coiling

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Coiling around each other like flowers, teen-agers or snakes, these superb improvisationists prove that they can make hilarious fun of anything from the P.T.A. to the old Tennessee Williams.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coiling up and down tne heights and planes and depths of the amazing Bel Geddes stage, the legends of Jacob's loss of Rachel, Joseph's dispatch into Egypt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coiling around each other like flowers, teen-agers or snakes, Manhattan's superb improvisationists prove that they can make hilarious fun of anything from the P.T.A. to the old Tennessee Williams.

From Time Magazine Archive

This would make the Coiling Dragon forgetful of Bing.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

The sun is rolling slowly Beneath the sluggish folds of the sky-serpents, Coiling, uncoiling, blue-black, sparked with fires.

From Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology by Aldington, Richard