A simple way to do this was to twirl one stick between the palms of the hands, like a drill, while pressing it against a piece of softer wood.
To weld two lengths of, glass tubing together, heat the end of a tube and insert the point of a piece of charcoal in the opening, and twirl it about until the end of the tube has a considerable flare.
To wind the string upon the reel, all that is necessary is to lay one end of the reel stick in the bend of the left arm and twirl the other end between the fingers of the right hand.
They enjoyed seeing him stand on his front feet, or on his head with his hind feet kicking the air, but they enjoyed still more seeing him put on the wooden collar of a convict and twirl it around his neck.
His last trick was to sit down upon his haunches, stick up one of his hind feet, and twirl a knife six feet long upon it as he had twirled the carrying-pole upon his head.
Why, they bake them in a pan too, and twirlit round and round, and then throw it up and run out of doors.
Then she'd twirl it round and round, and suddenly throw the cake over.
Myself above them from a rising ground Guide the sharp stake, and twirl it round and round.
The hermit also told how the gods procured the Water of Life (Amrita) by churning the ocean, saying they used Mount Meru as a dasher, and a huge serpent as the rope whereby to twirl it around.
Limberleg knelt on the edge of the rock and began to twirl the stick between her hands.
I want you to gather little tendrils of dry moss and watch beside me while I twirl the stick.
Set the top spinning with a twirl of the fingers; then hold the magnet over the nail, and the top will leap up to the magnet and there continue to spin, suspended in air.
Twirl the lower piece rapidly between the palms of both hands, and suddenly let it go.
So they prophesied as they tripped home to their pipes and hot rum, with a twirl of their elegant canes, a shake of their exquisite heads, and a Whack row-de-dow from their irreverent lips.
In order to supply the correct twirl to this note of interrogation, Charles flung the little bookseller to the farthest corner of his little back parlour, at the same time arming himself with half a dozen fresh volumes.
He searched for a good hard stick and a piece of wood upon which to turn or twirl it with his hands.
Having found the best materials at hand, he began to twirl the stick.
Then he opened his right hand and closed it, with a kind of insinuating twirl of the fingers, which means "to steal.
I moved to come toward him, but he raised one hand and began to twirl his great gray moustache fiercely; whereat I resumed my former position of safety.
Now observe that when I twirl the disc it seems to attract A.
His slippered feet like lightning flew; the bells upon his robes rang out, and he would twirl upon his toes until his many-colored baggy robes stood out and he seemed like a brilliant human top.
Then Punchinello could not refuse, and he would whirl and twirl again until he was too weary to do more.
Then Punchinello bounded lightly up the ladder, and leaping into the room, began to dance and twirl about to please this little child.
Ever since I was big enough to twirl a pan or rock a cradle!
Jim, the true prospector, who had often seen wealth or poverty decided by the twirl of a pan, stood immovable.
A; a12] twirl the beater in the palms to beat a chocolate drink.
Alluding to the theatrical people, he moralises on the fate of players:-- See the strange twirl of times; when such poor things Outlive the dates of parliaments or kings!
Indeed, she had done little for many years excepttwirl the distaff in her corner by the fire.
The others participated now by a twirlof a finger, now by the swift repetition of a whole syllogism, now by an indescribable system of gestures, enacting, in dumb show, the whole logical process involved in a nice point.
Zagloba began totwirl his mustaches: "At him to whom all are hurrying like ants to honey; but it does not beseem me to mention his name, for I have always hated boastfulness.
How they torture a piece of red-tape, how they twirl their eye-glasses or spectacles, and how they hitch at their garments, as if they momentarily expected them to desert their finely proportioned figures.
Always twirl one of those revolving book-cases when you visit a scholar's library.
She--gave the music-stool a twirl or two and fluffed down on to it like a whirl of soap-suds in a hand-basin.
