Citations:whirligig


 * 1600-1, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
 * And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.


 * 1844 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Artist of the Beautiful
 * "Would I not? to be sure I would!" replied Annie Hovenden, lightly laughing. "Come; explain to me quickly what is the meaning of this little whirligig, so delicately wrought that it might be a plaything for Queen Mab. See! I will put it in motion."


 * 1892 - James Sulley, "Is Man the Only Reasoner?" Popular Science, February 1892
 * The "whirligig of time" may be said to be bringing the much-neglected brutes an ample revenge.


 * 1917 - L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
 * Button-Bright: If we once get over these mountains, we could probably get along all right.
 * Dorothy: True enough. So we must find some way, of course, to get past these whirligig hills. But how?


 * 1924 - "How it Strikes a Contemporary: Mr. Belloc's Poems", Punch and Judy.
 * However that may be, I feel quite confident in asserting, with all the possibilities of change of taste before me, and knowing what the whirligig of time can do, and how sharp and how sudden revolutions of mind and taste may be, that in Mr. Belloc's volume of verse there are poems made of the kind of stuff that endures as long as any verse endures.


 * 1925 - G. E. Van Horn, "A Skating Whirligig", Popular Mechanics, February 1925
 * The skating whirligig can be used in a number of different ways, and once it is set up in one corner of the lake or river, it will give sport to skates throughout the season.


 * 1941 - "Tobacco Tin Whirligig Answers Questions", Popular Science, July 1941
 * The tobacco-tin whirligig amplifies unconscious muscular movements on the part of the operators, and makes these visible.


 * 1949 - "Philly Phaddle", Billboard, December 24, 1949.
 * George Skinner does an unusual video show on WPTZ titled Whirligig. Stint, in a variety format, takes its name from an optical-electronic device which translates the sound impulses of the music played on the show into intricate geometric designs on the screen.


 * 1986 - James Wolcott, "Scratch Shot", Texas Monthly, December 1986.
 * It's when the movie becomes Scorsese's whirligig that everything goes awry.


 * 2007 - Rajiva Wijesinha, Human Rights and Political Agendas in Geneva - 28th September 2007
 * And thus, it is hoped, Sri Lanka will be isolated, the economy will collapse, drums will roll and the prince of peace will return to the throne. And then the whirligig of destruction will start again, the decimation of non-LTTE Tamils, the stockpiling of weapons, the building of bunkers in cleared and uncleared areas will recommence, while the crocodile tears will dry and we will be back to the jolly camaraderie of 2002 / 2003 that the country has so conclusively rejected in two consecutive elections.