Looking back at the father, who had stopped twirling the knife, and only stared back at her with cold murder in his eyes, she could not help but feel that the end had truly come.
I tried to hook the gun out with a stick but the wildebeeste swung round and faced me at once, snapping the sticks and twirling them out of my hands with surprising ease and quickness.
So, with his head proudly erect, he went off, twirling his mustaches and followed by the whispers of the servants--whispers which were ready to change into hisses at any moment.
Fondege ferociously twirling his mustaches as usual, together with Kami-Bey, who was conspicuous by reason of his portly form and eternal red fez.
A very temporary "gentleman" second lieutenant leant against the rail twirlingan imperceptible moustache.
Glorious to behold was the sight that burst upon him as he came down through the moat, twirling round and round with the lightness of a straw, to the sweetest music that kept time to his motion.
It may make your back ache occasionally, but you will have the satisfaction of hanging it or twirling it to suit yourself.
On we went, twirlingand twisting, and turning and whirling; couple after couple dropped panting off.
Helmsley's spirit rose up in contempt against the effete dandy as he watched him leaning carelessly against the counter, twirling his thin sandy moustache, and talking to his hostess merely for the sake of offensively ogling her two daughters.
And yet, though he knew not whether he should make his exit by the door or the window, he sat twirling his fingers with the most unconcerned air imaginable.
Bolling sits rigid in the arm chair absently twirling his fingers.
They glance uneasily at the Captain, twirling their fur caps in their hands.
Mussulman angrily, and strode forward as if to strike; but Ned leaped to his feet, and twirling his staff round his head, brought it down with such force on the soldier's wrist that it nearly broke the arm.
Morton, after a pause, the while twirling his eyeglass.
In one hand was always a quill, which, during the lecture, he kept constantly twirling about and crushing.
But he saw only the red tiles of some thousand peaceful houses, and the twirling of a dozen windmill sails.
Twirling his pen, occasional spitting, jerking his foot backward, taken with his dress, gave him a most eccentric appearance in the lecture room.
We remained for a while without speaking, he twirling his hat as at our first interview, I making a show of arranging papers on my desk.
Lord Valleys, twirling his moustache, regarded the guinea-pig without favour; he had rather a dislike for all senseless kinds of beasts.
Sarelli fell back in his seat, twirling his moustaches fiercely.
She reached up, twisted off a blossom and, twirling it in her fingers, said: "I suppose I can call you Jon?
Suddenly twirling his moustaches, he wrung his hands, and burst out: "It is poison.
Well, old sport," said Snorky, twirling the mercifully unsmoked cigar in his fingers.
I beg your pardon," said the young man, who stood on the steps twirling his straw hat round and round in his hands.
He rose and stood, still twirling his hat in his hand.
Marley leaned forward with his elbows on his knees and began twirling his hat in his hands.
So you have been sitting here for the last four hours, twirling your thumbs?
When he had killed his thirtieth partridge he slowly walked back to the farm, where his son and friends found him about four hours later, toasting himself before the fire, his feet on the andirons, and twirling his thumbs.
The heated wind whistles on its way, now and then pauses in a whirl, then dances away twirling its skirt of dust and sand and dry leaves and twigs.
I managed a question or so every five minutes, to which they offered the briefest replies; and then I sat vacantly, twirling my pen, and scratching my head.
Victor felt the boy within him cold to both: and in his youth he had doated on the solitary twirlingspangled lovely Fairy.
Twirling like a top it pass'd The shield of Hector, near the neck his breast 495 Struck full, then plough'd circuitous the dust.
The spool slipped over the stick is grasped by the right hand, and the left hand starts the merry-go-round and keeps it in motion by twirling the stick to which the cardboard strip is fastened.
While the clockwork wheels are spun by twirling them by means of the upper end of the pivots, the tack top is spun by holding the spinning point between the thumb and first finger, as shown in Fig.
If I saw him twirling up a pancake dough in a pizza shop on Broadway, or driving a 5th Avenue bus, or carrying a briefcase into 20 Exchange Place, I wouldn't be surprised.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twirling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: reeling; rolling; spin; spinning; swirling; turning; twirl; whirling
