He could see fine detail: rivers like twisted snakes, undersea landscapes, a straight black thread that might be a Machine People highway.

It stretched away to either side of center for miles, sprawled like a twisted snake atop the blue- gray sea.

He had thrown the scarf on the floor where it lay like a twisted white snake.

The warglobe loomed closer, jagged blue weapon bolts dancing like twisted snakes across the isolated sky.

More machinery, cogs and wheels, a long, twisted snake of wire hawser, all dumped there and disintegrating in the cold and the wind and the snow.

The heavy baroque furniture, all twisted snakes and gargoyles' heads, was gilt, the huge couches and chairs covered in a dusty gold lame.

In one group scene, a man waves a prop resembling a twisted snake.

The twisted snakes that acted as ferrules on ceremonial staffs are amongst the less elaborate objects fashioned in this way.

Overhead, spanning the gully, stood the highway viaduct where Maharal's vehicle began its fatal plummet, the guardrail a twisted snake of shredded metal.

It was cushioned in black velvet, and above it was a bent arch of ivory on which glittered a twisted snake of clustered emeralds.