1 Watching Mattie whirl down the floor from hand to hand he wondered how he could ever have thought that his dull talk interested her.
2 He smiled at the whirl of metaphor with which he was trying to build up a defence against the influences of the last hour.
3 "Well, I see Kennicott's wife is taking a whirl at the rest-room, now," said Dr. Westlake.
4 The loose coils rapidly straightened out in a long dragging line astern, and then, instantly, the reel began to whirl.
5 His knees were shaking beneath him, and his mind was in a whirl.
6 When in Mr. Gardner's employment, I was kept in such a perpetual whirl of excitement, I could think of nothing, scarcely, but my life; and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
7 The blue whirl of men got very near, until it seemed that in truth there would be a close and frightful scuffle.
8 As he passed along, the trees and bushes, the huts of his servitude, the whole scene of his degradation, seemed to whirl by him as the landscape by the rushing ear.
9 My head is in a whirl," I remarked; "the more one thinks of it the more mysterious it grows.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL 10 In every meeting there was a hope of receiving farther confirmation of Miss Crawford's attachment; but the whirl of a ballroom, perhaps, was not particularly favourable to the excitement or expression of serious feelings.
11 The long sweep of green water roaring forever down, and the thick flickering curtain of spray hissing forever upward, turn a man giddy with their constant whirl and clamour.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem 12 There was a perfect whirl in my head.
13 Just then Julie, who by the death of her brothers had become one of the richest heiresses in Moscow, was in the full whirl of society pleasures.
14 My head is sometimes in a whirl.
15 A frenzied whirl enveloped them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN