"Gyrate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... certainly the appearance of violent whirling motion. One would say that the whole glowing mass had been spun about with tremendous velocity, or that it had been set rotating so rapidly that it had become the victim of "centrifugal force,'' one huge fragment having broken loose and started to gyrate off into space. Closer inspection shows that in addition to the principal focus there are various smaller condensations scattered through the mass. These are conspicuous in the spirals. Some of them are stellar points, and but for the significance of their ...
— Curiosities of the Sky • Garrett Serviss
... subpafilego. Gunpowder pulvo. Gunsmith armilfaristo. Gunnery pafilado. Gush sxpruci. Gust ekventego. Gut intestotubo. Gutter defluilo. Gutter-spout defluilo. Gymnast gimnastikisto. Gymnasium gimnastikejo. Gypsum gipso. Gyrate ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... the exulting shout of those who whirl unresistingly in the vortex—'Does not wisdom cry and understanding put forth her voice?' behold the 'progress of the species' and the 'march of mind!' And, on the other side, the contemptuous murmur of those who will be overwhelmed rather than gyrate against their will, they know not whither—'What meaneth this bleating of ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various
... fundamental unity, an unity of so-called "mental faculties" as well as of bodily structure. And this is the jelly-speck. He scoffs at the popular idea that man is the great central figure round which all things gyrate like marionettes; in fact, the anthropocentric era of Draper, which, strange to say, lives by the side of the telescope and the microscope. As man is of recent origin, and may end at an early epoch of the macrocosm, so before his birth all things revolved round ...
— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton
... foot of the last hill, and they never could satisfy Miss Sandford where they had been, nor what they had seen, nor how they had missed us; and Dermot invented for the nonce a legend about a fairy in the hill, who made people gyrate round it in utter oblivion of all things; thus successfully diverting the attention of Miss Sandford, who took it all seriously. Yes, she certainly was ...
— My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph • Charlotte M. Yonge |
