whirlin

Won't he see the sun gettin 'left behind an' whirlin 'the other way from what it does in nature? An' ef the sun goes the other way round, ain't it sure to unwind all the time thet it's ben a-rollin 'up? "

The Panchronicon Harold Steele MacKaye 1897

January 1, 2008 at 7:33 am whirlin for whirled peas here too

No fite - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Bleedin" newsies invaded, bad as any whirlin" dervishes, they are, wot broke a British square.

Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000

Now, my belubed bredern, de world am a whirlin 'and a whirlin', jest as it allers hes bin.

Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett

But Pottie sprang oot o 'the coat -- it wasna ill to get ooten, puir chield -- an' doon the yaird a 'he cud flee, wi' Sandy at his tail, whirlin 'the hewk roond his heid, an' skreechin 'like the very mischief.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

Atower to the middle o 'the flure he comes again, an', stridin 'his legs oot, he began to garr first the tae airm an' syne the tither gae whirlin 'roond an' roond like the fly wheel o 'an engine.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

"They seem to think he's a whirlin 'ball of fire, but that don't worry you none, does it?"

Going Some Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

"They had good luck," he said, "and now are listening to false prophets; they have boosted up and got their heads a whirlin ', and now they think they must judge things from where they stand, when the fact is the possum is lower down the tree -- down nigh to the roots;" they either "saw darkly" or were playing into the hands of the southern planters who feared a scarcity of labor.

"Pap" Singleton, The Moses of the Colored Exodus Walter Lynwood 1909

I've just had the riddle sprung on me and it's got MY head whirlin 'like a bottle in a tide rip.

Shavings Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Can't you see you've got my head whirlin 'like one of those windmills of yours?

Shavings Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907