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  • verb Present participle of gyre.

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Examples

  • Thirty feet up he tilted it forward and accelerated, and then he was circling the ship like a wild hawk, twice, gyring upward, waving, and he broke away off to the southeast and out of sight.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • I'm not sure what happened this morning -- probably something to do with some strange machinations on the web and a confluence of nasty weather and migrating servers, not to mention the slithy toves gyring and gimbelling in the wabe -- but I was unable to post anything this morning, so that's why you see this instead of the usual Friday Blogaround, which I hope to get to during lunch.

    April 2005 2005

  • Thirty feet up he tilted it forward and accelerated, and then he was circling the ship like a wild hawk, twice, gyring upward, waving, and he broke away off to the southeast and out of sight.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • Hundreds of seagulls climbing one narrow beam, gyring, diving, climbing again, feeding on the insects also drawn to the light.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • Hundreds of seagulls climbing one narrow beam, gyring, diving, climbing again, feeding on the insects also drawn to the light.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • There has been no gyring and gimbling from DaveScot.

    The Best of UDreamOfJanie So Far « UDreamOfJanie 2006

  • The forces drew much of the plasma into an accretion disk, a maelstrom gyring about the black hole, to plunge at last down the throat of the vortex.

    Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

  • There was a stirring in the room, a black, hot gyring in front of his face, and he could see in his mind a black blade, as slender and wicked-looking as a scalpel.

    Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992

  • She saw no anima there, only the gyring of emotions, dead weight like a corpse at the gibbet.

    The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

  • A gale arose, gyring and shrieking through the skeletal bridge, so that Celeste stumbled back and was thrown to her knees.

    The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

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