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    1. became a bosom chums during the social whirl of the nineteen fifties and all that


    2. I tuck it back under the covers and lie, staring at the ceiling … my mind freewheeling as the stars whirl through my head … a soft sound brings me back to reality …


    3. The rest of the day goes in a whirl of activity – I am taken to a bird house where half a dozen birds are acclimatised to my tawstones and I am instructed in the mysteries of directing a bird


    4. His wife embellished her life considerably with good quality clothes and jewellery, buffing up her ego and fluffing her aura so much that she became a leading light in the social whirl at the country club


    5. Slowly, and in a maddening whirl of confusion, recrimination and tears, Lucy begun to piece together the utter horror and enormity of what her mother was saying


    6. I’m horribly close to tears – if we can move in here … that would be too wonderful … I don’t remember much about anything else that was said … my mind in a whirl … to be able to stay …


    7. fourteen buns and a Viennese Whirl


    8. that she became a leading light in the social whirl at the country


    9. maddening whirl of confusion, recrimination and tears, Lucy begun


    10. Going to give it a whirl?"

    11. The next few days passed in a whirl of activity


    12. head was in a whirl and he needed time to think


    13. Jean’s mind was still in a whirl


    14. promised…’ Suddenly there was a whirl of motion and the


    15. Always aware of the conditions he looked around constantly, the fire was raging and spreading and it was going upwards towards the Petols building, then he spotted two young faces coming out of the trees heading toward the Clearys, when the wind veered and bits of leaves and ash started to fly in the air and whirl about then dove down ahead of the boys


    16. Jean’s head was a whirl of conflicting thoughts as he went


    17. Richard’s head was in a whirl as he tried


    18. because you’re having a whirl of a time understanding the equations,


    19. Aspen and Rogan ran to grab him, but they were too late, and Mars began to whirl into the sky


    20. The days flew by telescoping themselves into what seemed a total whirl and it was quite easy to loose track of time

    21. Sheena could do nothing but nod at him, her mind in a frantic whirl


    22. Jumping from the car Dawn rushed into the shack, her mind a whirl of confusion


    23. Kay’s mind was a whirl of confusion


    24. His mind was a whirl of confusing questions


    25. Or, was she remembering what Gene Frazer said about her fights with her son? She wasn’t sure but, in a confusing whirl of knife blades, ceiling beams, fat cheeks waggling with laughter, squinty-eyed grimaces while his cock befouled her, taut shoulder muscles, angry shrieking, a dagger penetrating the soft flesh below her chin as she contorted her neck to escape it, blood trickling along her neck, the color red, a wash of green, a snickering cockroach crawling over her, red again, the ceiling, black, all black, it ended


    26. my thoughts began to whirl


    27. The racks begin to whirl, as red and


    28. After Kid Mojo handed out his compliment to me, he whirl winded down to the ground and busted out with atomic flares


    29. Still she walked forwards, still the Dark shrank until it with a sudden force vanished in a whirl into itself and was gone


    30. The buzz and whirl surrounding events as they unfolded often dealt with the “Who?”

    31. Marques and Tatiana enjoy the swimming pool and whirl pools on the


    32. She picked up a spoon and stirred the broth in circles, watching flecks of spice whirl into the center around chunks of potato


    33. Selma was glad he didn’t whirl around the room one more time, as


    34. His brain began to whirl with sudden alarming thoughts


    35. The next moment, the air began to whirl in wild patterns, the burning trees and the hawks swooping in a strange vortex


    36. He saw Caleb whirl around in his perch just in time to see the backs of the driver and


    37. For several days the whirl of catching up on what I’d missed at school pushed everything else out of my mind


    38. Mind in a whirl of inadequacy, headache, self-reproach… I spent the day in bed, dehydrating, starving, unable to sleep, delirious with self-recrimination, refining plans for suicide


    39. were to bring Their bodies into the whirl of curiosity and vehement emotion


    40. I whirl; Ani stands there, a knife in his hand

    41. whirl of intense activity of his own plane, and that it seems to him immensely


    42. As she peered timidly into the shadows between the trees, something swept into the sunlight with a swift whirl of wings: a great parrot which dropped on to a leafy branch and swayed there, a gleaming image of jade and crimson


    43. The unexpectedness and violence stunned her; she had only a confused impression of a whirl of happenings—the terrifying grip of a mighty arm, the blazing eyes of her abductor, and his hot breath burning on her flesh


    44. Gomes ran around the lake with his head still in a whirl then swam a few lengths before pumping some iron in his gym to try and ease some of the anger that was building inside him


    45. A whirl of steel sheared through the hideous trunks that waved toward him, and he smote the crystal sphere again and yet again


    46. The turbaned riders were being forced into this gorge, because there was nowhere else for them to go, and they went reluctantly, in a shower of arrows and a whirl of swords


    47. She could only whirl and spring aside and twist her body to avoid the strokes, and each time she moved to dodge one snake, the motion brought her within range of another, so that she had to keep shifting with the speed of light


    48. With another man it would have seemed ridiculous—a foolish savage prancing meaninglessly in a whirl of feathers


    49. Headlong they went down the steps together, in a revolving whirl of limbs and heads and bodies


    50. His mind was in a whirl of confusion; he could scarcely realize that Jesus had been arrested














































    1. He whirled the club around and wailed it down on one of those slashing scimitars


    2. She whirled around and taking a stance with her hands on her hips and faced Boras


    3. they whirled about, watched anxiously by their parents


    4. He’d grown quiet during the later part of the conversation, but when he whirled on her, his eyes flashing with anger, it nearly sucked the breath from her chest


    5. Was he all that different, she now was covered with his bruises? Although admittedly, most of them came from packing grain bags, only a few were obtained when the truck whirled about


    6. "What?" she whirled to look up at his unshaven face It was apparent that his night hadn't been much more successful, than hers had


    7. Her feet had no sooner hit the ground, before she whirled herself against his chest


    8. Racing back on to the wooden floor, he whirled her so high into the air


    9. Even when the snow whirled about her head, causing her hair to be whipped into her face, she didn't give up until she had it all put in its rightful spot


    10. "I promised –” He whirled her around and sat her down on the chair, "to stop tormenting you

    11. However, as Jim whirled her about the floor, his glare grew colder and colder


    12. He whirled around and saw something there from his buried past


    13. Not exactly pulled more a case of pointing the finger as each peg then shot out and whirled over his head to land in Lemoss's sack


    14. The big man whirled just like a dancing bear Nerissa once saw exhibited in Smyrna on the Feast Day of Apollo


    15. dodged one of his bearish hands and whirled away


    16. whirled in the air and hurled straight at me, between the eyes


    17. He whirled it round: it sung across the main;


    18. She whirled her sling, and let the first stone fly


    19. with Andrastus, laughing with him as they whirled


    20. Mars whirled on Cupid

    21. Sebastian whirled to the stairs, and Victoria and Russell followed him as he took the steps two at a time


    22. Kel Orland whirled his chair around abruptly


    23. They dipped and whirled and danced around the dairy floor until the music ended


    24. He stared at the viewport ahead of him, watching the chaos of color that whirled past them,


    25. Amaranthe whirled, using the movement to hide the drawing of her knife


    26. One of his throwing knives whirled toward Arbitan’s back, and a second weapon appeared in his hand instantly


    27. Amaranthe whirled on him


    28. Without waiting for an answer, he whirled and raced out of the basement


    29. The tornado whirled over the tree tops, over the hill and down the paddocks


    30. Her eyes whirled in wild panic, her head pointing up the cliff toward her young foal

    31. She picked up her sword, whirled it around her head for a moment, and a blanket of calm eased over her


    32. Already tired from his exertions, Darkburst was quickly overcome with fatigue and could do little more than struggle to keep his snout above the waves as he was whirled around and around by the river's fierce current


    33. Reese gave a low groan, and then he was pressed down against her length, kissing her, holding her against him, and it seemed that time whirled and slowed and created a shimmering sphere around them which would last an eternity


    34. I whirled about to confront her, "I don‘t know, could it be that I got to work late one day, only to find that my entire R&D team had been slaughtered by a deathbot, which had somehow managed to vanish without a trace?"


    35. What had he said? Was there something she should do? Mike whirled, striking the side of Truman’s head with the gun


    36. Occasionally these were interspersed by the sound that her staff made in the night air as she whirled it around and around


    37. Her arm was grabbed and she was whirled around, then slammed down upon the ground


    38. Everything whirled about as colored vortexes


    39. A makeshift sedan-chair was produced and they whirled her around the encampment in a wild and joyful festival of thanksgiving


    40. They had a lot of space since the humans still kept their distance and they whirled around over the cobblestones to the beat of the music from the troupe

    41. Her voice shook under the pressure of the thousand words and feelings that whirled around and made her dizzy


    42. She was whirled into the battle herself again


    43. The empty bodies whirled down into the frothing waves, and they were devoured by the ocean


    44. Before Orphenn could growl a sarcastic remark, a squall of darkness whirled at


    45. He whirled round and saw nothing


    46. At first, confusion and then shock whirled amid the


    47. He whirled it in the air above his head and threw the end over the bird’s neck to Peter, who waited on the other side


    48. He whirled around to face the others


    49. The man fell with a cry and Nicolas whirled into the fight, unable to think, or see, or hear anything but the steel and the shouts of his opponents


    50. Antonin Zarras whirled around, his face livid










































    1. He felt like shutting down the houri on him, or better yet, transform it into a whirling malestrom of rusty, broken knives that chased him for days, something reminiscent of what he had to endure


    2. ’ Gilla said, whirling round and dashing back to the villa


    3. It’s all looking very possible and I begin to know what Anna meant earlier on by things moving so fast that it leaves your head whirling!


    4. Unusually, she lies awake for some time after laying her head on the pillow … thoughts whirling around in her mind


    5. My brain is whirling as I lie in bed staring at the ceiling … I’ve read about people who meet and find that they are two halves of the same being … that secretary we had before Claire … she swore she and her boyfriend had that sort of relationship … didn’t really believe her to be honest … especially once I’d met him


    6. emotions whirling through his mind


    7. Without pausing to allow them time to think, he was whirling, spinning, and jabbing at them with ferocity and strength, unyielding and unabatedly


    8. Whirling her around, but not releasing his hold on her, he again asked, "No, what did you see?"


    9. Suddenly, a shrieking cry shattered the night air, and then several pleas of NO! Followed, whirling around to look behind her, she could see two people struggling in the dark several yards from her


    10. Whirling about, she caught a faint glimpse of a couple struggling just outside the light

    11. Whirling around at the opposite door, she discovered, he hadn't moved a step towards her


    12. thought it a good time to ask about the stupid ideas whirling around in my head


    13. Getting under the helmet was a little like the onset of norrot, there was the instant of whirling confusion as the contact map is built, then always a sudden rush of knowledge and experience


    14. " he stopped, whirling to squeeze her frozen arms


    15. With conflicting feelings whirling in his head, he stuck the


    16. Not much has been said of Rosecare and Lemoss, though they stared into one another’s eyes and Lemoss could swear they were whirling in a forest glade where the deer and antelope peered out from the lower bowers of the trees


    17. whirling unceasingly around each other


    18. It was a mass of whirling colours


    19. A loud whirling rumble could be heard as the energiser, for transmitting Golf and the ruro globe, powered up


    20. worrying was that I could see faces whirling in the metal if I looked even closer

    21. She was still whirling on the battlements in the wind


    22. Alex grabbed her arm as she passed, whirling her to face him


    23. ’s dying to empty his bladder, as usual, the phrase ‘I’m getting too old for this,‘ whirling around in his brain


    24. the whirling snow he saw her eager face, with a quick recognition


    25. was whirling past him and seemed to say, "Hurry on, hurry on, we have


    26. morning to find the air full of whirling snowflakes He didn't mind the


    27. The helicopter flew over the stand of trees again with a clatter of whirling blades


    28. One of the blades snapped off, whirling across the helipad and burying itself in a tall chimney stack


    29. It still sounded as if millions of tiny bubbles were whirling round his throat


    30. it is true, but there was a storm, and snow began whirling through the

    31. danced all around the room, whirling her little skirts about her to


    32. He staggered slightly, the bright moonlight blinking out as his world was unexpectedly filled with a whirling blackness


    33. Next, four whirling brushes popped out of a recess in the wall and began scrubbing the animal vigorously from head to tail


    34. Trying to ignore the gentle whirling noises of the recording equipment, I sighed loudly and flopped back into the uncomfortable, red plastic chair


    35. As the whirling brushes drew nearer, my eyes grew wider, and my shouts grew wilder


    36. brush with disaster in the whirling current at Ripple Rock


    37. What had been an empty, open space, was now covered in whirling dervishes, gymnasts, acrobats…when he felt the first hard elbow graze his rib cage it took a while to sink in


    38. Behold, the storm of the Lord! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked


    39. Just as suddenly, she thrust herself back from him with an intense urgency and whirling, she fled down the path of departure without a backward glance


    40. The whirling darkness in the pillar that seemed to close in, like a sensation

    41. Wynne appeared at his side, the wind sending his platinum hair whirling


    42. The creature staring back at him had eyes of a whirling palette of silver and blue


    43. and not whirling at the periphery


    44. But whirling storms that often whip a human being,


    45. and could smell the sulfuric acid whirling within the cloud


    46. Confused, his mind was whirling


    47. “I’ll still have to spank her and tie her up and such, but I won’t have to physically hurt her as much, and I won’t have to be nasty emotionally! I can be as nice and as loving as I want while I’m doing it!” Mark crowed in joy, whirling Talia around with a few spontaneous dance steps across the cool black sand


    48. “You!” Youssaf, whirling around, now pointed at a surprised Moshe


    49. Spears cried out, and spun to the ground spasmodic�ally flinging his weapon almost as high as the whirling blades


    50. Now the enormous cloud seemed to hover directly over Pharaoh's City, a gigantic whirling











































    1. The Dark reeled about him in still denser whirls up and down as a column


    2. 6 The wind goes toward the south, and turns about to the north; it whirls about continually, and the wind returns again according to


    3. Above eye level, branches bent under the weight of accumulated frozen snow, drifting off in whirls as little flurries of wind caught hold


    4. the lover wakes and whirls in a dancing joy,


    5. It twisted and writhed like a great shadowy serpent, then broadened and billowed out in shining folds and whirls


    6. The wind howls, and the snow whirls, and we can't go out and so get away from each other


    7. Let them and those with the ability to design space worms and space whirls and Black Holes now


    8. ideas to renovate the cosmos by assembling space whirls


    9. An observation coming instinctively to mind one may recognise is that the form reminds rather explicitly of natural phenomenon as hurricanes, water whirls and even the shape most commonly favoured to express the cosmic object referred too as a Black Hole


    10. I've got it in my head that I'm going to help her somehow, but she whirls in my direction, her dark blond braid whipping over her shoulder

    11. Whirls in his head began easing, silence


    12. whirls around and trots away as you are pulling


    13. The Plant whirls through seven changes and becomes a Sacred Animal


    14. He whirls back toward her window, then stops himself


    15. I desperately wish Rain was here, and the thought makes my chest tighten so bad I nearly stumble as Angel whirls me around on the makeshift dance floor in the yard


    16. Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, whirls,


    17. What whirls of evil, bliss and sorrow, stem thee!


    18. Then the doctor whirls on me and says:


    19. The next minute he whirls on me and says:


    20. “Can’t you feel how lightweight we are, Marie? You can move by hardly twitching a muscle!” He sets her in his wheeled desk chair and pants as he whirls her in circles until she cannot laugh anymore for the pain of it

    21. Coordinated as she whirls, though how she knows what dancing is, he could never guess


    22. "My head whirls," said he


    23. “Sorry about that,” comes Guntram’s voice, and she whirls


    24. When he hears none, he whirls around, grabs Lyre by his coat, and shoves him up against the wall


    25. “C-Ciere,” he croaks, and she whirls to face him


    26. Devon whirls and Daniel turns so quickly that he nearly slips


    27. The illusion must catch the man’s eye, because he whirls around, prepared to fire on her


    28. And what, though, about the second tree? Well, it was not so many leaves as it was frost and sheaths of ice and snow, that as you watched just lifted and blew in spirals and whirls down into the men's faces


    29. A whole lifetime loomed suddenly ahead, as quickly as the turns and whirls of the highway brought her suddenly to edges of cliffs, and each bend of the road, even as the years, could not be seen ahead


    30. The wild wind whirls away

    31. Look! here, far water-locked; beyond all hum of human weal or woe; in these most candid and impartial seas; where to traditions no rocks furnish tablets; where for long Chinese ages, the billows have still rolled on speechless and unspoken to, as stars that shine upon the Niger's unknown source; here, too, life dies sunwards full of faith; but see! no sooner dead, than death whirls round the corpse, and it heads some other way


    32. And my head whirls, and in my eyes are children


    33. That my head whirls


    34. Put the frozen pot on the fire: the ice will begin to break, and melt, and move; the water will begin to stir, and bubbles will rise; then, when it begins to boil, it whirls about and makes a noise


    35. This time the beast is not standing still, and you throw your lasso, carefully watching the fall as it whirls through the air


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    Synonyms for "whirl"

    spin twirl twist twisting whirl crack fling go offer pass commotion convolution swirl vortex gyrate reel spin around eddy purl whirlpool tumble whirl around birl twiddle tumult agitation hurry revolution rotation gyration rotate pirouette wheel

    "whirl" definitions

    confused movement


    the shape of something rotating rapidly


    a usually brief attempt


    the act of rotating rapidly


    turn in a twisting or spinning motion


    cause to spin


    flow in a circular current, of liquids


    revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis


    fly around