His jaw seemed to set with a snap, and his thin lips formed a narrow, hairlike line as a second later he saw something else.
"The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune"
Wilbur Lawton
It was a fine September evening, just before sunset, when yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines, and the atmosphere itself forms a prospect without aid from more solid objects, except the innumerable winged insects that dance in it.
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy
The curious hairlike worms known to the school boys as "hair snakes" because of the belief that they are parts of horse hairs turned into snakes, are worms that pass the early part of their life within the bodies of grasshoppers and, when the insects die, the worms escape and are washed by rains into troughs and ponds where their movements attract attention.
"Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study"
Ontario Ministry of Education