"The cold creases of uncurving sheets, the greasy click of tumblers turning, Miranda's bony bare feet sliding blind on the icy wood floor."
"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."
"1 Xavier sat in his room, the uncurving walls wrapped around him like a prism."