I found the room reeling round in an uncertain way, like a labouring, humming-top. ❋ Unknown (2007)
You've hit it, precisely; I must whirl hither and thither like a perfect humming-top. ❋ Unknown (2000)
I guess she never had to give her humming-top to quiet the baby, and had the paint all sucked off. ❋ Fanny Fern (N/A)
She seems to have no more power of keeping herself in one position or of remaining in one part of the room, or even of being quiet, than a humming-top. ❋ E. R. Billings (N/A)
A suggested name for this whistler is the 'humming-top,' from his habit of describing semi-circles on the piano stool, and 'humming most melodiously.' ❋ James T. Lightwood (N/A)
The earth is a huge oblate or orange-shaped sphere, spinning on its shorter axis like a humming-top, yet at such a rate of speed as to seem standing still; it goes once round in twenty-four hours, its rotation being both the cause and the measure of day and night. ❋ Various (N/A)
'Pon my soul, I'm not sure even now whether it was not a big night bird, for it just swooped by me with about as much noise as a humming-top might make. ❋ G. Sidney Paternoster (N/A)
Might not the child's new-fangled humming-top, which is advertised to dance sixty seconds, be said to dance a minuet? ❋ Various (N/A)
A humming-top on the subject would have been precisely as instructive and convincing. ❋ Various (N/A)
What are you spinning round like a humming-top for? ' ❋ Unknown (1916)
I gave him seven fish-hooks -- all I had -- and made him take them; and Seppi gave him his new knife and a humming-top painted red and yellow -- atonements for swindles practised upon him formerly, as I learned later, and probably no longer remembered by Nikolaus now. ❋ Unknown (1916)
The nurse had grown woefully heavy about the shoulders -- which put a fearful strain on the stitches of her bodice! and gave her the appearance of a gigantic humming-top! ❋ Eleanor Gates (1913)
Drink, because the stars are cruel and the world as idle as a humming-top. ❋ Unknown (1905)
Now it had steadied itself in the intensity of its speed; the little humming-top was sleeping. ❋ May Sinclair (1904)
My head's goin 'round like a humming-top, sure enough. ❋ Gerhart Hauptmann (1904)
Boys play at casting a humming-top into the midst of others on the ground, and if well aimed it scatters them prettily. ❋ Unknown (1898)
For him society is a game, -- a gay humming-top which he spins on the palm of his hand for his own private amusement. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)
