When their tired eyes had got accustomed to the mingled smoke and glare, the travellers could see that in the space beyond the card tables, in those back regions where the pianola reigned, there were several couples twirling aboutthe clumsily-dressed miners pirouetting with an astonishing lightness on their moccasined feet.

In all the movement of the overture the two dancers merely touched the tips of each other's fingers, and when the solemn measure came to a close the President slid across the floor in one graceful, immense pirouette, handing the lady who confronted him, bent nearly to the ground, into her seat.

He used the stick to direct the rooster, which kept time first with one foot and then the other to a tune whistled by its owner, ending with a triple pirouette that was superb.

sang the two girls, pirouetting back into the circle of firelight.

overturn; somersault, somerset; summerset^; culbute^; revulsion; pirouette.

Rotation N. rotation, revolution, spinning, gyration, turning about an axis, turning aound an axis, circulation, roll; circumrotation^, circumvolution, circumgyration^; volutation^, circination^, turbination^, pirouette, convolution.

V. rotate; roll along; revolve, spin; turn round; circumvolve^; circulate; gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, pirouette; twirl, trundle, troll, bowl.

La Soule, La Pirouette, &c.Small Games for Private Society.

It hits one's bosom's tenderest place, To see them pirouetting.

He made a pirouette and stamped his stick playfully.

The evening was decidedly the best yet, as both averred, pirouetting and spinning and romping through one fox trot and one step after another.

" "Hooray!" shouted Bambi, pirouetting madly.

He executed a marvelous pirouette and returned instantly, calling out, "Less spooning in the corners if you pleaseor if it's got to be, let me in!"

Miss Crilly performed a pirouette.

Against the story of Nash and the Duchess of Queensberry, so wholesome and humane, we put that frightful anecdote that Saint-Simon tells of Lauzun's getting the hand of another duchess under his high heel, and pirouetting on it to make the heel dig deeper into the flesh.

But however sprightly and deftly did this charmer pirouette, she could not deny herself the luxury of appearing as a regular actress.

ho!' he continued, with a comical pirouette of triumph, 'he laughs best who laughs last.

I swerve, I dance, I caracoleI pirouette on a wing tip, catching my side slips on the rudder as one plays cup and ball.

I should not have been surprised to see her pirouette over the hills or take to flying.

After pirouetting through Whirlpool Reach, we got as far down as the flats fronting River Peak, above which we anchored near noon.

And the curious thing about Katrin Texel was that though her corporeal part might be a direct inheritance from her Burgomeister father and his substantial brewery, her spirit had been designed for an artful fairy of half her size, in order that it might go pirouetting into airy realms of the imagination.

The hand placed horizontally, the back uppermost pirouetting on the wrist alternately in pronation and supination, thus passing from force to feebleness and from feebleness to force, characterizes irritability.

The father in his banknotes lashed to a ponderous safe was an easy personification of the slavery of wealth, and the pantomime ducks and drakes were simple to understand as symbolizing the career of a spendthrift (though the father was never that); but why, you asked, did the double-faced nurse exhaust all her spare moments and our patience pirouetting about the stage?

Something like an immense bird was hurtling and pirouetting in the air above them.

"Why not next to Napoleon the First, who was a still greater conqueror?" "But no dancer, Monsieur!" replied the ex-god Scamander, with a kind of half pirouette; "whereas the Grand Monarque was the finest dancer of his epoch.