Or the body can shoot out long rods or snaky projections, which lift tables, and exert force which has been recorded upon pressure instruments and weighed by scales.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
At length, "waving her right hand before her husband's face with a significant and snaky motion," she reiterated her demand with a terrible calmness: "'When can I have some money?
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith
Here the ice became thin; we felt cold mist rising from open water; and now and then, in an occasional breaking of the darkness, we could discern vast sheets or snaky leads of open sea ahead of us.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook