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A spray of centipedal ivy creeps From death to birth, and reaches to her name; With kisslike touch its tender leaflets feel The letter’s edge,—I scarce can think it chance.

From My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale by Morley, Henry

These amorphous creatures glided about in the seas, and vast sea-worms, or centipedal asps, the parents of modern krakens and sea-serpents, doubtless, accompanied them.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various

No, sir, it will not pass; and your uncertainty in regard to the run of the line would only be extended were the line centipedal.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George