1
He needed as much protection as you would give a coiled rattler!
2
There, scarcely a foot away, lay a coiled rattler, the ugly head raised.
3
He circled the rock as a wolf will circle a coiled rattler which it does not see.
4
They climbed down none too warily, though they knew well what might be lying, venomous as a coiled rattler, in wait for them below.
5
Many times coiled rattlers would sing at them as they traveled, and Janey would never give the snakes a glance.