His eyes travelled beyond the gorge, the precipices, the tree-tops, beyond the hard white track far down beneath his feet, to the open country, bare, splendid, almost incredibly spacious, fiercely blooming in the strong colors-reds, yellows, golds-with long rolling slopes, dimpling shallow depressions, snakelike roads, visible surely for hundreds of kilometers, far-off ranges of solemn mountains whose crests seemed to hint at divinity.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
Broken bricks, tiles, and sculpture are so knit together by snakelike tree-roots, while shaded by their lofty branches, as to form one solid mass for hundreds of rods together, dotted here and there by simple wild flowers which modestly rear their delicate petals and perfume the air.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
As she spoke, another departing male guest came from behind Carlie and placed in her hand a snakelike article-a thing that Miss Lowe seized and concealed with one sweeping gesture.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington