There were these slithery things that looked sort of like snakes, only with fronds like willow trees.

It overlaps the circle, the heatless flames flicker and start to gutter, and now they see long, slithery things emerging from the vortex of the Abyss.

There comes a howling as the slithery things are hurled backward into the Abyss.

Nasty crawly things there . . . and slithery things.

She would not let Sean see how much she detested the slithery things.

There are enough dinosaurs to overrun Jurassic Park, and every kind of slithery, crawly, beetly thing you can imagine, as well as some you can't.

They locked me in there, Harry, trapped me with all the spiders and beetles and slithery things.

He had gone downstairs to investigate, but had been scared back up because the slithery thing was following him up the stairs.

Frazer panics, and Pike reckons it's the slithery thing coming to get them.

Of course, they have little objection to splashing in the river on a hot summer afternoon, and wet, slithery things have always held a special fascination for boys.