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whirligig

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whirligig
1. any spinning toy, such as a top
2. another name for windmill (the toy)


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While the Miss Schlegels were together he had felt them scarcely human--a sort of admonitory whirligig.
But what mainly occasioned a righteous indignation was, that the scoundrelly popinjay, while he cut a fandango here, and a whirligig there, did not seem to have the remotest idea in the world of such a thing as keeping time in his steps.
"Prascovia," began the Grandmother, "is what I have just heard through a side wind true--namely, that this fool of a stepfather of yours is going to marry that silly whirligig of a Frenchwoman--that actress, or something worse?
 
 
 
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