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Esimerkit

• the sinuous coils of a snake
• The wild grapevines that twisted their coils from tree to tree.
• A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.
• The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier.
• to coil a rope when not in use
• The snake coiled itself before springing.
• If the windes rage, doth not the Sea wax mad, / Threatning the welkin with his big-swolne face? / And wilt thou haue a reason for this coile?
• this great Savage desired also to see him. A great coyle there was to set him forward.
• they continued so extremely fond of gold, that if Peter sent them abroad, though it were only upon a compliment, they would roar, and spit, and belch, and piss, and f—t, and snivel out fire, and keep a perpetual coil, till you flung them a bit of gold [...].