The others followed, Judge Lodge uncoiling a horribly significant rope.

Jan Jacobus made a desperate attempt to get on his feet, but, for all his strength, he might as well have tried to uncoil the folds of a great snake as to unbind the many hands that held him, for the Romanys have as many secret ways of restraining a person as the Japanese.

On Verty's entrance, Mr. Jinks started up with a terrific frown; or rather, to more accurately describe the movement which he made, uncoiled his legs, and raised his stooping shoulders.

In a little while she awoke and uncoiling her figure, rolled softly over on her back and stretched like some drowsy feline of the jungle; then sitting up with lithe grace she looked down at the print of her head on the pillow and deftly smoothed it out.

Then, hiding her baby in a safe corner, she uncoiled her heavy hair and let its luxuriant black tresses fall about her like a cloak.

The snake, uncoiling its head, raised itself, with a low hiss, and then, for the first time, I saw it,saw the hood, the terrible crest glistening in the moonshine.

" Still never turning his back on the cowpuncher, who was now uncoiling his lariat and preparing it for a cast, Bard edged the piebald into the current.

I stammered, as I uncoiled the piece of spare rope from my shoulders; "I want you a minute.

The bugle has gone for lunch, and G. who has been sound asleep for the last hour, is uncoiling herself preparatory to going down.

Perceiving that I had no intention of giving him fair play by coming within his reach, he suddenly uncoiled and glid across a log, thinking to make good his retreat; but being determined on havingnot his scalp, for the head of a rattle-snake is rather a dangerous toybut his rattle, I pursued him across the log.

Dade uncoiled his riata with aimless, fumbling fingers and swung the noose facetiously toward the bottle, uptilted over the eager mouth of a weazened little Irishman.

She threw herself gracefully into the chair I handed to her, and began by uncoiling a string of phrases, to the effect that her visit was merely to consult me on "unavoidable pecuniary difficulties.

And then, slowly uncoiling their tentacles, they all began moving towards himcreeping at first deliberately, and making a soft purring sound to each other.

The nephew gently uncoiled his uncle, and addressed himself to the father: "Respected sir, I have long loved your daughter, and am not totally unprepared to believe that she may, in some slight measure, reciprocate my affections.

The big guide had uncoiled his long dog-whip.

She was the same in one sense as on that first day when he had seen her coiling and uncoiling her golden chain, yet how different in every aspect which revealed her state of mind and emotion!

He uncoiled a few yards of this and fastened it to the knob of a door.

An ebony-hued snake, his sides dotted with red spots, was slowly and solemnly uncoiling his circles upon the stones.

Suddenly he saw the profile of the dead woman with one eye turned toward him, graciously and malignly, just as the "eye of the morning" must have looked at its mistress while uncoiling her mysterious dances in her Asiatic dwelling.