And as they left I saw a dim, crawling shape move closer, throw out a long, whiplike tentacle, and wrap the body in a hungry embrace.
"Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930"
Various
Down from the Keeper writhed and flicked a tangle of tentacles; serpentine, whiplike.
"The Metal Monster"
A. Merritt
Then the octagonal symbols stirred, unfolded like buds- They were the nests of the Keeper's tentacles, and out from them the whiplike tendrils uncoiled, shot out and writhed toward us.
"The Metal Monster"
A. Merritt