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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • If Paul was dangerous, if Zilla was a snake-locked fury, if the neat emotions suitable to the

    Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • 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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