He knew they were being carried steadily and slowly seaward, but he had hopes that the ice field would swerve landward toward the south where an armlike glacier jutted, elbow-fashion, into the sea and caught the current.
"The Eternal Maiden"
T. Everett Harré
They were bipeds with two armlike extensions, lumpy objects, clad in bulky white folds.
"The Secret of the Ninth Planet"
Donald Allen Wollheim
Fish with huge, goggling eyes; fish plentifully equipped with long, armlike tentacles; fish poised before control panels or darting about intent upon their various duties.
"Triplanetary"
Edward Elmer Smith