coily

Example Sentences

• "The pillars in Figure 12.24 were built similarly: I designed a helix (a coily cord shape) and then swept a large 2D circle along the path the helix describes."
• "This said; his hand he coily snatcht away / From forth Antinous hand."
• "She coily biting the lip, and brideling her head, as if ſhe had bene ſome mans beſt Gelding, ſprucely thus replyed."
• "How often hath the wanton wind / To gentleſt blaſts himſelf confin’d, / Whilſt playing with you too unkind / You ſhook him off and ſtill untwin’d, / And coily turn’d another way, / Diſdaining his unlicenc’d play?"
• "At firſt ſhe coily ev’ry kiſs withſtood, / And all her cheek was fluſh’d with modeſt blood: / With heedleſs nails he now ſurrounds her ſhoes, / To ſave her ſteps from rains and piercing dews."
• "And ends her pavin, thirteen times as ſoon / As doth her brother, of whoſe golden hair / She borroweth part and proudly doth it wear; / Then doth ſhe coily turn her face aſide, / That half her cheek is ſcarce ſometimes deſcry’d."