...I therefore entered, and coiling up the cord, sat uponit very melancholy, and thinking how I should most convenientlyget down to the bottom, having nobody to guide or support me...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...What had seemed to be a periwig at a little distance was now revealed for the man's own lustrous coiling black hair...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...Tarzan was coiling his rope the while he lectured Taug on the futilityof pitting his poor powers, physical and intellectual, against those ofhis betters...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Jungle Tales of Tarzan」
...The quarry merely travels the more quickly on its back, without coiling itself into a defensive posture...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
... In the scuffle, the Scolia, curved into a bow, is sometimes seized by the vice-like grip of the Cetonia-grub, which is violently coiling and uncoiling...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
... The larger seem even to have forgotten what they knew so well in their youth: the defensive art of coiling themselves up...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...It is not venomous, but is possessedof enormous strength which it shows by coiling itself roundthe object of its attack and crushing it into a shapeless mass...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...Thus they may nottaste hedgehog, “as it is feared that this animal, from itspropensity of coiling up into a ball when alarmed, will impart atimid shrinking disposition to those who partake of it...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Traces of theoriginal coiling are readily observable on the sides of this vessel...
Jesse Walter Fewkes 「Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895」
...The Gothic pilasters are filled with the samekind of coiling and spiral leaves and ribbons thatare used in 1 E...
John W. Bradley 「Illuminated Manuscripts」
...Now, if it is desired tobegin a design, the plain wrapping thread is dropped and a coloredfillet is inserted and the coiling continues...
William H. Holmes 「A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament」
...Again, the ancient potter, who was in the habit of modeling his wareswithin baskets, seems to have conceived the idea of building hisvessels by coiling just as he built his baskets...
William H. Holmes 「A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament」
...The coiling, slashing serpent-forms had fastened to the doomed ship...
Various 「Astounding Stories, May, 1931」
...Little by little the terrific whipping and coiling of the tentaclesquieted down...
Various 「Astounding Stories, February, 1931」
...Not far away, and not far beneath him, a ghostly violet haze wasspreading through the fog, and the fog itself was coiling back from ituntil it formed a dense white wall...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930」
...McGuire felt his companion’s holdloosen as he was lifted from theground; there were other arms flailingabout him—living, coiling things thatseemed to fight one with another forthis prize...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930」
...A snaky rope went coiling down into the lower ship’s cockpit...
William Fitzgerald Jenkins 「The Fifth-Dimension Tube」
...The cloud ofsmoke from the Altar is represented by the bright coiling wreaths of theMilky Way, and here in the midst of that cloud is set the Bow—the bowof Sagittarius, the Archer...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
...All the time the Snake was held in the bird'sbeak, writhing and coiling in agony; for he knew that the Kookooburrahad won the battle...
Ethel C. Pedley 「Dot and the Kangaroo」
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