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Definition of Twirlers
1. twirler [n] - See also: twirler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twirlers
Literary usage of Twirlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1882)
"As the music quickens, so does the rate of rotation, but apparently without any
consciousness on the part of the silent twirlers, whose pale, solemn faces ..."
2. Shooting Adventures, Canine Lore and Sea-fishing Trips by Lewis Clements, Wildfowler (1879)
"There are, however, mechanical twirlers, in which the motive power is a spring.
These twirlers wind up like clocks, and go on until the spring is slack ..."
3. Mosca: A Factual Fiction by Richard Miller (1997)
"The penitentes walked again, to the rasping of the thunder- twirlers, and the
piping of hymns rising to exultation, falling to despair. ..."
4. Campaigning in South Africa: Reminiscences of an Officer in 1879 by William Edward Montague (1880)
"I remember reading a letter from a correspondent in the Transvaal belonging to
a society called, so he said, " Ye Pretoria twirlers " (a very appropriate ..."
5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... nnd again we reach the conclusion that either the carrying of umbrellas and
canes must be prohibited, or the twirlers of them and the active opponents ..."
6. A History of California: The American Period by Robert Glass Cleland (1922)
"... stoughton bitters, silver twirlers and champagne baskets went pell mell into
confusion and down aboard the boat, mixed in with legislators, ..."
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