He rose to his feet, like the sudden uncoiling of springs.

It was a simple, fluid motion, like the uncoiling of a snake.

What she did was change position again, rising swiftly, a taut uncoiling.

Domitius rose as if he were uncoiling and smiled at Brutus.

"Oh, don't you worry none about that," Harry said, uncoiling from the door frame as he got ready to depart.

Even as he turned, Conan was upon him with the instant uncoiling of steel-spring muscles.

Then, like the sudden uncoiling of some tightly-wound spring, Sparhawk struck.

Uncoiling, he swept the pick in an arc, driving the point into the rear of the creature's skull.

The familiar uncoiling of his left-handed swing enlivened fans who had arrived early.

Parastrenoceras is also closely related to Spiroceras which, except for its uncoiling, shares many of the same features.

Uncoiling, Jase launched himself at the stocky man.

Joe's bottle was a hive of secrets, uncoiling like busy vines in the still air, peopling the shadows.

- and the uncoiling of Lattice, to the list of questions for the builders of the Koyculture.

To carry out gene expression, a cell must control the coiling and uncoiling of DNA around histones.

Duashnoceras is a stephanoceratid of variable size; evolute with a very slight uncoiling of the last whorls.

The curve of the hull itself began to straighten out, like a snake uncoiling its body, thinning the field of target and making it harder to hit.

The way in which he did it, the slow uncoiling, helped underscore just how fast and deadly he could be when he put his mind to it.

Rahjikah drove at him instantly, the other uncoiling and propelling himself weakly out of the line of flight, firing a dart, to Rahjikah's utter astonishment.

The Hyksos army deployed ponderously in front of us, like the uncoiling of some gigantic python, column after column, rank upon rank.

An old standing dynamic problem is how DNA "self-replication" takes place in living cells that should involve transient uncoiling of supercoiled DNA fibers.

But even as he turned, Gordon was on his feet with the instant uncoiling of steel spring muscles, and as the rifle muzzle leaped to a level, the scimitar lashed down.

For one moment Truth saw the whole uncoiling of their shared lives through birth after birth, back to the moment of this ancient sin that had bound them to the Wheel forever.

Still half blinded, Sister saw the strange fire, too, saw it crawling up Swan's arms; it snapped like the uncoiling of a whip and began to wrap itself around the girl's head.

Recent single molecule experiments have confirmed what bulk-plasmid relaxation experiments have proposed earlier, which is that uncoiling of the DNA is torque-driven and proceeds until religation occurs.

The fourth sequence was a purely abstract pattern, a coiling and uncoiling of green and red shapes that was so unsettling and disturbing that I don't feel like talking about it.

On the up side, he felt something deep inside him beginning to uncoil.

Then he saw that it was beginning to uncoil itself.

Well, she'd take shelter in her room and try to uncoil.

She walked back, slowly uncoiling the rope in one hand.

It uncoils the rest of the way to the snowy bed below.

He got off the bed, uncoiling to his full height, and she felt threatened as never before.

Then the rope was in the air, uncoiling as it flew toward him.

Under the touch Steve seemed to loosen a little, to uncoil.

He maintains this position for a second at most and then uncoils himself before landing.

They appeared to uncoil, to show an extra joint on each as I released them.

A long trail hike through beautiful country, in short, uncoils life's complexity.

There's an argument uncoiling now among students of foreign affairs about how much to help the Russians.

The doctor leaned forward like a snake uncoiling for battle.

What happened next was over in an instant, and at the same time seemed to uncoil so slowly that he could see every detail.

The trees outside were budding, the leaves waiting for just the right moment to uncoil and open themselves to yet another summer season.

The rope seemed to hang in the air, scarcely moving, uncoiling as it came.

Something moved on the hearth, uncoiling as might a serpent.

That was how she greeted him after a year's absence, uncoiling the spring of her body slightly.

In the other, he held the loose end of rope, allowing the line to uncoil behind him with each step.

He himself didn't stop to uncoil any from a bollard.

Under uncoiling clouds in a grassland were miles of garden.

Things stirred within, uncoiling themselves like reptiles rising from the water.

He rolled off her, uncoiling easily to his feet.

And then the dark-haired woman moved, uncoiling with astonishing speed.

It was the freshest, and not as reluctant to uncoil.