"The coil on deck is most beautifully uncoiling at the rate of three nautical miles an hour.

He could lasso and throw any galloping criminal, however fierce, with a gracefully uncoiling rope of deadly adjectives.

And then he tells of the labyrinthine evolutions when the long line moving over the school floor coils and uncoils itself more swiftly than any serpent, each horse moving at speed, each one obeying as implicitly as any creature of brass and iron moved by steam.

At the Rhyn there, how terribly he uncoils!