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Then it found a momentary harbor in a little pool just outside the main leap of the fall, and shot out of it again with its curious uncurving spring.

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold

Books, uncurving furniture, photographs of his parents taken on their twenty-fifth anniversary standing on the chiffonier in a double leather frame that opened like a book.

From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie

How little he understands the art of curving and waving and uncurving the tail in the nicely nuanced rhythms and exquisitely designed patterns that are so familiar to ourselves!

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

Gymnotuses are plentiful enough both in the Amazon and its tributaries; and it was one of these living coils, about ten feet long, which, after uncurving itself like a bow, again attacked the diver.

From Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Verne, Jules