snaky

käärmemäinen Resembling or relating to snakes.
1851, (w), (w), Chapter 27,http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-h/2701-h.htm

To look at the tawny brawn of his lithe snaky limbs, you would almost have credited the superstitions of some of the earlier Puritans, and half-believed this wild Indian to be a son of the Prince of the Powers of the Air.

So are those crisped snaky golden locks

Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,

Upon supposed fairness, often known

To be the dowry of a second head,

The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.

The nuns’ veils billowed and flapped behind the snaky line of girls as if the sisters were shooing the serpent from the Garden of Eden.

Walking through the snaky passages I was soon completely lost.

So to the coast of Jordan he directs

His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles,

What was that snaky-headed Gorgon shield

That wise Minerva wore, unconquered virgin,

Wherewith she freezed her foes to congealed stone,

But rigid looks of chaste austerity,

And noble grace that dashed brute violence

With sudden adoration and blank awe?

His hat adorned with wings disclosed the god,

And in his hand he bore the sleep-compelling rod;

Such as he seemed, when, at his sire’s command,

On Argus’ head he laid the snaky wand.