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    coil


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    1. And then he turns around and I see those rows of loathsome eyes just leering at me, and I just want to coil that sucker up and inject all my venom sacs straight into his face!


    2. and pushed his way through the verdure, making for the stairs, where he used a coil of


    3. Over those first grinding miles I fought against the bonds, twisting my arms and wrists against the tape, but all that I did was make the tape coil tighter and tighter so that it cut into my skin


    4. 'The coil is not working,' I said as I came up, 'I see a mozzie party on top of your


    5. It appears that their warp coil failed and exploded


    6. With the path before her made clear, every motion was restrained within her, condensed into a single coil waiting for its moment in time to explode


    7. The Fixer took out a coil of rope from the toolbox


    8. and carrying, with a bit of a struggle, the coil of rope


    9. This was followed by a large coil of rope and a big ball of bailer twin


    10. Between them, they carried a broad plank with a coil of rope lying on it, and in his free hand, the man also carried what appeared to be a toolbox

    11. There was a hollow thunk, and he dropped like a rock upon the coil of rope


    12. Junya headed back to the coil staircase and proceeded upward


    13. Junya made his way back to the coil staircase towards the VIP


    14. snow, a coil of rope over her shoulder, towards the place she had left Taka


    15. A long coil quickly made its way into the Major’s hands, one end tied around a rock


    16. A shiver runs through me, and I coil into his arms


    17. Then roll out the coil piece by piece into your


    18. In addition to weapons and shield and armour and extra shoes, each man carried a torch and a coil of rope


    19. inductor is a coil of wire, with a core of air (no core),


    20. This is basically a way of wir-not affect the inductance of a coil

    21. Q of the coil ing a circuit temporarily, for testing purposes or to (ratio of reactance to resistance) is governed by the try out an idea


    22. We know that when currents move around a coil of wire which is


    23. at the the collector of T1 is tuned by coil l2 and trimmer receiving site, one possible solution to overcome this


    24. and slip the coil out of the rod and use it


    25. Slip the coil out of the rod


    26. coil should be approximately 8 mm


    27. Upon material death, the soul escapes the bonds of the flesh and leaves behind this mortal coil


    28. For reincarnation to be the norm, it would be quite inconvenient for the next life to have to start the instant one shuffled off one’s previous life’s mortal coil


    29. He moved a magnet inside a copper coil, and electricity was produced


    30. The tall troll’s eyes flared with crimson radiance as he drew a huge coil of solder from his travel pack

    31. With his right hand he guided steaming beams of red light from his eyes to the locus where his coil unraveled onto the edge of the nickel and steel piece


    32. Maybe it was a giant super-conducting coil capacitor that somehow ran out of liquid helium coolant and over-heated when it got above the critical temperature


    33. As the coil of Ghazahg’s self-ensnaring body reached a critically small circumference, the sea swelled up inside the loop, packed with more pressure than the space would permit


    34. time they should have left this mortal coil


    35. Blood drenched the rails as the dying monster swayed far out, still gripping its victim, and sank into the river, coil by coil, lashing the water to bloody foam, in which man and reptile vanished together


    36. With a fleeting coil and release of steel muscles, he shot high in the air, and his straining arm hooked its fingers over the projection


    37. Then about the dark corner of the building he was approaching poked a hideous, wedge-shaped head, and after it flowed coil after coil of rippling, darkly glistening trunk


    38. When this happens, you would actually lose coil and eventually lose power in your swings


    39. Tom's brother, who'd shuffled off his own mortal coil back in the early


    40. ,” Johnny sighed and the tight coil of his shoulders, hands, and body began to unravel as he was stupefied about what to say to the sheriff, “I could sit here and lie to you, Sheriff, and tell you Paul O’Grady is a good man--the type of man you want your sister to be married to and that you would want as your own kin, but I’m not about to waste our time

    41. And they were gathering quite a large coil of vines indeed


    42. Joey fumbled in his coat pocket and produced a thick coil of cash


    43. “For another few stinking weeks trapped in this mortal coil?”


    44. We're as doomed as he is - I'd give us ten minutes more o' this mortal coil and then we're at the centre of this thing and dashed on the mistbed for sure


    45. They each had plastic helmets fitted with miner’s lamps, climbing equipment and a large coil of rope


    46. One had a coil of rope in his hand and


    47. ignition coil were never placed on the bottom side of the motor,


    48. Within she found a coil of pale, silver rope


    49. She lifted the coil to her lips and kissed it


    50. He picked up his long coil of rope and slung it over his shoulder













































    1. After eight hours none of the automatic scanners had detected the proton signature of a cooling coiled furball from the planet below


    2. You can imagine his surprise when the old woman produced a long length of coiled rope from under her voluminous purple overcoat


    3. and coiled and ravening


    4. A ceramic statue of a Minoan priestess with snakes coiled around her arms was in front of it, much more crudely done than it would have been in earlier times


    5. Spinning like a windmill in a hurricane, he launched the blade at his opponent, who was stoically still, his hands coiled around his blackened staff as he awaited its arrival


    6. tree, and a snake watching, coiled in its branches


    7. Nerissa decided to bind her hair in a very unflattering style, coiled in a severe ring round and round her head


    8. Though she gained some accuracy by standing on a coiled rope, Nerissa’s missiles had no effect


    9. coiled her hair, but her chiton was still a rag


    10. It burrowed through my barriers, until it found my core and coiled around my essence

    11. At her side, Reese coiled, his own hand dropping, preparing to follow through on whatever she started


    12. He had a contained, coiled energy about him, each movement that he took carefully studied, as if there was a danger in what he might do if his attention slipped


    13. Anticipation coiled more tightly, sweat springing to the surface of my skin only to be instantly washed away


    14. the tables on Sut,” I thought, as I coiled up Sut’s rope, “now I


    15. Mike kicked, and Truman’s supporting arm was gone from under him: he collapsed to the deck with an awful thud followed by a groan, then received another hard blow to his stomach that coiled him


    16. The words of Esphalon coiled in his mind like a snake, ready to leap out from his mouth


    17. He coiled up the safety line and stowed it in the proper receptacle


    18. The Pilgrim saw it too and sprung up like a coiled snake, his hand making a large slashing motion at the metal slab delivering a glancing blow and then rolling back down the slope of the mount, tumbling and coming to rest at what seemed like a safer distance from the metal slab


    19. Karl sat down calmly and held Roland’s head while his body twisted and coiled in the cramp attack that always came when the Dark had spoken through him


    20. There would have been many replicas of a sun disk with a serpent coiled around it in every procession

    21. He got to a staircase that coiled up towards two


    22. have lead him directly to the coiled staircase


    23. He coiled his arm out of her grip and took a step towards Laino who stood between Alaric and Ryato


    24. It had its long body coiled around a thick branch and it seemed to be talking to the woman


    25. She wore coiled around her neck the rich heavy necklace of amber beads which was a family heirloom


    26. coiled spires in the mist, and the endless moors of the Rilfsak


    27. It is a single, highly coiled tubule through


    28. Well whisk the eggs with a coiled wire beater


    29. —The coiled wire whisk, price 1d


    30. His mouth was open and he was coiled up ready to strike

    31. Inside she found a loaded revolver, a four-cell flashlight, and a coiled length of rope


    32. lifeless feeling that coiled around us both like a giant boa


    33. It was coiled, with its tongue darting in and out, as its rattle sounded


    34. Coiled in the bed of the wagon she'd seen nothing of the action through the few chinks unblocked by gear


    35. cal literature as a serpent coiled around the back part of


    36. I could feel a cold presence in the room, like a coiled sleeping snake


    37. statuette of a coiled serpent carved in red granite, engraved with


    38. The proverbial carpet that would serve us as transport the following day was lying coiled next to the gangway


    39. I handed it to Sadie, who stared at the careful red carving of the coiled


    40. Clarity coiled her legs while she grabbed the metal ladder with her hands

    41. One genie, a tall mulatto of greenish eyes, with a fuchsia turban coiled about the head, extracted a dagger that threw straight up to the heart of his contender, which I missed only for centimeters


    42. Bill Smith and his wife, a craggy, large-boned woman wearing beige hair coiled in plaited discs over her ears and a stone-splitting glint in her eye, arrived to check the display and the entries in the catalogue


    43. Never again will you have to stare at the double 20’ fence with the coiled razor wire all around


    44. The ring of dark runes on his forehead blazed with a red-hot glow and a tendril of smoke coiled up from his skin where the cursed tattoo was branded


    45. And then, as the horde writhed and coiled upon itself, Amalric's lancers, having cut through a cordon of horsemen encountered in the outer valley, swept around the extremity of the western ridge and smote the host in a steel-tipped wedge, splitting it asunder


    46. The bearded rowers grunted, heaved at the oars, while their muscles coiled and knotted, and sweat started out on their hides


    47. They rounded the mysterious bend that shut out the sight of the sea, and sunset found them forging steadily against the sluggish flow, avoiding sandbars where strange reptiles coiled


    48. who the Hell are YOU?…’ and brought her coiled leg upwards with tremendous force kicking him solidly in the crutch


    49. Opposite this, on a dais against the wall, up to which led broad curving steps, there stood a throne of copper, and when Conan saw what was coiled on this throne, he retreated hastily, lifting his scimitar


    50. There was an open trap there, and a man in a camel-hair robe who silently coiled the rope, not showing in any way the strain of hauling a full-grown woman up a forty-foot wall














































    1. BobbingTwo was clearly working on BigThree, prodding him with his snout and waving and coiling his eyes like flowers in a windstorm


    2. With his back to the wall, he sat on the ground coiling a nylon line between a big toe and the thumb of his left hand


    3. His laughter gone, an arrow at his cheek, Alec searched the tree line, his stomach coiling into knots with dread at what he would see


    4. ” said Fletcher, coiling up the remaining rope


    5. “Aargh!” I hit the brakes, and arch backwards coiling in deference to a sharp pain striking my spine


    6. My lips never leaving his, I rush my hands into his hair, my body coiling to fit in his arms


    7. sharply, then lifted the short line into the boat, coiling it neatly as he did so


    8. He was trapped, snared in a mass of coiling black worms


    9. A green mist poured from the mummy’s mouth, coiling over the floor in thick tendrils, hissing like twenty thousand snakes


    10. Inside my head, I heard a voice, slithering into one ear and coiling around my brain: I am the spirit of Delphi, speaker of the prophecies of Phoebus Apollo, slayer of the mighty Python

    11. At first I was too stunned to say anything, but as the mist retreated, coiling into a huge green serpent and slithering back into the mouth of the mummy, I cried, “Wait! What do you mean? What friend? What will I fail to save?”


    12. Seeing her at the obelisk, with that massive shadow coiling toward the


    13. He was coiling in and


    14. ―Half of reporting the news in knowing what to leave out,‖ he said, coiling up the wet rag


    15. As he impatiently scanned the grass for the reptile, the giant blacks braced their feet, grunted and heaved with their huge muscles coiling and straining under their ebon skin


    16. Traced the scars on his body, faint images of whip marks, knife wounds and others that made a pattern of a coiling Dragon


    17. They have darkness coiling inside of them, and are so


    18. The muscles coiling under that gray corpse-like skin were stringy and hard as steel wires, exceeding the strength of a man


    19. She could feel Henry’s body tense slightly and then release as if he were a snake coiling and then relaxing


    20. Jerry was there too, and he looked up from where he was coiling some rope by the mainmast

    21. gruesome coiling twisting faster


    22. Stan’s frustration was coiling, retracting within himself


    23. Coiling her legs like steel bands, she pushed off the edge of the tunnel “T” to extract some extra speed and knew this was going to be the hardest physical challenge she had ever faced


    24. snake slithers up the combined mecha; coiling its entire


    25. she fires burst shots into the coiling snake


    26. drive- time will reveal tempest blind trickster stories old and wise, coiling heretic foiled


    27. coiling and uncoiling with desire


    28. At the very top of the cliff there was a mound whose surface contained a vague, huge face that looked something like the human-cheetah face that Bright Hands had made of Mafdet, except there were no coiling cobras


    29. The hair was a tangle of coiling cobras


    30. The Serpents of Destruction were always beneath it, impatiently coiling and uncoiling in the darkness

    31. Today, the river tribes are all standing at the door of Chaos where the Serpents of Disorder are coiling and uncoiling, waiting to enter


    32. Yet I never recoiled from that power and violence because I knew they were needed to protect Ma’at from the Serpents of Disorder who were always coiling and uncoiling, threatening to drag all of heaven and earth into eternal darkness


    33. Yet, no matter how dark it became, I never doubted it was my fate to restore the spiritual Balance of the river delta tribes, just as I never doubted that the Serpents of Disorder were always coiling and uncoiling in the eternal darkness beneath them


    34. That are always coiling and uncoiling


    35. She saved us from the Serpents of Disorder that were coiling and uncoiling beneath us, waiting to pull us down


    36. "Each one is different, but some examples of these gifts are gifts of discernment, or the gift of coiling


    37. In retaliation, the rage coiling through him snapped out


    38. these sacred pillars with serpents coiling around them


    39. Loofah jerked his hand back as the receiver reared into the air above the box and, balancing on its coiling ringed cable, twisted round to face him


    40. With her right hand she caressed the steering wheel, which became pliable in her grip, a smooth hoop of coiling firmness

    41. She had now wrapped her thighs around the skin-like plastic moulding of the steering column, and to his consternation Loofah noticed that wires and cable ties appeared to growing out of the column and were coiling, like the vigorous tendrils of some tropical creeper, around her legs


    42. Therein that small clearing I was completely surrounded by a coiling cordon


    43. snakes coiling crawling and slithering over my legs and torso


    44. Rincewind, coiling himself like a spring, gave a standing jump and grasped a beam, swinging himself up into the relative safety of the roof with a strength that amazed him


    45. "Yes, yes, Conseil! But instead of coiling from right to left, this


    46. Now then, nature has generally obeyed this law in coiling her shells


    47. It floats, it flows about her starborn flesh and loose it streams, emerald, sapphire, mauve and heliotrope, sustained on currents of the cold interstellar wind, winding, coiling, simply swirling, writhing in the skies a mysterious writing till, after a myriad metamorphoses of symbol, it blazes, Alpha, a ruby and triangled sign upon the forehead of Taurus


    48. From the banks of Lake Carnegie, the boys, their oars, and the Husky Clipper looked like a single thing, gracefully and powerfully coiling and uncoiling itself, propelling itself forward over the surface of the water


    49. On came the blue lines, relentlessly, like a monster serpent, coiling, striking venomously, drawing its injured lengths back, but always striking again


    50. Many coiling arms seized the doors on either side, and with horrible strength, swung them round






















    1. Serpent had one mate with whom he shared his life, finding himself entwined in her coils


    2. It wasn't just the injector, it was the containment coils around it and their housing, the detector windings, the throb piping


    3. into its coils, Son could place the infant which he held in his other hand on


    4. crushed in the coils of a great serpent


    5. When the serpent surrounded Son with its coils Son struck with the sword,


    6. he sat surrounded by coils of brass,


    7. She listens amid coils and curls of hair


    8. " He pointed to a chamber bristling with probes and encased in superconducting coils


    9. Since we can't bring the positioning coils on the attractor into cal, we could drop that again


    10. The main trunks were at least thirty feet thick, the lumps in the bark on the coils of it’s roots were big enough to sit on

    11. Coils of blue-tinged smoke drifted from Adros’ staff


    12. ‘Well, there was Mystery,’ the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, ‘–Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling–the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: HE taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils


    13. They used two huge half-gigawatt fusion reactors, generating a massive electric current to feed through the coils of its four jet ion-drive


    14. I sighted on his chest and watched the fat rolls move like the coils of a python as I watched him push his gun out it reminded me of Lt Cole so I shot him through the chest


    15. We had to carry the lot all the wood to be used props, timbers, duckboards, and then there were the sandbags and the Bain of my life the coils of barbed wire


    16. It was terrible stuff to carry and got caught all over the place you carried it in coils that weighed about a hundred weight this was slung on a pole carried between two blokes


    17. The graviton collection coils had collapsed and


    18. sucked in along with everything else when the graviton collection coils collapsed into a


    19. “I’ve seen a ship swallowed by the singularity formed after the collapse of its coils,” he said


    20. The mass had a direct effect on the coils

    21. to pump up the coils


    22. continuity fields within the graviton collection coils of the Pearson FTL


    23. He holds it up as it coils around his hand, alive


    24. 'Well, there was Mystery,' the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, '--Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling--the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: He taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils


    25. She knew, for example, that the coils of copper plumbing had never been installed, but sold, as had the new furnace, the profits split with a city building inspector


    26. She was bareheaded and her golden hair--hair of a warm gold, "molasses taffy" colour as Di Blythe had said--was pinned in sleek, close coils over her head; she had large, tranquil, blue eyes that always seemed full of friendliness, a high white forehead and a finely shaped face


    27. The lead men in Buey Dan's sector had already penetrated the first coils of barbed wire and had placed their command-detonated Bangalore tor�pedoes


    28. Kirk pointed out the glass coils around the laser barrels and the complex system of cables that fed them


    29. Therefore coils wound with components can be reused afterwards


    30. There were massive coils mounted under the ceiling on slabs of marble, switches with sturdy handles on the wall, knobs to turn and sliders to slide, but no instructions as to their purpose

    31. One radio manufacturer had to improvise the tuning system by dipping ferrite cores into coils instead of using conventional tuning capacitors which were difficult to manufacture


    32. in the primary and secondary coils (Np and NS)


    33. She raced down the hill, tripping over bronze coils and golden plates


    34. In the Duat, the room was fil ed with the writhing coils of a giant red


    35. The demons were connected by red coils of energy that


    36. At the base of the pyramid, snaky coils encircled Walt


    37. Her leg coils back, you get a glimpse of her heel coming toward your head


    38. out over the side of his abdomen, running in glistening, lubricated coils


    39. This is achieved by means of cooling coils filled with a refrigerant, liquid ammonia pumped through tubes located in the mixture inside the reaction vessel


    40. The process takes place in a steel pressure vessel and the cooling coils keep the reaction temperature at about forty degrees centigrade

    41. The final slide in this series was of the innards of the reaction vessel showing the cooling coils at the centre of the sphere


    42. As I said earlier the process is exothermic with the reaction temperature controlled using cooling coils


    43. As he talked, he pointed to the image of the chemical process on the screen underlining each as he said its name, “The three inputs to the reaction vessel therefore are…butadiene in…peroxide in…to mix and react, and liquid ammonia in, but kept within the cooling coils, so not a reactant, right?” There were a few low grunts from the chemists that let him know that at least they were following him


    44. What had in fact happened was that there had been a pinhole rupture in the coolant coils inside the reactor, and liquid ammonia was spilling into the reaction vessel


    45. in the coils of this worldly life, which is infested with death,


    46. The liquefied ammonia thundered along the inside of the corroded pipe work towards the innards of the reaction vessel, towards coils by now superheated to well above normal operating tolerance


    47. When the cold ammonia hit the hot coils the liquid instantly vaporised into a high pressure gas


    48. In a split second the coils burst open, spraying gallons of ammonia into the boiling mass of reacting chemicals, suddenly and dramatically increasing the already critical pressure inside the dome


    49. In the dim twilight his gaze sought that grim copper throne; yes, the scaly brute was still there, filling the throne with its loathsome coils


    50. The wedge-shaped head had lifted from its coils and thrust out toward her on a yard of shining neck














































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    Synonyms for "coil"

    coil helix spiral volute whorl curl curlicue gyre ringlet roll scroll loop hand-build handbuild gyrate turn wind twist entwine convolute corkscrew convolution

    "coil" definitions

    a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops


    a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)


    a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine


    a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb


    tubing that is wound in a spiral


    reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit


    to wind or move in a spiral course


    make without a potter's wheel


    wind around something in coils or loops