whirls

• “The poet Coleridge envisioned it within whirls of blue opium smoke.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Punk Poet Finds a Muse

• “All France is in a roar; a sea of persons, estimated at 'ten thousand,' whirls 'all this day in the Palais Royal.”

  The French Revolution

• “The "whirls," double vision and nausea are disabling and a sure recipe for vomiting.”

  Durangoherald.com

• “Just the same, if 'you can spare a few minutes from each other after a couple more whirls, Mary an' me'd be complimented to have your presence at dinner.”

  CHAPTER II

• “Also is there bad water at Cambell Fort, where the Yukon goes slim like a maiden, and the water is fast, and the currents rush this way and that and come together, and there are whirls and sucks, and always are the currents changing and the face of the water changing, so at any two times it is never the same.”

  THE WHITE MAN'S WAY

• “With something like a snarl, the Cardinal whirls away from Eldridge and out of the cage so abruptly that it throws the man off-balance, and he stumbles against the table – sending ash spilling to cloud the air, and the technicians bumping into each other to get away from the cloud of remains.”

  Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Thablue’s Review Forum

• “He grabs her, his fingers clamping around her biceps, and whirls her around.”

  Simon & Schuster: Etched in Bone

• “Imagining the family that whirls around him helped me to visualize life as he understands it.”

  >A Conversation with Stephen L. Carter, author of The Emperor of Ocean Park

• “My mind whirls as I struggle not to reach out to him.”

  Simon & Schuster: Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer

• “May. the-shard.comBritain's tallest and biggest sculpture, the bright red Orbit – designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond, with engineers Arup and architect Katherine Findlay – is made of complex, calligraphic loops and whirls writ in steel.”

  The Guardian: The arts in 2012: architecture

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