Prepare to strike, snake-style

Usage examples of coil.

But they had come in on the space drive, and had gotten fairly close before the gravitational field had drained the power from the main coil, and it was not until the space field had broken that they had started to accelerate toward the star.

There a snake was poised, not coiled, not menacing to strike, simply waiting, with round head alift and trembling tongue.

Bending over Shadamehr, Alise looked into his face, and fear coiled around her heart, squeezed it so that she very nearly stopped breathing.

Springs, alembics, coils of copper tubing, buckled sheets of metal, gear systems both rack-and-pinion and epicyclic, pendulums, levers, cams, cranks, differentials, bearings, pulleys, assorted tools, and stone jars containing alkahest and corrosive substances crowded every horizontal surface.

In the mirror Ilna saw what the men saw: an ammonite whose coiled shell filled the room.

The molds and deckles are neatly stacked, coils of armature wire sit untouched by the table.

We had descended a coiling staircase of carven alabaster and were about to enter a long, high-roofed corridor lined with an honor guard of bejeweled and beplumed Laonese chivalry, when I stopped short, my gaze caught by a most imposing monument.

Under the picture, a lock of tightly coiled blond hair was secured beneath a beveled crystal.

He held a palm-size machine with a coil of wire looping from it out in front of him, the debugger bleeping every ten seconds.

I yanked the rest of the line over the wall, and hastened across the Boody grounds, coiling it as I went, the gun a hard lump between belt and belly.

Derek Burdon found her fully dressed, her hair in neatly plaited coils behind and netted fringe in front.

He bent the flexible coil so that it passed into a large calabash sawed in half, and out, through a watertight joint, after a dozen turns.

The lid of the kettle was of heavy cast iron, and fitted tightly, but McCoy now plastered it about with clay before he filled his sawn calabash with water and stood a pewter half-pint on a rock, where it would catch the drip from the coil.

Bonden, with a coil of one-inch line over his shoulder, and by Calamy, who was obviously giving advice, begging them to take care, to watch where he was putting his feet, and not to look down.

After a lot of jiggling, a fuzzy dot centered itself, grew in size, and sharpened into the image of a feathery coil of light with a golden yolk at the center.