Example Sentences

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You tremble, because only one more link can be added to the chain that is coiling about my neck, and that link is the testimony of the man whose name you expect to bear.

From At the Mercy of Tiberius by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

My heart seemed to cease its beating; I felt like one around whose body some snake is coiling, fold after fold, his slimy grasp.

From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James