make her tremble and quail before him, and the half uttered word would remain silent on her lips.

Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson

Some of the blows of my cane came home and roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person it saw.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950

Some of the blows of my cane came home and roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person it saw.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950

I looked at his snakish eyes, and concluded to leave my sick deacon to see James, who still lingered in the ticket office.

A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

Then there was the janandra -- the big, snakish thing in the storage which

The Winds of Time James H. Schmitz 1946

Johnnie, was like a personality -- as if it were a queer sort of snakish thing, carefully watched over by the bulging, bloodshot eyes.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

The tawny figure, prone upon the tawny sand, was just visible, lean and snakish, slightly oscillating as it worked.

Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911

Another one about memory: In medieval Estonia, the last speaker of the animal language “snakish” lives in the woods with his family and animal friends.

TITAA #30: Old Cities, Memory, and Lost Ships Lynn Cherny 2022