They drifted inward, and soon the waving tops of the first filaments came into view, reaching lazily toward them, long quasi-organic tentacles that seemed to hang, moving swiftly.

Then its glowing bars of magic streamed at the slumbrous form of the Lady Silvertree like the boldly reaching tentacles of the great glistening sea-beasts who were wont to snatch and drag sailors and their ships down beneath the waves.

Despite himself the science officer again had visions of reaching tentacles.

As it dawned upon me first, it presented a sort of metallic spider with five jointed, agile legs, and with an extraordinary number of jointed levers, bars, and reaching and clutching tentacles about its body.

Given its freedom, it would slowly crush the back-porch posts and, when the roof had collapsed, would strangle it, meanwhile reaching tentacles into the house to crush refrigerators, velocipedes, television sets, beds, bathtubs and overnight guests.

Some reached bone-white tentacles up; others were balls of pastel hues.

As the three hefted their blades and eyed reaching tentacles, they heard the deep, bubbling voice of one tentacled monster ask, "Argast, what's that?"

He looked back at the jungle floor, and the creepers that spread reaching tentacles over the white carpet of bones.