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- She was coiled up in a corner of the sofa, her eyes sparkling with admiration of his indignation and force. [4]
- The warmth of the dry hay was comforting, and after caring for my wounds, which I found were but scratches, I had somewhat to eat from my knapsack, drank up two eggs, and then coiled myself for sleep. [11]
- Having unwound the string that tied the band on one leg, he carefully coiled it up and immediately set to work on the other leg, glancing up at Pierre. [2]
- In one narrow street (but none of them are wide) I saw three dogs lying coiled up, about a foot or two apart. [5]
- Her fingers still stitched, her head was bent and I could not see her face,--only the knot of her hair coiled with an art that struck me suddenly. [9]
- At an early stage of development the tail was closely coiled round the head of the larva. [1]
- The tightly coiled spring was released, the clock began to whirr and the chimes to play. [2]
- Mr. Motley had spoken in one of his histories of "a set of venomous familiars who glided through every chamber and coiled themselves at every fireside. [6]
- Trees, in stretches of miles; beeches, oaks, most numerous;--many of them hung with moss, looking like bearded Druids; some coiled in the clasp of huge, dark-stemmed grape-vines. [6]
- Said I to myself, as I coiled my lariat and hung it on my saddle-horn, and sat there drunk with glory, "The victory is perfect--no other will venture against me--knight-errantry is dead. [5]
- The sacred snakes lay coiled in a cage by the altar; they were believed to have the power of restoring themselves, and this was regarded as a promise to the sick that they should cast off their disease as a serpent casts its skin. [10]
- This would have interested the citizens but it was too many on one to amount to anything as a fight, and so they commanded the peace and the foreign dog coiled his tail and took sanctuary under the wagon. [5]
- Paint Beauty with her foot upon a skull and a dragon coiled around her. [6]
- Inch by inch, foot by foot it grew, until at last it lay coiled in her lap like a golden serpent, with a kind of tension which gave it life, such as Medusa's hair must have known as the serpent-life entered into it. [11]
- Then Venters's eye descried a very thin, very long green snake coiled round a sapling. [13]
- Then the light coiled round its base, between it and its pedestal, thus making it appear to hover above the hill-point, or, planet-like, to be just settling on it. [11]
- The net of circumstances seemed to have coiled inextricably round him. [11]
- It was no case of hero-worship, to be sure, nor for tragedy; but then what a satisfaction it must be to sweet Lady Macbeth, coiled up on her sofa, to feel that the thane of Cawdor has some nerve! [4]
- Silently the long blue files wound into position behind the earth barriers which hid them from the enemy, coiled and ready to strike when the towering redoubt on the Jackson road should rise heavenwards. [9]
- His welcome was an angry whir, and a huge yellow rattler lay coiled within, his head reared to strike. [9]
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