Suddenly it slipped into a spin and went slithering down into the city, leaving a gaping opening where it fell.
From the water was slithering another creature with a gigantic, quivering, jelly body.
Canst not even drive thatslithering physician from his side?
A desperately strong position to attack at sundown after eighteen miles slithering and shoving in the pouring rain; especially with unknown odds against you.
And then, even as I looked about me, there came to me across the silence of the beach a fresh noise, a continual soft slithering to and fro in the bottom of the valley, as though a multitude of creatures moved stealthily.
And immediately the things were gone, slithering hastily down over the cliff edge.
And she laughed a delicious little laugh, of pure glee as she replaced the garments on the chair, and slithering hither and thither in her unaccustomed footgear, tidied the tent and made her bed, regarding ruthfully the torn mosquito curtain.
They went by the main badger path, and crossed the lane which runs across Knockdane, slithering down a five-foot drop which is scored in every direction by deep claw-prints, and entered the Big Meadow together.
Then he had thrown the reins over his broncho's neck, headed the horse back up the Ridge and was slithering down the steep slope giving her hand-hold as of steel-springs.
Only the snow slides loosened by the noon-thaw slithering down the Pass of Holy Cross;" and somehow, he could not but think of what she had said .
He is glad when his motorcar gets held up by some old wagons slithering axle-deep in the quagmire on the side of the paved highway, so that he can put his head out and shout a "Hullo, boys!
We left the cars and, slithering in sticky mud, made our way up a hillock on which one of these innumerable windmills stood distinct.
He halted before me performing his new uncomfortable trick of slithering thumb over finger tips.
Jaffery's mind went back to the Bedlam of the slithering cargo.
It was not an easy operation; one slip and nothing could have stopped him slithering down and finally crashing into the garden below, with a broken leg, at the very least, for his pains.
However, that hall was just like the others, full of murmurs and slithering noises and shadowy things slipping away into corners.
I see a great broad worm wriggling up over the top of this height, and slithering off down the other side, and I believe, I do believe it is the Wall itself!
Slithering and wading through the loose snow, they reached the door of the farm-kitchen.
There was always the chance that the other car would come slithering along on our trail.
It was almost better than slithering along a hard road with a motor-car stripped to the running-gear.
I turned my head enough to see them slithering along close--abominably close.
Almost simultaneously Yeager brought the horse slithering to a halt and with one lithe swing of his body landed on the ground in front of the hotel porch.
But though he took steep hillsides of shale on the run, the pony slithering down in a slide of rubble like a cat, the rider's alert eyes watched the footing keenly.
Dragging his pony to a slithering halt, he leaped to the ground.
Then back he staggered, his windmill arms waving hugely, aimlessly, his knees wobbling, his feetslithering uncertainly over the short grass.
Never had Dave seen a plane come apart so completely in the air, and he gazed pop-eyed at the shower of debris slithering downward.
It was simply a shower of smouldering embers slithering down toward the blazing sands.
Before the inhuman feet behind him could resume their slithering advance at the fading of the distant illumination, Conan was running down the corridor.
At the same instant Conan was aware of a sinister slithering ahead of him.
The straining ears of Carnes and Lieutenant Pearce could hear a faint slithering noise coming toward them, not from the direction of the crack, but from the interior of the cave.
As it moved forward a rustling, slitheringsound could be heard, even over the bellowing of the steer and the hum of the apparatus.
For of a sudden the hard shell slipped from the thorax, the wing-cases dropped off, the whole of the bony parts slipped to the ground with a clang, and a soft, defenseless thing went slithering away among the rocks.
Every little while, slithering through the rain, splashing mud to the right and left, a convoy of camions went by and disappeared, truck after truck, in the white streaming rain.
It was raining outside and now and then a dripping camion passed along the road, slithering through the mud.
Feet first they dropped him upon the slithering mass of salmon five feet below.
Slithering past him in the water still persisted the mad rush of racing myriads.
Is that the way to come slithering down the Apostle's pillar?
Our idea was to keep to the floor so far as we were able; but most usually we were scrambling up a chimney orslithering down one, cutting round the foot of a tower or actually traversing along an icy crest.
