Runs aground

Usage examples of strands.

Great strands floated away in tangles like immense crawlers, with attenuated legs, toward the far edge of the pool and then were drawn out of sight.

Glistening strands and bits whirled from his fingertips, disappearing in brief sparks as they left the light beams.

K'vin looked below and saw the unmistakable arrow of golden bodies in their low-level position, the flame-throwers which the queen riders used spouting here and there as they disintegrated stray strands escaping the higher ranks.

It would link several infinitesimal strands already embedded in her cerebrum.

He grinned to himself, stretching and tossing back strands of white-blond hair.

In the navigation tank, strands of ion emission joined hundreds more in a skein around the black sphere, like webs tying up a fly.

And he was strangely attracted by other inexpli cable strands, comforting wisps of thought, enticing him to linger.

Sometimes those we tangle with the strands escape before they can be secured.

With a twist of his wrists, his palms turned over and strands shot out in all directions.

It could have been Yassim's people, or maybe the new Talent who supplied Flimflam with strands, but every one of them was disabled.

She cocked her head up at him, hauling the strands of dark hair off her face, her dark eyes sparkling with, it seemed to Sascha, a private amusement that, for all his telepathic skill, he could not penetrate.

Occasionally, loose strands would drift past them, the fatter, longer ones deftly caught and netted by the men.

So they were ill prepared when disaster struck, eight years later, in the form of a menace from space—a mindless organism that fell from the sky in thin strands, consuming all organic matter in its way.

Her beautiful rich laugh, a tone below Menolly's, her face often hidden by the strands of dark hair which kept escaping thong and clip.

She glanced up at her mate, noticing that even more silver strands had appeared in F'lar's crisp black hair.