awhirl
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awhirl (comparative more awhirl, superlative most awhirl)
- Whirling.
- 1866, Christina Rossetti, The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems,[1], London: Macmillan, page 104:
- […] did you think
I was so fair when we played boy and girl,
Where blue forget-me-nots bloomed on the brink
Of our stream which the mill-wheel sent awhirl?
- 1922, E. R. Eddison, chapter 3, in The Worm Ouroboros[2], New York: Ballantine, published 1952, page 45:
- The music rippled and ran and the dancers danced till the hall was awhirl with the rhythm of their dancing,
- 2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North[3], London: Vintage Books, page 167:
- Dorrigo’s mind was awhirl with how he would get out of Warradale without permission, where he would find a vehicle, where they might secretly meet.