Do we say whirl or whorl

whirl 622 occurrences

The Box Office man told the Programme-girl, The Theatre all was in quite a whirl.

A pair of apaches whirl for one hundred and twenty consecutive seconds to a great bang of cymbals and seventy-five dollars a week.

And so with his mind in a whirl of vague conjecture and apprehension he reached his hotel.

I shut my eyes for a moment and tried to realize all that had happened to me; but nothing save a whirl through my head of disconnected thoughts seemed possible, and some force was upon me to open my eyes again, to see the blank room, the dull light, the vacancy round me in which there was nothing to interest the mind, nothing to please the eye,a blank wherever I turned.

The little woman gave a sudden whirl and hid her face in the pillow.

" Polly was off in a whirl, and for the next half-hour bells rang, wires snapped and buzzed, feet flew, and tongues were busy.

A whirl of high-seasoned, laughing personalities invaded my privacy.

He turned pale, and yet at the same time there was a whirl of fire in his heart.

This whirl of emotion rose and rose in her, went insanely through her brain, and, becoming intolerable, suddenly ceased and left her careless, numb, and hard.

He felt lost in the crowded immensity, a helpless, obscure unit in the whirl of life.

' He wipes the glasses of his spy-glass, he examines again; he seems to see the waves whiten and whirl for a large space around this rock.

At last, jostled by adverse waves, shaken to its centre, the raft begins to whirl around, and something heavier than the shock of the wave comes repeatedly to give it new and rude blows.

And his head began to whirl, and he muttered to himself: Is this a dream, and what does it all mean?

Here and there a horse and rider fell to the ground in a great whirl of sand and dust.

It rose in a whirl of blue linen.

Care refuses to sit behind the horseman, despite the Latin sentence; you leave it among your garments when you plunge into the river, it rolls away from the rolling cricket-ball, the first whirl in the gymnasium disposes of it, and you are left free, as boys and birds are free.

Sleep, when my brain is in a whirl of excitement?

and about, some a million times bigger than this little one, and they all whirl and whirl, the little ones whirling round the big ones and the big ones whirling round still bigger ones, dancing and swinging and going off to some place that no one knows anything about; and some are old and have lost their people; and some are too young to have any people yet;

and about, some a million times bigger than this little one, and they all whirl and whirl, the little ones whirling round the big ones and the big ones whirling round still bigger ones, dancing and swinging and going off to some place that no one knows anything about; and some are old and have lost their people; and some are too young to have any people yet;

She slipped it in and out several times and then idly dropped a few violet petals from the bunch at her belt into the bottle, shaking it about to make them whirl, and then holding it still to watch them settle.

"It looks as though you were telling fortunes," remarked Sahwah, watching the petals alternately whirl and sink, "like tea leaves, you know.

In one of the willows, at the other side of the island, the mysterious bird was trilling from his hiding place, a dizzying shower of notes, which broke at the crescendo of the musical whirl-pool into a plaint as soft and long-sustained as a golden thread stretched in the silence of the night across the river, that seemed to be applauding with its hushed murmur.

At the sight of her I felt my brain in a whirl, and my finger-tips grew icy cold.

And so I'd rather" "Aw, you'll have to go and try it a whirl, anyhow.

We, unsuspecting, imbibed freely the seductive fluids, and soon our heads were in a whirl.

whorl 26 occurrences

"That is my arrow-maker," he cried, showing me a round stone whorl.

In their season, which is after the gilias are at their best, and before the larkspurs are ripe for pollen gathering, every terminal whorl of the lupin sends up its blossom stalk, not holding any constant blue, but paling and purpling to guide the friendly bee to virginal honey sips, or away from the perfected and depleted flower.

How many shells, whorl within whorl, Litter the marges of the sphere With wrack of unregarded pearl, To shape that little thing your ear: Creation, just to make one girl, Hath travailed with exceeding fear.

How many shells, whorl within whorl, Litter the marges of the sphere With wrack of unregarded pearl, To shape that little thing your ear: Creation, just to make one girl, Hath travailed with exceeding fear.

In this arrangement, the leaves of each whorl stand over the spaces of the whorl just below.

In this arrangement, the leaves of each whorl stand over the spaces of the whorl just below.

This is produced by the habit of the tree of throwing out a whorl of imperfect branches just below the union of the main branches with the trunk.

The arrangement of leaves in the bud. WHORL.

Spindle turns on the knees of Necessity: and on the rim of each whorl sits perched a Siren, who goes round with it, hymning a single note; the eight notes together forming one harmony.

Hence they changed to a whorl of salvias (2).

Late in October you may see the yellow or brown foliage of the pines, then ready to fall, surrounding the branches of the previous year's growth, forming a whorl of brown fringe surmounted by a tuft of green leaves of the present year's growth.

Morina (Whorl Flower).An ornamental hardy perennial, which is seldom met with.

The word "cyclone" by itself suggests a ghastly whorl of high vapours, and the addition of "anti" seems to make it even more hostile.

Every ridge-mark, every loop and whorl of the varying patterns was engraved on my memory.

Shell depressed, conical, pale reddish, ornamented with rows of white and brown spots, spirally grooved, ribs slightly granulated; the sutures distinct, impressed, the lower part of the last whorl nearly smooth, the umbilicus white, smooth inside, the edge furnished with a series of granules.

It is entirely smooth, polished, and has the last whorl near the spire slightly concave, edged with a scarcely raised rather nodulous line, the outer lip is very thick, grooved on its inner edge, and the columella is distinctly plaited.

Shell orbicular, nearly trochi-form, white with two pale-brown bands on each whorl; the one near the suture narrow, and the other, placed on the middle of the whorl, broad; whorls five; convex rounded, with numerous close concentric furrows; axis umbilicated; umbilicus rather narrow, deep; aperture rather more than one half the length of the shell; peristome (not formed ?) simple. 99.

Shell orbicular, nearly trochi-form, white with two pale-brown bands on each whorl; the one near the suture narrow, and the other, placed on the middle of the whorl, broad; whorls five; convex rounded, with numerous close concentric furrows; axis umbilicated; umbilicus rather narrow, deep; aperture rather more than one half the length of the shell; peristome (not formed ?) simple. 99.

In one spot there would be nothing, in an adjacent spot a whorl of beets, big and little, crowding and jostling and elbowing each other, like school-boys round the red-hot stove on a winter's morning.

Above floated gold and gray and silver-edged cloudsbelow shone a whorl of dusky, ruddy bronze haze, gradually thickening.

From a basket of blossoming flowers comes the aroma of balsamic benzoin, geranium and the whorl-flowered bent-grass which permeates the room.

154 Prinos verticillatus Whorl-leaved Winter-berry b.l.

31 Disermas Long-spiked ditto c.m. 32 verticillata Whorl-flowered ditto c.m. 33 glutinosa Yellow-flowered ditto c.m. 34 lineata Flax-leaved ditto l.b. 35 Collinsonia canadensis Nettle-leaved Collinsonia c.m.

Tall ditto l.b. 426 Antirrhinum purpureum Purple Toad-flax c.m. 427 - genistifolium Broom-leaved ditto l. 428 - triornithophorum Whorl-leaved ditto l.b.

l.b. 646 Coreopsis verticillata Whorl-leaved Coreopsis c.m. 647 - tripteris Three leaved ditto c.m. 648 - aurea Hemp-leaved ditto c.m.

Do we say   whirl   or  whorl