"Whirl around" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this plate is pictured the second dry-painting employed in the Night Chant, made on the sixth day of the ceremony. It represents crossed logs which whirl around in a mythic lake. Upon them are alternately seated male and female deities, singing. The light figures are goddesses, haschebaad; the dark ones gods, haschebaku{COMBINING BREVE}n. Their songs treat ...
— The North American Indian • Edward S. Curtis
... Tom, as he flung his top down, quickly pulling the string away, and thus making the top whirl around very fast. "Let's see if either of you can hit my ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's • Laura Lee Hope
... to, above all things!" she replied with a lovely smile, her eyes still fixed on the dancers. "How delightful it must be to whirl around so!" ...
— Sister Carmen • M. Corvus
... and each depositor lent the weight of his individual interest to accelerate the financial crash. The stone set in motion down the mountain assumes a force that no power could stay; on it will go until it rests in the plain From the eminence of his boasted wealth the usurer found this turn come to whirl around on the wheel of fortune and yield to some other mortal, who is the toy of fortune, to grasp for a moment the golden ...
— Alvira: the Heroine of Vesuvius • A. J. O'Reilly |
