307 examples of twirling in sentences

Redfern, the next man, had hardly taken his place at the wicket when a sharp click, the glitter of bails twirling in the air, and a Wraxby shout of "Well bowled!" announced his fate; while ten minutes later Rowland, one of the mainstays of the home team, was caught in a most provoking manner at cover-point.

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 two minutes Maudie was twirling about with the handy gentleman, who seemed as accomplished with his toes as he was reputed to be with his fingers.

"And me a thief, master?" sighed Roger, "I that am thy man, that would but have borrowed" "Peace!" cried Beltane, "hencebegone, and leave me to my thoughts!" Hereupon Walkyn turned and strode away, twirling his axe, but Roger went slow-footed and with head a-droop what time Beltane frowned into the fire, his scowl blacker than ever.

We made a picturesque sight, wending single-file along the shore, climbing over rocks and logs,Joe, who brought up the rear, twirling his canoe in his hands as if it were a feather, in places where it was difficult to get along without a burden.

"How, now!" cried he, twirling his staff betwixt his fingers, "would you four stout fellows set upon one man?

Neither was it one of the new dances which, like a tarantula-bite, set every one a twirling, nor stage madness, nor yet that American lecturing influenza which yearly sweeps over the land.

" "Do you know," observed Carr, twirling his eyeglass and twisting his mustache, "that I'm beginning not to care what my family think!...

When he was nearer he desisted from twirling, shook a fat forefinger at Margaret and laughed.

"You lie, and you know that you lie!" answered Campbell, twirling slowly his long moustache, as he always did when choking down indignation.

] MEPHISTOPHELES (twirling the whisk which he holds in his hand, and striking among the glasses and pots) Dash!

He was twirling his mustache with his coarse, blunt fingers, and there was a superciliousness in his manner that was almost disgusting.

There he slumped uninvited into the first easy chair and sat twirling his sombrero on his finger-tips, obviously well satisfied with himself and the events of the evening.

This one was left, twirling her foot, and stretching out her hands in a dreary sort of ecstasy, with no one to respond.

"Very well," sputtered Marrin, and turned, twirling his cane, and made an upright exit.

"I'm driffin' 'em off et cossdriffin' 'em off et coss," he whispered, speaking rapidly, and waving his hands about, oriental fashion, the palms turned outward and the fingers twirling; this peculiar gesture seemed intended to indicate the cheapness of his wares.

She sunk a dutiful curtsy, and stood twirling her thumbs, while the Doctor surveyed her gravely.

On a stone by the roadside sat Sinis himself; and when he saw Theseus coming, he ran to meet him, twirling a long rope in his hands and crying out: "Welcome, welcome, dear prince!

Twirling his grizzly moustaches and humming to himself, Easelmann turned back.

The sun was setting now, and the wasps were coming home for good; their wings in the golden light made twirling haloes about them.

The baton twirling series.

(The Baton twirling series, v.4)

He went to school until he was eighteen and served his time in the army with the Seventh Artillery at Besançon; and he describes his gay time there, while the sleeping girl makes gestures of twirling an imaginary moustache.

Then was the auspicious moment for Miss Wilkeson to have retired with dignity; but she stood at the door, twirling the fatal scissors in her hand, and waiting either to say something which did not come spontaneously, or to have something said to her.

He has been in furen parts forever and a day; his wife has looked for him, a-twirling her thumb and fingers, every day for ten years.

307 examples of  twirling  in sentences