Whirled

Examples

• There was hair upon the end, which blazed and shrunk into a light cinder, and, caught by the air, whirled up the chimney. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Stranger still, he whirled the girdle twice around his head, then released one end so that the leather strip flew out and the stone shot straight at a bird in the water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The grating wind sawed rather than blew; and as it sawed, the sawdust whirled about the sawpit. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Rebecca did not rise from her attitude of misery until the door slammed upon him and his carriage whirled away. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I felt the steel tear into my chest, all went black before me, my head whirled in dizziness, and I felt my knees giving beneath me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Once within the circle he whirled her round and round in a dance. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Haley whipped up the horse, and, with a steady, mournful look, fixed to the last on the old place, Tom was whirled away. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Mr. Pickwick planted himself into his own corner, as firmly as he could; and on whirled the chaise faster than ever. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Ferguson mounted beside the driver, and we whirled away to breakfast. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Strange feelings came over me, and thoughts, forced upon me by some secret power, whirled round and round my brain. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Thus was I severed from Bessie and Gateshead; thus whirled away to unknown, and, as I then deemed, remote and mysterious regions. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The dog was whirled around forty or fifty times, and a little flat piece of leather came out--and the ladies fainted. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The wind sawed, and the sawdust whirled. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Twice more in the darkness the bell at the great gate sounded, and the irruption was repeated, and the grindstone whirled and spluttered. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• A thousand spindles whirled where one hummed before. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Quick they were whirled over long, straight, hopeless streets of regularly-built houses, all small and of brick. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• My head whirled round, and my thoughts were in dreadful confusion. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Birney was thrown to Tyler's right and Crawford to his left, with Gibbon as a reserve; and Ewell was whirled back speedily and with heavy loss. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I was simply whirled into the street. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And ever the wind sawed, and the sawdust whirled. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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