Awhirl

Dick Stephenson made no further protests, his brain awhirl as he raced to the stables. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Rising to see what the commotion was about - having, for reasons of his own, dismissed all his servants for the night - Wilde was confronted by several men dressed as clowns who shouted fragmented lines from Lear's A Book of Nonsense at him, enclosed him in a circle and danced around him until his mind, so he himself says, had been set awhirl with chaos. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These are handmade in Austria from a single piece of knot-free wood you'll pass them on to your kids, and are as beautiful at rest as they are awhirl. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He took another sip of (by now cooling) coffee and continued reading, though his mind wasn't in it: his head was awhirl with images of Lucy, and he kept returning to the night before, to the words they spoke to each other, to their kiss like a seal of the future ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

If you are deeply disturbed by the sinister implications, both corporate and gustatory, imagine my shock as I reeled out of the supermarket, my mind awhirl with the grisliest of possibilities, only to come upon this terrible scene at the docks, mere minutes away (click to enlarge): ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or a syndication of gut awhirl in a shell of mother-of-pearl. ❋ John Olson (2011)

His mind was already awhirl with ways to bypass the pacifistic Thrall and the crotchety old Cairne and get the Horde what it needed. ❋ Christie Golden (2010)

She rested her chin on her hand and stared out the window, her mind awhirl. ❋ Karen Hawkins (2010)

His mind awhirl, Scott wandered through the laboratory and climbed to his old haunt on the rooftop. ❋ Johnny Pez (2010)

A darkling plain curved visibly away to a horizon that, at man-height, was a bare three kilometers distant; higher up in the cabin, you could see farther, but that only sharpened the sense of being on a minute ball awhirl among the stars. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His head was awhirl with what he'd just overheard. ❋ Sugu Althomsons (2010)

Arms and legs locked, with your head all awhirl, dead yet awake. ❋ Hradzka (2009)

His mind awhirl, Murrow said, "I'd have to go back to the studio and get a tape recorder." ❋ Johnny Pez (2009)

Mostly Max. 2001-07-03 1: 57 p.m. My mind was all awhirl Friday. ❋ Ana-ng (2009)

KING: Good evening, it's been quite a day and night; Washington still awhirl with all kinds of inaugural parties and celebrations. ❋ Unknown (2009)