Fast-moving events

Usage examples of whirlwinds.

Indeed, all that remained of it were a few strictly local and miniature whirlwinds, which would suddenly spring up on the road itself, and twist and twirl fiercely round, raising a mighty column of dust fifty feet or more into the air, where it hung long after the wind had passed, and then slowly dissolved as its particles floated to the earth.

Advancing along the road, in the immediate track of one of these desultory and inexplicable whirlwinds, was a man on horseback.

In the streets outside the apartment building, fallen leaves were swirling in little whirlwinds, each with a life of its own.

Caught in one of the whirlwinds, an antiaircraft missile corkscrewed cra-zily and screamed wide of the whizzer.

It seemed that all the winds of the desert and the currents of the high air had been caught as they passed by and frozen here into stony rising thermals and purling waves and circling whirlwinds that seemed in that twilight to spring and flow.

Battered from all sides, they began to break and scatter, and the whirlwinds drove them.

The whirlwinds danced over the dunes, flogging the surviving Ochar on their way.