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Thirty feet up he tilted it forward and accelerated, and then he was circling the ship like a wild hawk, twice, gyring upward, waving, and he broke away off to the southeast and out of sight.

The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

I'm not sure what happened this morning -- probably something to do with some strange machinations on the web and a confluence of nasty weather and migrating servers, not to mention the slithy toves gyring and gimbelling in the wabe -- but I was unable to post anything this morning, so that's why you see this instead of the usual Friday Blogaround, which I hope to get to during lunch.

April 2005 2005

Thirty feet up he tilted it forward and accelerated, and then he was circling the ship like a wild hawk, twice, gyring upward, waving, and he broke away off to the southeast and out of sight.

The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

Hundreds of seagulls climbing one narrow beam, gyring, diving, climbing again, feeding on the insects also drawn to the light.

The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

Hundreds of seagulls climbing one narrow beam, gyring, diving, climbing again, feeding on the insects also drawn to the light.

The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

There has been no gyring and gimbling from DaveScot.

The Best of UDreamOfJanie So Far « UDreamOfJanie 2006

The forces drew much of the plasma into an accretion disk, a maelstrom gyring about the black hole, to plunge at last down the throat of the vortex.

Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

There was a stirring in the room, a black, hot gyring in front of his face, and he could see in his mind a black blade, as slender and wicked-looking as a scalpel.

Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992

She saw no anima there, only the gyring of emotions, dead weight like a corpse at the gibbet.

The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

A gale arose, gyring and shrieking through the skeletal bridge, so that Celeste stumbled back and was thrown to her knees.

The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983