Coiled

Examples

• His old dog, Pilot, lay on one side, removed out of the way, and coiled up as if afraid of being inadvertently trodden upon. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In the complete obscurity, Birkin found a comparatively sheltered nook, where a great rope was coiled up. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• At night, naked and scarcely pro tected from the wind and rain of this tempestuous c limate, they slept on the wet ground coiled up like animals. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The strength of a motor may be increased by replacing the singly coiled armature by one closely wound on an iron core; in some armatures there are thousands of turns of wire. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Plante coiled up his sheets into a very handy cell like a little roll of carpet or pastry; but the trouble was that the battery took a long time to form. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If we represent a boiler by _B_, a radiator by the coiled tube, and a safety tank by _C_, we shall have a very fair illustration of the principle of a hot-water heating system. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• George went away then with the bouquet; but when he gave it to the owner, there lay a note, coiled like a snake among the flowers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In it is coiled the mainspring--a strip of steel about twenty-three inches long, which is carefully tempered to insure elasticity and pull. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Near the middle of the book he found his old enemy, Sabor, the lioness, and further on, coiled Histah, the snake. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The rope came in tight and strained; and ring after ring was coiled upon the barrel of the windlass, and all eyes were fastened on the pit. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Tarzan coiled his rope. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• An electro-magnet is a piece of iron temporarily converted into a magnet by means of a current of electricity sent through a wire which is coiled around it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• First a wire, somewhat finer than that which was to be used for the pin, was coiled around a spit on a lathe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In order that the steam which passes through the coiled tube may be quickly cooled and condensed, cold water is made to circulate around the coil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They had shrunk past homeless people, lying coiled up in nooks. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In one narrow street (but none of them are wide) I saw three dogs lying coiled up, about a foot or two apart. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We saw in Section 296 that a coiled wire through which current was flowing would attract iron filings at the two ends of the helix. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• His rope he now held coiled in his right hand; he was almost ready for the kill. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The coiled pipe C is in the nature of a flattened tube, as shown in the enlarged cross section, and is enclosed in a case. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Around many a dusky neck hung curiously coiled strands of wire, while several were further ornamented by huge nose rings. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Edited by Adrian