Twirling

Examples

• Long ages ago man had learned to make fire by patiently rubbing two sticks together, or by twirling a round one between his hands with its point resting upon a flat piece of wood. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Poor wretch, she said, twirling round the little bit of paper in her fingers, how I could crush her with this! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Major was twirling them round by the little chain from which they sometimes hung to their lady's waist, and was thereby endangering his own eye. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I had better see my nephew at once,' said the old lady, twirling her reticule indignantly, and rising as she spoke. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The flute is quite enough; and she began twirling her tall Cossack round the room. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• So there Casby sat, twirling and twirling, and making his polished head and forehead look largely benevolent in every knob. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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