Centipedes [noun]

Some who would face a mad bull coolly enough spring with disgust from a cockroach or a centipede.

There is the electric slug which used to be met with in gardens and roads about Hoinsey Rise; there is also an electric centipede.

I never see anything of racing people nowadays, or meet anyone except you who knows a horse from a centipede.

A huge round shot struck the "Centipede," passing through her diagonally, leaving death and wounds in its track.

With a single motion of the knob he sent their centipede-machine crashing out into the clear circle at the mighty cone's center.

Both gasped as one of the centipede-machines clashed against their own in passing, its Martian driver turning to stare after them.

One morning the master felt something creeping on his arm, which shaking from him proved to be a centipede.

Doctor, there's something crawling about inside my carcase, like a beastly centipede.

This form of construction has been used for some few years now under the name of "caterpillar" or "centipede" traction.

He found a centipede in the garden and pressed it into her hand on the way to school.