The victor gives a reluctant last twirl of his tomahawk, then, like the others, he leaves the center ground.

She filled hot water bags automatically, like a machinewater half-way to the top, then one hand clutching the bag's slippery middle while the other, with a deft twist, ejected the air within; a quick twirl of the metal stopper, the bag released, squirming, and, finally, its plump and rufous cheeks wiped dry.

Well, let them'tis their naturetwirl, And Smiths adore their twirlings, Which kill with envy every girl That fingers lace at Urling's, I laugh while I lament to see A fellow, made to measure 'Gainst grenadiers of six feet three, "Die down the dance" with pleasure.

I knew the twirl of the walks, and the pattern of the beds; the rank of hollyhocks that stood up all along the wall, and the poppies breathing out a faint sickly odour in the night.

Far remote on the savannahs I could pick out twirls of smoke rising into the blue weather, the signs of Indian hunting fires.

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.

Then he opened his right hand and closed it, with a kind of insinuating twirl of the fingers, which means "to steal."