I entered into discourse with the man about Welsh poetry, and repeated the famous prophecy of Taliesin about the Coiling Serpent.
But you still consider them,” said I, “the seed of Y Sarfes cadwynog, the coiling serpent.
O, great was the rejoicing for a few days at Llangollen for the reported triumph; and the share of the Welsh in that triumph reconciled for a time the descendants of the Ancient Britons to the seed of the coiling serpent.
The instant this had been accomplished, Tad drew in his with one hand, coiling it at the pony's side.
The lad was coiling his rope, preparing to descend when a low chuckle caused him to pause in sudden surprise.
The barraca lay just around the bend where the river broke in some small rapids and then saved itself in miles of smoothly coiling eddies for the grand smother of the Ratama.
Not far, that was certain, and the Leccos watched this shifting, coiling passage in a silent gravity that they had shown nowhere else on the river.
Gray's paper, "Note on the Coilingof the Tendrils of Plants.
I entered into discourse with the man about Welsh poetry and repeated the famous prophecy of Taliesin about the Coiling Serpent.
Before she had returned Sam came in with three adders, one briskly coilingand uncoiling in the cleft of the stick, and the other two hanging dead across it.
In tarring the yarn, it is found favourable to the fairness of the strip, to allow it to pass around or under a reel or roller in the bottom of the kettle while boiling, instead of coiling the yarn in by hand.
As long as the stretching and twisting go on, the threads form an obtuse angle with the spindles, and thereby slide continually over their smooth rounded tips during their revolution, without the possibility of coiling upon them.
There is a sliding piece at F, called the heck box, which rises and falls by the coiling and uncoiling of the cord G, round the central shaft of the reef H.
In the figure we see the feed-cloth, the scutching barrel, the squirrel suction, and spreading cage, and the rollers for coiling up the lap.
She was the same in one sense as on that first day when he had seen her coiling and uncoiling her golden chain; yet how different in every aspect which revealed her state of mind and emotion!
A young ordinary seaman--an Irish lad named Driscoll--was coiling a rope over one of the belaying-pins around the mainmast.
We looked round: the waves bear towards the rocks two coiling snakes, whose swelling breasts, like tall ships, drive the water in foam along their sides.
Turk dragon; which, was coiling round his frontier, and spitting fire at an intolerable rate.
The decks were white and clean, the sweepers had just laid by their brooms, and the men were busy coiling down the ropes.
Jack was standing on a rope which a seaman was coiling down; the man touched his hat and requested he would be so kind as to take his foot off.
For a longtime Hoang studied the Lifeboat Station narrowly, while he made a great show ofcoiling a length of rope.
Again that expression of white rage crept over his face, and a smile rose up to his mouth, coiling around it like a viper.
Disturbed by Lina's approach, he was that instant coiling itself up for a spring.
To right and left loomed grim and mysterious chasms, and masses of mist, eddying and coiling like snakes, were creeping thither along the furrows of the neighbouring cliffs, as though sentient and fearful of the approach of day.
He is a gambler; you can see as much at once from that immense gold chain coiling across his skyblue waistcoat.
Then there was a twisting, coiling tumult of incandescent gases, which were snatched away by nothingness and ceased to be.
Its landing-rockets spouted white-hot flame and fumes more thick and coiling than even the smoke of the bombs.
My life is in your hands, sir; pray, do not betray me," Geoffrey said rapidly as he went on coiling down the rope.
The tail-piece represents a serpent of pale green hue coiling and rearing across the page.
And coiling slowly about him, and laughing at him, And throwing him pennies, we bear away A mournful echo of other times and places, And follow a dream .
At one step she could move from love to silence, Feel myriad darkness coiling round.
Each gleaming point of light is like a seed Dilating swiftly to coiling fires.
We open our eyes and stare at thecoiling darkness, And enter our dreams again.
Embossed on the medallion was a mounted knight driving his lance into a coiling bat-winged dragon baring huge fangs in rage.
Even as he was coiling up the rest of the rope, the beast gave a howl of fury and with a tremendous leap was halfway up the wall.
All the fish left us instanter, attracted doubtless by the blood of their mutilated fellow; so, sulkily coiling up the line, I came in.
I was coiling up the gear in the waist when she lurched heavily to windward, just as a green mass of water lifted itself like a hill on that side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coiling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
