"The whirligigs are my favorites (to make)," he said. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Great dragon-flies hawked after flies; while on the surface of still pools "whirligigs" (Gyrinidae) wheeled about in mazy gyrations, just as they are seen to do at home. ❋ Thomas Belt (1855)
Amongst other resemblances, there are moments when, to a quiet contemplator, it suggests the image of one of those rotatory entertainments commonly seen in fairs, and known by the name of "whirligigs," or "roundabouts," in which each participator of the pastime, seated on his hobby, is always apparently in the act of pursuing some one before him, while he is pursued by some one behind. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
Create old-time Independence Day decorations such as whirligigs, parachutes and American flags, and help make ice cream. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"whirligigs," "whirl-wigs," or "shiners," as they are called, should perform their rounds so closely together, without sometimes coming into collision. ❋ W. Houghton (N/A)
"whirligigs," or "roundabouts," in which each participator of the pastime, seated on his hobby, is always apparently in the act of pursuing some one before him, while he is pursued by some one behind. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
Pratt and Judkyn acquired artifacts such as wrought-iron weathervanes depicting American Indians with bows and arrows; whirligigs shaped like policemen, whose long arms flailed in the wind; pretty duck decoys; tiny, 3,000-year-old stone carvings of birds from the Great Lakes; and Indian jewelry in silver and turquoise. ❋ Richard Holledge (2011)
People pay good money for table-sized, tin original Vollis Simpson whirligigs. ❋ Mark L. Walberg (2012)
On top of 30-foot telephone poles are at least a dozen giant iron whirligigs--all created by Vollis Simpson. ❋ Mark L. Walberg (2012)
He is passionate about...wait for it...whirligigs. ❋ Mark L. Walberg (2012)
The albatrosses are docile, barely moving on their nests, but the penguins are wound up little whirligigs. ❋ Margie Goldsmith (2011)
The work, however, covers the expanding range of our electronic landscape and is far from academically stultifying, taking in randomly generated film clips, a universe populated by endlessly self-fertilising whirligigs, a display of the steadily diminishing number of oil barrels supposedly left in the world, and a covert surveillance set-up that samples visitors' identities as unwilling actors in a restaging of Harold Pinter's 1962 play The Lover. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Not only does he have a shed full of about a hundred handmade brightly colored whirligigs for sale, he has taken his passion to enormous heights. ❋ Mark L. Walberg (2012)
As if to underscore the contrast between their traditional way of life and impending consumer culture, (which is coming to India just like everywhere else), the city streets and roadsides of South India are filthy with snack bags, plastic wrap, grocery bags, drink bottles, and all manner of cheap, broken semi-disposable consumer goods ranging from flip-flops to whirligigs to suitcases. ❋ Unknown (2010)
[Stop] being [such a] [whirligig] ❋ AIDSwarrior (2022)
3 friends from a organisation [shagging] one of the wifes together n then get clothes [pegs] on her nipples n more. Making a [whirligig] ❋ Dale The Whirligig (2021)