Use coil in a sentence
Sentences ending with coil
- Dick was seized with a great passion for examining this curious chain, and, after some preliminary questions, was rash enough to lean towards her and put out his hand toward the neck that lay in the golden coil. [6]
More example sentences with the word coil in them
- The wrong to Venters--the stolen herd--these masks, threats, this coil in the dark! [13]
- He drew them up quickly, tied them together firmly, and let the great coil down. [11]
- The chief mate took his stand in the glare of a torch-basket, a coil of rope in his hand, and his men grouped about him. [5]
- He remembered the thrill he felt as the coil settled on his shoulders, and the sudden impulse which led him to fire as he did. [6]
- Macavoy, stripped to the waist, and carrying only a hatchet and a coil of rope tied round him, started away alone up the river. [11]
- Many and many the 'tween-watch have I passed in a coil of rope in the tops, a volume of the classics in my hand. [9]
- The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,--these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs. [6]
- He opened Le Petit Journal, Coil Blas, Galignani, and the New York Tom-Tom, one by one. [11]
- An electrical current passing through a coil of wire makes a magnet of a bar of iron lying within it, but not touching it. [6]
- Laocoon shut his mouth, which had been stretched open for about eighteen centuries, untwisted the last coil of the snake, and stepped down, a free man. [4]
- A hulking broad-shouldered miner, of middle age, with grizzled whiskers, and an unfriendly eye set in an unsociable face, rises, slips a coil of fuse upon his arm, gathers up some other personal properties, and departs without word or greeting to anybody. [5]
- Dick loosened his lasso, wound it up again, laid it like a pet snake in a coil at his saddle-bow, turned his horse, and rode slowly along towards the mansion-house. [6]
- I slipped my lasso from the horn of my saddle, and grasped the coil in my right hand. [5]
- And it infused into her soul something--it was cruel now to call it malice--which was still and watchful and dangerous, which waited its opportunity, and then shot like an arrow from its bow out of the coil of brooding premeditation. [6]
- I must choke in the infernal coil, but I'd like to have the sweetness of your pity in it--whatever it is. [8]
- He was rather, in despair, beginning to wind in again the coil of disaster which had spun out through the helpless fingers of Neckar, Calonne, Brienne and the rest, and was in the end to bind his own hands for the guillotine. [11]
- Really and truly, if I had not had the thing from Plotina I should have left it in the Phoenician's hands and not have made all this coil about it. [10]
- He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number; But leaving rule and pale forethought He shall aye climb For his rhyme. [6]
- At dawn she got up and went listlessly and sat down on the cable coil again. [5]
- The coil of evidence had drawn so close that extrication seemed impossible. [11]
- I would require every individual, be he high or low, to unfold a plain straightforward tale, or else coil it and sit on it and hold his peace. [5]
- Sometimes she would drag a mat and a pillow into one of the great empty rooms, and, wrapping herself in a shawl, coil up and go to sleep in a corner. [6]
- Next came a bunch of flowers, round whose stems a supple golden snake was twined, covered with rubies and diamonds and destined to coil itself round a woman's arm. [10]
- Nicolas Lavilette had begun to unwind the coil of fortune and ambition which his mother had long been engaged in winding. [11]
- Beaton could not be aware of all that dark coil of circumstance through which Dryfoos's present action evolved itself; the worst of this was buried in the secret of the old man's heart, a worm of perpetual torment. [8]
- Campbell was out arter him for a week with a coil of rope on his saddle. [9]
- Slowly she wound and wound the coil of golden hair about her neck, drawing it tighter, fold on fold, tighter and tighter. [11]
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