A coiled snake ready to strike.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used without object) : The snake coiled, ready to strike. ,The river coiled through the valley.    From Dictionary.com. 

One of them Martin coiled and held before his lips, and blew on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard] Reference

Kundalini, most often described as a coiled serpent existing within the body in conjunction with the chakras.    From Wordnik.com.  [UFO and Paranormal News] Reference

The static, "coiled" shapes appear to writhe on-screen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: September 7, 2003 - September 13, 2003 Archives] Reference

In the middle of the room a lank, angular figure was "coiled" about a mandolin, coaxing an old hymn from its strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man] Reference

•Knees are bent at a subtle angle with your heels ever-so-slightly raised to assume a "coiled" position, ready to strike.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to win a fight (part III)] Reference

Grease-gray and kind of coiled, he plays pinball, Smokes those thin cigars, nurses lemon phosphates.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Grease - grey and kind of coiled he plays pinball, smokes those thin cigars, nurses lemon phosphates.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

On the opposite side of the way some old Spaniards are selling a kind of coiled-up fritter by the yard, swimming in oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond] Reference

And when Michael and Gilroy meet it seems like they’re kind of coiled vipers waiting to strike at each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: TV’s Most Explosive Couple; Burn Notice’s Jeffrey Donovan and Gabrielle Anwar; Talk About Their Most Dangerous Stunts, TV’s Most Unusual Relationship and Much, Much, More!] Reference

All that coiled energy can make TV viewers nervous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Democrats' Disciplinarian] Reference

He froze and scanned the ground for a coiled snake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golgotha] Reference

On the bus and off, McCain is restless, irreverent, coiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Very Human Hero] Reference

One woman had a brown snake coiled around her right forearm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Rages After California Gas Blast] Reference

A little translucent coiled cord protruded from his left ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Am Charlotte Simmons] Reference

Electrical cord coiled loosely up his body from ankle to neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting The Kinks Out] Reference

The water gurgles and whooshes its way through the coiled hose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swicks Rule!] Reference

  His hair had become shiny seashells coiled all over his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [LYES] Reference

A man with a coiled rope on his shoulder began climbing the tower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angel In Her Pocket] Reference

The mouse curled up inside, and the snake coiled around the stump.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lonely Snake] Reference

Out on the sidewalk, people were coiled and folding like autumn leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [By Christmas] Reference

I followed my friend quickly, and soon found myself coiled in a large cask.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference

The coiled current crescendoing, plucking at the cable like a piano hammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deadheading] Reference

I coiled and uncoiled; stood, and straightened my legs from their arthritic twist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traveling Blind] Reference

He plays the flamboyant Ehrlich like a coiled snake: controlled but capable of mayhem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Ganahl: Jon Hamm on the Set of Howl] Reference

Cable was brought on trucks, coiled like snakes around spindles twenty-seven feet high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hole] Reference

Release your ankles from its coiled ropes; slit water, drag it open, catch your breath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke] Reference

But Foxx plays Williams with such coiled ferocity, you'll forgive "Redemption" its sins.    From Wordnik.com.  [SNAP JUDGMENT: TV] Reference

      The first one was dark and angular, coiled-looking inside an expensive suit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everything is Fine] Reference

She made the watery ropes twisted around each other and coiled in the air like a pair of snakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcana Magi - c.27: Hard Battle] Reference

He reaches forward with a coiled-up whip, almost taps my chin with it ... then decides against it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Peacock King: Book 1, Chapter 1] Reference

But there he stands, waiting -- 6 feet 2, head shaved now, muscles long and coiled, a body lasered.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Long Leap Of Faith] Reference

All safe in their black soil they wait, coiled round and round each other into a solid worm-ball in the bottom of the can.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Ago] Reference

This is a Sanskrit word that literally means "serpent" and is a conceptual description of "coiled up" energy at the base of the spine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Srinivasan Pillay: Viagra vs Spirituality: Mojo Rising] Reference

Then he sought to embrace me, and I threw a young cobra, which, coiled in a wicker basket, had been placed in my hand, full in his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darrow Enigma] Reference