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  • The most distant of the three was nothing more than a sinuous thread coiling over the water.†  (source)
  • With its sinuous trunk it stroked the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh.†  (source)
  • She turned to David, her vision spotted with sinuous shapes from staring into the fire.†  (source)
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  • They continued ascending the sinuous passages.†  (source)
  • Celeste moved sinuously from her seat in the top row and down the steps.†  (source)
  • And behind them, in a long sinuous line, came the rats.†  (source)
  • But the song was a slow-moving ballad, and Chablis swayed sinuously rather than bumped.†  (source)
  • Jenny's voice drops to a sinuous whisper, like a little snake forking its tongue in my ear.†  (source)
  • The light was dimmer than it had been by day; there were no fires burning under the mantelpieces set into the walls, but as the lift slid smoothly to a halt he saw that golden symbols continued to twist sinuously in the dark blue ceiling.†  (source)
  • Her eyes traced the sleek shape of the table's legs, the sinuous curves of its corners, the gleam of its reflective, dark brown surface.†  (source)
  • There was nothing she could not describe: the gentle pad of a maniac's tread moving sinuously along the drive, keeping to the verge to muffle his approach.†  (source)
  • Sinuous glassy wavelets.†  (source)
  • It was a yellow sand esker, rising to a height of fifty or sixty feet and winding sinuously away into the distance like a gigantic snake.†  (source)
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