8 examples of teetotums in sentences

Certain toys seem specially suited to give hand control, e.g. a Noah's Ark, where the small animals are to be set out carefully, tops or teetotums and tiddlywinks, at which some little children become proficient.

"We were spinning the teetotum yesterday and it did not spin well so we made new ones.

He gave this a last suggestive kick and then dangled there in midair, spinning around like a teetotum.

At the booking-office, when we tried to book the ponies, the babu in charge lost his presence of mind and turned round and round like a teetotum.

The spontaneous festivals of every recess-time would then rival those German public-rooms, where it is said you may see a whole company waltzing like teetotums, with the windows wide open, at four o'clock in the afternoon.

The Minister's powerful voice had ceased, but he had set them going as a man might twirl a teetotum; and in five or six seconds one of the menit was Roger, the young giantburst forth with a cry, and began to ejaculate what he called his "experience."

"Don't you see him twirling round like a teetotum, with Marchesa Amici 'of the swan-neck?'"

" Cool, indeed, and the room whirling round and round, like a teetotum!

8 examples of  teetotums  in sentences