But the girl did not look up;--she was winding a gold chain about her wrist, and then uncoiling it, as if in a kind of reverie.
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!
But here there seems to be some hiatus in the thought, for how doesuncoiling the snake counteract its poison?
The curious directions for uncoiling the snake have parallels in European folk medicine.
In one of the Gahuni formulas for treating snake bites (page 351) the operator is told to rub in a direction contrary to that in which the snake coils itself, because “this is just the same as uncoiling it.
Ticker-tape began to shoot downward in long uncoiling snakes to catch in flagpoles and window-ledges in strange festoons.
The door flew open, and a motley throng appeared--men and women in file, two and two holding each other by the arm and stamping their heels on the ground to mark time, advanced into the studio like a snake uncoiling itself.
He saw the drums spin round futilely for a moment or two, and then the Spaniard, who crouched behind one of them, howled, as a foot of the uncoilingwire came back to his hands.
Its ternate character is shown even in theuncoiling of the fronds, the three round balls suggesting the sign of the pawnbroker.
An ebony-hued snake, his sides dotted with red spots, was slowly and solemnly uncoiling his circles upon the stones.
Suddenly he saw the profile of the dead woman with one eye turned toward him, graciously and malignly, just as the "eye of the morning" must have looked at its mistress while uncoiling her mysterious dances in her Asiatic dwelling.
The process of uncoilinginto the small boats commenced at half-past two, and the scene at this period was grand and exciting in the highest degree.
The cable was uncoiling its mighty folds to a length sufficient to span the Atlantic, and at last there was hope of victory.
Laughter, shouts, a leap of voices, blazing lights, perspiring waiters, faces and hats thrusting vivid stencils through the uncoiling tinsel of tobacco smoke.
The music of the clarinet becomes like crazily uncoiling whips.
But while the mainspring, when fully wound, turns the fusee by uncoiling the string from the smallest part of the fusee, it gets the advantage of the larger radius as its energy becomes lessened.
The employment of them caused trouble to early experimenters on account of the decrease in power which necessarily accompanies the uncoiling of a wound-up spring.
The liner had hardly way on her; the water was but uncoiling noiselessly alongside.
Sara heard them exchange a word occasionally, but for the most part they simply stood about, fanning themselves and coiling and uncoiling their springs.
So she ran forward and cried to the excited populace (who were spinning this way and that, wildly coiling and uncoiling their springs and crying, "What in butter shall we do?
Sara was a little taken aback, but he looked so conceited, as he stood there coiling and uncoiling his watch-spring tongue, that she suddenly felt herself growing quite provoked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uncoiling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
