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Updated: May 28, 2025
A soft, bluish haze hung about the woods, a thick dew whitened the grass. She rose to look out of the window. "It is going to be a lovely day," she said, and coiled herself in a cushioned chair to watch the dawn advancing. All the world was hushed and silent yet.
It looks as though there was going to be something doing now." So intent had been the dog in its pursuit of Pepper that he did not see the snake until he had run onto it as it lay coiled upon the ground when, with a cry of alarm, the dog bounded into the air, clearing the snake by half a dozen feet.
Her face was as pure as a pearl; her glossy hair, falling loosely away from her white forehead, was simply coiled at the back of her small head, thus revealing its symmetrical proportions to the best advantages. Her great brown eyes glowed and scintillated, her nostrils dilated, her lips quivered with outraged pride and delicacy.
The main-sheet was lying coiled upon the deck under my hand, and I threw it over to him bodily. He fortunately caught it, and, exerting his utmost strength, succeeded in clambering on board again.
As I watched my lady lost; but in spite of that, she coiled her bare arm around the gold as if to hold the winnings back. "And indeed," I heard her say, with a pout, "I've a mind to prove your love! I've a mind not to pay!"
A box of Brett's Turkish cigarettes was lying temptingly open. He advanced. "Touch those, and I slay you," snapped Brett. "Your miserable life is not worth one of them." The man jumped as if he had been fired at. The barrister, coiled up like a boa-constrictor, glared at him in mock fury. "I beg pardon, sir," he blurted out, "I didn't know you was in." "Evidently.
We shall find a cure for every bite an antidote for every bane. Our new journey shall have its pleasures and advantages. Remember how of old we shivered as we slept, coiled up in the corner of our dark log-hut and smothered in skins, now we shall swing lightly in our netted hammocks under the gossamer leaves of the palm-tree, or the feathery frondage of the ferns.
But owing to the subsequent growth of the leaf, this filament became after a time quite slack, though still remaining firmly coiled round the stick. Hence it would appear that the chief use of the coiling, at least whilst the plant is young, is to support the pitcher with its load of secreted fluid. Summary on Leaf-climbers.
The next moment the hullabaloo of the cattle themselves made human voices unbearable. A flash of lightning showed the front of the herd as it charged up the slight rise to the mouth of the cut. Ahead of them, riding like mad and using his coiled rope to urge his pony, came a single rider. Another flash of lightning revealed his identity to the girls. "Walter! Oh, Walter!
He tried his best to amuse me by an account of a combat his father once witnessed in the depths of the forest between two huge boas, probably of different species. One lay coiled on the ground, the other had taken post on the branch of a tree. It ended by the former seizing the head of its opponent with its wide open jaws, sucking in a part of its huge body, gradually unwinding it from the tree.
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