| 1. | They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun--hark t. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | all the serpentine craft of thy caduceus, if ye take not tha. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | One of my companions touched my arm as we swept round the base of a hill and opened up the lofty, snow-covered peak of a mountain, which seemed, as we wound on our serpentine way, to be right before us. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 4. | Such a clearer such a sweetener such a softener such a delicious molifier After having my hands in it for only a few minutes, my fingers felt like eels, and began, as it were, to serpentine and spiralise. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 5. | The truncated conical crater summit of the diminutive volcano emitted a vertical and serpentine fume redolent of aromatic oriental incense. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |