Word: coiled
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...playing in the shade of the ohia-lehuas, digging yams and arums under the kukui, the algarola and the bastard sandalwood, the little kingdom went from bad to better and from better to worse, while the corpulent monarchs, after their daily lomi-lomi, shuffled across and off this mortal coil. Young Dole was educated at Oahu College, and then went to Williams College. He received his law training in Boston and returned again to the Islands, but still the great 200, 300, 400 Ib. monarchs, begarlanded, strutted on their way ?an illustrious dynasty, Kamehameha III, Kamehameha IV, Kamehameha...
...principle on which the invention rests is simple. A permanent magnet is buried in the track at a point opposite each semaphore. A pick-up coil is placed under part of the locomotive. When passing over the magnet in the roadbed, this pick-up coil receives the impulse, which in turn is communicated to the apparatus on the engine controlling the air brakes. If the signal is set at "caution" or "danger," the magnet reflects that indication and the speed of the train is automatically reduced. If the engineer does not heed this warning but allows his train to pass...
...Kritzendorf, small Austrian hamlet, there shuffled off this mortal coil one of the most picturesque characters of an age that is past. Death came to 84-year-old Peter Menth, famed in Vienna and throughout the German Empire as the world's best maker of boots...
Lust is a serpent twining with subtle coil a man and a woman whom fires devour...
...Moundsville, W. Va., the Army Air Service has installed a "radio compass," with electric oscillations flashing between the towers at either end of the airway. An aviator flying exactly on the course hears only dashes; if his plane turns to left or right of the course and a coil in his receiving equipment is at an angle to the course, he hears a warning signal, dash and dot, or dot and dash, as the case...