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After eight hours none of the automatic scanners had detected the proton signature of a cooling coiled furball from the planet below
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You can imagine his surprise when the old woman produced a long length of coiled rope from under her voluminous purple overcoat
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and coiled and ravening
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A ceramic statue of a Minoan priestess with snakes coiled around her arms was in front of it, much more crudely done than it would have been in earlier times
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Spinning like a windmill in a hurricane, he launched the blade at his opponent, who was stoically still, his hands coiled around his blackened staff as he awaited its arrival
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tree, and a snake watching, coiled in its branches
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Nerissa decided to bind her hair in a very unflattering style, coiled in a severe ring round and round her head
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Though she gained some accuracy by standing on a coiled rope, Nerissa’s missiles had no effect
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coiled her hair, but her chiton was still a rag
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It burrowed through my barriers, until it found my core and coiled around my essence
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At her side, Reese coiled, his own hand dropping, preparing to follow through on whatever she started
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He had a contained, coiled energy about him, each movement that he took carefully studied, as if there was a danger in what he might do if his attention slipped
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Anticipation coiled more tightly, sweat springing to the surface of my skin only to be instantly washed away
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the tables on Sut,” I thought, as I coiled up Sut’s rope, “now I
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Mike kicked, and Truman’s supporting arm was gone from under him: he collapsed to the deck with an awful thud followed by a groan, then received another hard blow to his stomach that coiled him
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The words of Esphalon coiled in his mind like a snake, ready to leap out from his mouth
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He coiled up the safety line and stowed it in the proper receptacle
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The Pilgrim saw it too and sprung up like a coiled snake, his hand making a large slashing motion at the metal slab delivering a glancing blow and then rolling back down the slope of the mount, tumbling and coming to rest at what seemed like a safer distance from the metal slab
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Karl sat down calmly and held Roland’s head while his body twisted and coiled in the cramp attack that always came when the Dark had spoken through him
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There would have been many replicas of a sun disk with a serpent coiled around it in every procession
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He got to a staircase that coiled up towards two
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have lead him directly to the coiled staircase
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He coiled his arm out of her grip and took a step towards Laino who stood between Alaric and Ryato
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It had its long body coiled around a thick branch and it seemed to be talking to the woman
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She wore coiled around her neck the rich heavy necklace of amber beads which was a family heirloom
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coiled spires in the mist, and the endless moors of the Rilfsak
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It is a single, highly coiled tubule through
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Well whisk the eggs with a coiled wire beater
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—The coiled wire whisk, price 1d
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His mouth was open and he was coiled up ready to strike
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Inside she found a loaded revolver, a four-cell flashlight, and a coiled length of rope
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lifeless feeling that coiled around us both like a giant boa
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It was coiled, with its tongue darting in and out, as its rattle sounded
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Coiled in the bed of the wagon she'd seen nothing of the action through the few chinks unblocked by gear
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cal literature as a serpent coiled around the back part of
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I could feel a cold presence in the room, like a coiled sleeping snake
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statuette of a coiled serpent carved in red granite, engraved with
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The proverbial carpet that would serve us as transport the following day was lying coiled next to the gangway
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I handed it to Sadie, who stared at the careful red carving of the coiled
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Clarity coiled her legs while she grabbed the metal ladder with her hands
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One genie, a tall mulatto of greenish eyes, with a fuchsia turban coiled about the head, extracted a dagger that threw straight up to the heart of his contender, which I missed only for centimeters
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Bill Smith and his wife, a craggy, large-boned woman wearing beige hair coiled in plaited discs over her ears and a stone-splitting glint in her eye, arrived to check the display and the entries in the catalogue
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Never again will you have to stare at the double 20’ fence with the coiled razor wire all around
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The ring of dark runes on his forehead blazed with a red-hot glow and a tendril of smoke coiled up from his skin where the cursed tattoo was branded
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And then, as the horde writhed and coiled upon itself, Amalric's lancers, having cut through a cordon of horsemen encountered in the outer valley, swept around the extremity of the western ridge and smote the host in a steel-tipped wedge, splitting it asunder
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The bearded rowers grunted, heaved at the oars, while their muscles coiled and knotted, and sweat started out on their hides
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They rounded the mysterious bend that shut out the sight of the sea, and sunset found them forging steadily against the sluggish flow, avoiding sandbars where strange reptiles coiled
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who the Hell are YOU?…’ and brought her coiled leg upwards with tremendous force kicking him solidly in the crutch
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Opposite this, on a dais against the wall, up to which led broad curving steps, there stood a throne of copper, and when Conan saw what was coiled on this throne, he retreated hastily, lifting his scimitar
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There was an open trap there, and a man in a camel-hair robe who silently coiled the rope, not showing in any way the strain of hauling a full-grown woman up a forty-foot wall
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He held a living serpent in his naked hand, and already it had coiled about his wrist and its wicked wedge-shaped head darted at his muscular arm
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Four headless golden serpents still coiled about the altar, but no alien life now animated the dully gleaming metal
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Noiselessly Conan coiled his long legs under him; his naked sword was in his right hand, and when he struck it was as suddenly and murderously as a tiger lunging out of the dark
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Already the coiled muscles of his thighs were beginning to flex for a spring, when Valeria cried out
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It was of a metal like copper, and was made in the form of a scaled serpent, coiled in three loops, with its tail in its mouth
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A quick glance among the shadows convinced him that the man was alone, and he expanded his great chest slightly, digging his toes into the turf, as his thews coiled tensely
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Conan had been told dark tales of hidden temples where intense smoke drifted up incessantly from black altars where kidnapped humans were sacrificed before a great coiled serpent, whose fearsome head swayed for ever in the haunted shadows
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In the midst of the great hall stood a black stone altar, massive, somber, without carvings or ornament, and upon it coiled one of the great sacred serpents, its iridescent scales shimmering in the lamplight
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His body became rigid and coiled tight as a Swiss watch spring
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Sharon sees the strange radio with its microphone on its coiled lead and the walkie talkie type radio lying on the passenger’s seat
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Inside was a petrol-driven generator with a long, coiled cable attached to a power distribution box mounted on a workbench at the back of the container
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As if sensing that she was beginning to understand what was going on, the strand coiled around her leg tightened its grip and started to drag her forwards
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coiled wires above it, and the security system
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the fence on a very good day, the coiled wires on the fence
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couldn't have cleared those coiled wires
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and as his hands touched the round wooden bar which coiled the rope, he saw
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In these outer bands of the tropical storm, thunder rolled stealthily as though it were a coiled rattlesnake waiting to strike when the squall finally broke and unleashed its fury; quiet bursts of lightning brilliantly flashed through the tall windows overlooking the veranda and the ocean and in the process cast ghostly, unnatural shadows across the richly appointed sitting areas where guests mingled before going to dinner
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He then scanned the likes of coiled green snakes, pythons, cottonmouths, and black mambas, all lying virtually motionless in tropical environments
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Now feeling his heart start to accelerate, he lifted the top of the tank for the puff adder, who laid coiled tightly in the corner
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Ah, but that's your big mistake, because a coiled up serpent is peering out of his rock-ridden sanctuary
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well dressed in the latest GQ style, his hair perfectly coiled
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“I missed,” gasped Max, who had aimed at the coiled body, “but it must have actually bitten the bullet,” he laughed hysterically at this stupid joke
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Some Hindus call this serpent the kundalini, spiritual energy coiled in the base of the spine, which must first be released through the crown of the head, in greater consciousness, to reunite with the divine
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Max grabbed a coiled tie-rope generally used to hold craft in position on the pad, in high winds
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Loosing his grip on the tripwire reins, he grabbed the rope with his left hand and coiled it as best he could
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molten evil bubbled under the surface, he was a coiled spring with a bucket of hot
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Jacob dodges a stack of barrels and a pile of coiled rope
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His first choice was the small hatch where the pilot’s emergency escape rope lay coiled, which had a small hole for the pilot to pull it open quickly should he want to abandon the plane from his window
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His right hand was still coiled up into his tshirt
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” Dog had coiled the rope and fastened it into a funnel that he lined by smearing a sticky gray clay over the inside
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wildly at the vines as they coiled snake-like around his legs
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coiled his safety lines and shut the hatch
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“The same goes for the Celtic coiled serpent/maze
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Suddenly, I felt him leap up in the air behind my back and then he was standing in front of me with the three coiled cobra skeletons in his hands
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I changed direction immediately and asked him what he thought of the coiled cobra skeletons sticking out into the hut from the four eye slits
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For sure, it wasn’t my clay headdress or the coiled cobra skeletons on the walls
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The heart had been corrupted with attacks coiled with dangerous emotions
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serpent (Nagin) lies coiled
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of the mind) which lies coiled in the intervals of Sat, Raj and Tam – gunas (attributes)
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An equal measure of fear and hate for the child demons coiled in my stomach
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Opposite Tom was a coiled snake that dodged whatever Tom threw at him
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His eyes wide, he stared at the small snakes coiled around the rungs
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The black spot grew into a hazy shadow that coiled around his
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I stare at the CD player in front of me, my eyes going back and forth from the connector of the headphones into the machine, down the coiled cord to their landing on the executive chair
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The strings of light coiled around his fingers and slowly materialized into black gloves
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A whisper touched Ceri’s face and coiled around the curtains making them sway, then Ceri saw him
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His lean body was hunched over his horse, coiled to hear or see what was in the darkness
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the limo as if it were a coiled snake
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Her caretaker sat coiled
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mercilessly coiled up in a sickly heap near the river all those months ago, why didn’t you have