Clegg's head is spinning faster than a spinning-top toy. ❋ Glyn Davies (2008)
Answer: look no further than ST-Clegg spinning-top Clegg. ❋ Glyn Davies (2008)
When I was tired of reading, after a whole morning in the house, I would throw my plaid across my shoulders and set out; my body, which in a long spell of enforced immobility had stored up an accumulation of vital energy, was now obliged, like a spinning-top wound and let go, to spend this in every direction. ❋ Unknown (2003)
We paid our bill and got on the local elevator down from the spinning-top restaurant. ❋ Patterson, James, 1947- (1993)
This steadiness may vary during the flight of the projectile, as the shot may be unsteady for some distance after leaving the muzzle, afterwards steadying down, like a spinning-top. ❋ Various (N/A)
Dinky-Dunk came back from Buckhorn yesterday with a lot of the foolishest things you ever clapped eyes on -- a big cloth elephant that grunts when you pull its tail, a musical spinning-top, a high-chair, and a projecting lantern. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
The children had scattered like marbles from a spinning-top. ❋ Algernon Blackwood (1910)
The man upon the threshold was not like a man; vastly pot-bellied, so that the dingy white of his shirt was only narrowly framed by the black of his jacket, swollen in body to the comic point, collarless, with a staircase of unshaven chins crushed under his great, jovial, black-mustached face, the creature yet moved on little feet like a spinning-top on its point, buoyantly, with the gait of a tethered balloon. ❋ Perceval Gibbon (1902)
Sometimes he fell, like a spinning-top, from sheer merriment. ❋ Unknown (1898)
Sometimes he fell, like a spinning-top, and from sheer merriment. ❋ Arthur Rackham (1898)
And there arose to my mind Benny's fritters, and Benny's spinning-top that had cost me all ❋ 1859-1916 Sholem Aleichem (1887)
"That's what a spinning-top is for," explained Benny, putting into his purse my last few "_groschens_." ❋ 1859-1916 Sholem Aleichem (1887)
It was a spinning-top -- a curious, living top with a pointed cap and earlocks. ❋ 1859-1916 Sholem Aleichem (1887)
There wasn't a thing in the world Moshe-for-once could not make -- a house, or a clock, or a machine, a lamp, a spinning-top, a tap, a mirror, a cage, and what not. ❋ 1859-1916 Sholem Aleichem (1887)
I afterwards saw all these monitors covered with indentations like spinning-top moulds or saucers. ❋ William Elliot Griffis (1885)
There was one waiter in especial who was the most accomplished social being I have ever encountered; from morning till night he kept up an inarticulate murmur of urbanity, like the hum of a spinning-top. ❋ Henry James (1879)
In thy eyes too, deep under their shaggy brows, and looking out so still and dreamy, have we not noticed gleams of an ethereal or else a diabolic fire, and half-fancied that their stillness was but the rest of infinite motion, the _sleep_ of a spinning-top? ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
