Whip Top

M. fissurata is like a whip-top in shape, the root being thick and woody, and the tubercles arranged in a thick layer, spreading from the centre, rosette-like. ❋ W. Watson (N/A)

Playing whip-top alone soon gets to be monotonous, but where there are two a "fight" can be arranged for. ❋ Alfred Rochefort (N/A)

The barbarous custom of whipping martyrs at the stake is perpetuated by the game of whip-top. ❋ Percy B. Green (N/A)

As the brother of De Quincey said, when proposing to stand on the ceiling, head downwards, and be spun there like a whip-top, thus overcoming the attraction of gravitation by the mere rapidity of revolution, "If you can keep it up for an instant, you can keep it up all day." ❋ Various (N/A)

Capable both of virtuous resolutions and of fits of apathetic obstinacy, His Majesty is usually the whip-top of competitive advisers; and his conduct is so unstable as to wear at times an appearance of treachery which would surprise himself if he could see it. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

Many wives give up their homes for these public residences so that they may give their entire time to operas, theatres, balls, receptions and levees, and they are in a perpetual whirl, like a whip-top, spinning round and round and round very prettily until it loses its equipoise and shoots off into a tangent. ❋ Unknown (1867)

At last, he got into the ripps off of Johnston's pint, and they wheeled him right round and round like a whip-top. ❋ Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1830)

The resurrectionists will get her body, and the primary class in the other world will play whip-top with the rest of her. " ❋ George Alfred Townsend (1877)

Guy: [Waddup]. Friend: Wassup how was your weekend? Guy: Fucking bomb. Friend: Why what happend? Guy: I tried out the [Whipped Cream Tuffle Top]. Friend: [Niceee].. ❋ Stevie G. And Kyndra G. (2007)