Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having snaky locks or something like them: as, snake-locked Medusa; the snake-locked anemone, a kind of sea-anemone, Sagartia viduata.
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Examples
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If Paul was dangerous, if Zilla was a snake-locked fury, if the neat emotions suitable to the Revelstoke Arms had been slashed into raw hatreds, it was Babbitt who was the most formidable.
Babbit 2004
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If Paul was dangerous, if Zilla was a snake-locked fury, if the neat emotions suitable to the Revelstoke Arms had been slashed into raw hatreds, it was Babbitt who was the most formidable.
Chapter 10 1922
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If Paul was dangerous, if Zilla was a snake-locked fury, if the neat emotions suitable to the Revelstoke Arms had been slashed into raw hatreds, it was Babbitt who was the most formidable.
Babbitt 1922
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If Paul was dangerous, if Zilla was a snake-locked fury, if the neat emotions suitable to the
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Then he shall be scourged with self-contempt, the bitterest of tortures; and the quick natural punishments of indulgence shall be busy with him, snake-locked
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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