Noun : the whirligig of fashion. From Dictionary.com.
Solar wind particles flow along the ropes in whirligig trajectories leading from the sun to Earth. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Bibliothèque] Reference
To repeat: Solar wind particles flow along the ropes in whirligig trajectories leading from the sun to Earth. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Bibliothèque] Reference
You also do not need a "whirligig," or other device, to deliver the water to your grain bed. From Wordnik.com. [FriendFeed - georgeh] Reference
He thought all the evening; or rather thought and fancy took a kind of whirligig dance, where it was hard to tell which was which. From Wordnik.com. [Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference
Darwin's little whirligig as the author of it all!. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
So through the whirligig gate, Joseph, Nef, and I. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
"The whirligig I gave her soon after Anne's" death. From Wordnik.com. [Ill Met By Moonlight]
The tree-laden Garden was spinning like a whirligig. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas]
It is about necessity. whirligig: telco projects 1, 2 and 3. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-09-01] Reference
On dairy cows and their amazing gyroscopic whirligig adventures. From Wordnik.com. [On agro] Reference
The writing and publishing whirligig is, if you will, a lottery. From Wordnik.com. [September 2004] Reference
The whirligig of time brings about strange revenges, for a truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
He replaced the dancer and pulled down something like a whirligig. From Wordnik.com. [The Door Through Space] Reference
I rarely dance, but when I do, I flail like a cracked-out whirligig. From Wordnik.com. [luvabeans Diary Entry] Reference
The danger in the curved path is an abrupt curve, a whirligig effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
Thus each spurred his hobby, or drove her car, round the Hazeldean whirligig. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
She set it down and stooped forward, turning the bowl as if it were a whirligig. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Eskimo Tales] Reference
Until the whirligig of time, according to its practice, brought in its revenges. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
At an antique store near his home, he recently purchased an old toy, a whirligig. From Wordnik.com. [He and His Wife Wrote the Pricing Bible] Reference
I saw her on one of those whirligig things, talking to her young man as I came in. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Little Ironies] Reference
But the village is very conspicuously a victim of 'the whirligig of time,' and William. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Blah-blah on fever pitch against the usual worthy competition. whirligig: this and that. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-09-01] Reference
Now the whirligig of time had transformed him into a cardinal and her into the wife of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference
"He'd go crazy with such a whirligig about as you," said Bea, a little envious of Olive's good luck. From Wordnik.com. [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference
Who will stop that mighty whirligig to inspect whether the champagne is real, or the turtle is prime?. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
The whirligig of time brings about, not merely its revenges, but also its compensations and coincidences. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
When the whirligig of Spanish politics called her brother Alfonso, who at the time was a military student at. From Wordnik.com. [Spanish Life in Town and Country] Reference
The whirligig of the enemy (time, not the Boer, not the "Law") had again carried us to the beginning of another week. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
If you're thinking music and spiders make an odd pair, consider that the whirligig beetle was named after Roy Orbison. From Wordnik.com. [Neil Young Fan Honors Him With A Spider] Reference
Nicknamed the "Tornado" for his whirligig windup and explosive delivery, Nomo is blowing through National League line-ups. From Wordnik.com. [Nomo The Tornado] Reference
'If you go on at that rate, nephew,' interrupted Sir Hugh, holding his ears, 'you'll put my poor head quite into a whirligig. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
The middle movements become elements of the wild whirligig of life; even the Rondo Burleske is hectic but not frantic or depraved. From Wordnik.com. [As Mahler's death centenary nears, an outpouring of recordings pays tribute] Reference
“The whirligig of time brings in its revenges,” and it was the last thing in the world Mark Frettlby would have thought of seeing. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Hansom Cab] Reference
So emphatic is the whirligig character of his draftsmanship that it amounts to an involuntary response to every aspect of his experience. From Wordnik.com. [Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Painted 20th Century As Terrible Bridge] Reference
Thus the outline of the philosophy is able to be studied without any complication, and we have no whirligig of priestly talk to confuse it. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference
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