coiled

Like a Jack in the Box just sprung from coiled captivity, he begins rambling excitedly.

But all of them add up to a coiled-up rage, ready to lash out at the nearest target.

Other models, such as string theory, propose more dimensions, but those are coiled up too small to be seen.

Then the snake coiled around the child and squeezed her to death.

The stories are splintered and refracted, the progressions coiled.

On his loins was a lion of great fierceness, and coiled round his waist was a hissing mamba (snake).

In other words, the crown of his head was to be shaven, and his long hair tightly coiled upon the bare place thus made.

The string of pearls was coiled up in the midst of the roll of soiled muslin and the badge was pinned to one of the folds.

She wore her hair quite smooth, with plaits coiled round the back of her head.

After a straight-away run of a hundred yards, it coiled serpentlike around the mountain's crest.