1 An obliging thrush hopped across the lawn; a coil of pinkish rubber twisted in its beak.
2 But in the coil of her confusion, she was determined to deliver her message to the fellow.
3 He already showed that thought is a disease of flesh, and indirectly bore evidence that ideal physical beauty is incompatible with emotional development and a full recognition of the coil of things.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face 4 At the next haul the weight was not heavy, and it was discovered that they had only secured a coil of the rope detached from the bucket.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 5 He made fast the pail to the long coil of rope, put it over the wheel, and allowed it to descend by letting the rope slip through his hands.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 6 I had, as you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a great coil at the bottom of my trunk.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES 7 I did so, and driven by the draught a coil of gray smoke swirled down the corridor, while the dry straw crackled and flamed.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER 8 Then I got a big pebble from the river, and came and hammered till I had flattened a coil in the decorations, and the verdigris came off in powdery flakes.
9 Even Gerald had aroused a little and stumped off across the furrowed fields, one hand on Pork's arm and a coil of rope in the other.
10 The outer air, penned between high buildings, brought no freshness through the window; steam-heat was beginning to sing in a coil of dingy pipes, and a smell of cooking penetrated the crack of the door.
11 During the night-watches some cynical old sailors will crawl into them and coil themselves away there for a nap.
12 A coil of new tow-line was then unwound, and some fathoms of it taken to the windlass, and stretched to a great tension.
13 He twitched and began to coil slowly.
14 She adjusted it, sticking the hat pin through the heavy coil of hair with some deliberation.
15 Presently some chance whim came to the pestering blur, and it began to coil heavily away.