They were like vast coiled springs, pressing against one another.
He'd been like a coiled spring all those years.
He was very small and thin, like a coiled spring.
He spoke quietly, but his body was tense as a coiled spring.
He came up off the ground as though he had been sitting on a coiled spring.
We others bounced up as if a coiled spring had let go.
But he was up again like a coiled spring.
His movements were like the motion of a coiled spring.
He was a coiled spring, tightened to the point of outbreak.
Spock, on the other hand, was like a coiled spring.