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Usage examples of whirligig.

There were no whirligigs on the Spanning lot, but there were wind chimes hanging from the carport awning.

It is an amusing illustration of how the whirligig of time brings its revenges that the spirit of verismo, masquerading as a desire for historical accuracy, has restored the period of the Dumas book,--that is, restored it in name, but not in fact,--with the result, in New York and London at least, of making the dress of the opera more absurd than ever.

Beautiful as the Friesian was, he scarcely noticed it, his thoughts spinning like a whirligig.

Every selfish, meanspirited, stupid thing she had ever done or said came back to rattle through her mind like swords on a whirligig.

When I heard her name was Regina, and on the top of that heard you mention the name of Mortlake, I knew that fate, in its strange whirligig, had brought my daughter back to me.

Between handsprings and whirligigs he delivered his message that would save the world.

A whirligig, like Domdaniel, who confessed that he took the colour of whatever work he was engaged on at the moment?

But, chiefly, it's coming from that whirligig of black holes and their accretion disks.

When the Lizards pushed him off their whirligig flying machine, he'd had $2.

There were the tops and whirligigs, cup and ball sets, sacks of red clay marbles, and a few crudely painted linen gaming boards.

They had wandered through the acts, tents and rides, he and she, talking small talk, passing comment on other people they passed, celebrating the refreshing absence of drones at the party, discussing the merits of whirligigs, shubblebubs, helter-skelters, ice-flumes, quittletraps, slicicles, boing-braces, airblows, tramplescups and bodyflaggers, and bemoaning the sheer pointlessness of inter-species funny-face competitions.

The Times was a whirligig of pointless insinuations - "secretly gave advice to," "back-channel message," "shocking," "confirmed yesterday," and "revelations.

But these goods, which had some merit as craftwork, were not so gorgeous in my eyes as the trash offered by a booth which was not of local origin, in which a man sold whirligigs of gaudy celluloid, kewpie dolls with tinsel skirts riding high over their gross stomachs, alarm-clocks with two bells for determined sleepers, and beautiful red or blue pony-whips.

A squadron of whirligig beetles surfaced warily and came toward him leading little v-shaped shadow wakes along the tan sand bottom.

Out in the river, isolated pleasure craft suddenly began to move toward shore, collecting together like a squadron of whirligig beetles.