| 单词 | spinning top |
| 例句 | He showed that, provided a stationary rotating black hole had an axis of symmetry, like a spinning top, its size and shape would depend only on its mass and rate of rotation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I watch them turn like colorful spinning tops. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She'll come right back, though, like one of them spinning tops. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Inside was what looked like a miniature glass spinning top. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z A spinning top which is beginning to lose its spin slowly describes circles with its highest point before falling down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z On his desk stood what looked like a large, cracked, glass spinning top; Harry recognized it at once as a Sneakoscope, because he owned one himself, though it was much smaller than Moody’s. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Other times, Bit, Francy, John John, and Trista would challenge people to quarter wars, which is when two people stand quarters up on a desk or a table and spin them like spinning tops. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z It consisted of a tin man mounted on a spinning top. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At first, he couldn’t figure out the purpose of a dreidel—a four-sided spinning top that’s played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He bought a souvenir for his son Howard—a tin man mounted on a spinning top. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For Sul Ross there were several wooden pull toys and a spinning top. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Scattered everywhere are accouterments for esoteric gentlemanly pursuits like falconry, backgammon, whittling and spinning tops in leather, horsehair, Donegal tweed and hand-turned bronze. | Toys for Boys at ICFF 2013-05-20T16:51:23Z It's a beautiful object, like a perpetually spinning top, not a living organism. Inception: Whose Mind Is It, Anyway? 2010-07-14T22:00:00Z And the spinning top, one of those old painted tin ones with a plunger you pump to get it going, and then it makes a hollow whirring sound. TV review: The Killing III; Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane; The Secret of Crickley Hall; Him & Her 2012-11-18T22:30:02Z The breakup of his marriage becomes the spinning top on which the action and conflict turns as much as Mort's death. 'This Is Where I Leave You' is a fractious family affair 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z People smile when they get into his Spun chairs, objects like spinning tops that make you feel as if they're about to tip you out, but never do. Heatherwick Studio; Serpentine Gallery Pavilion – review 2012-06-02T23:05:42Z But being twirled around by a stranger as if you’re a spinning top takes some getting used to. In Arlington, a sure-footed way to make some moves on the dance floor 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The world of the perpetually distracted - like spinning tops, a lot of motion, a lot of action, but spinning in a circle, going nowhere, albeit quickly and with a lot of fanfare... Vacation Sabotage: Don’t Let It Happen to You! 2012-06-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Soper’s setting takes a dryly literal approach, with recorded sounds of a spinning top mixing with scrambled phrases and her own live, fragmented, recitation. Review: Conjuring the Splintered Self With Electronics and Voice 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The black curtains over the six ground-floor windows rose, revealing rocket ships on pistons, kaleidoscopes and a spinning top. 9 Months. 100 People. Inside the Making of a Holiday Window 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z In the second, the branching headdress holds a collection of old-fashioned toy metal spinning tops and noisemakers. Nick Cave Goes Underground 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z One recurring motif of his new exhibition, for instance, are spinning tops, which he said represented a desire to find “balance” in his political positions. A German Painter’s New Rule: ‘Never Answer a Critic’ 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Mumbling a little, Eilish wheeled around the stage, like a spinning top about to give out, and then hiked up her shorts, which, baggy and long, were messing with her torque. Billie Eilish and the Changing Face of Pop 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Or picture an image presented in the film of a spiraling staircase the color of a watermelon Jolly Rancher, shot from above so that it resembles a spinning top. “Manifesto”: A manifesto on manifestos starring 12 Cate Blanchetts 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z But I didn’t want to do a conversation about “Inception” or explain whether the spinning top falls over at the end or not — that kind of thing. Christopher Nolan objects to Warner Bros. release plan, but he’s happy you can watch ‘Tenet’ at home now 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z I don’t remember much from the meeting other than Mr. Scott’s flowery vest, shorts and palpable physical presence — he reminded me of a spinning top — which instilled the meeting with an intense, nervous vibrance. An Appraisal: Tony Scott Made Movies as a Maximalist 2012-08-20T21:30:32Z "Topography of Self Tracking," while it's unmistakably from the same hand, is more unstable in shape, resembling a spinning top caught at the moment when it's about to topple over. A nicely orchestrated 'exaggeration of data' 2012-01-05T21:47:04Z The actors are all deaf, and they rest their cheeks and chins on a big table, which stretches out to the audience, to feel the vibration of a spinning top. Richard Nelson’s New Play Closes a Chapter of Theater History 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z The first time I met Flo she was whirling around like a spinning top to a Paul Simon track at a party I was DJing at. Watch Florence + the Machine cover Talking Heads 2012-05-21T10:06:49Z In front of a dictaphone, Chassagne needs to gather momentum, like a spinning top. Arcade Fire: 'It's a lot easier to get smaller' 2011-02-10T21:36:01Z “We find equations that describe lots of different kinds of physical systems,” Mr. Grinspun explained, “the shape of a cable on a bridge, a spinning top, cilia.” Perfecting Animation, via Science 2010-12-29T23:11:28Z "They can rotate, and just like a spinning top slows down over time and loses that energy in its rotation, a rotating black hole can also lose energy to its surroundings." Galactic 'lightsabers': Answering longstanding questions about jets from black holes 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Last year’s inductees were the spinning top, Masters of the Universe action figures and the Lite-Brite. Fans push Fisher-Price Corn Popper into toy HOF, with NERF, Cabbage Patch Kids, baseball cards 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z In one watercolor, a townhouse is rendered atop a child’s spinning top. Artist Alexandre Arrechea on architecture's hidden stories and that Black Sabbath ballet 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Roundish in shape like a spinning top, Bennu orbits the sun every 14 months, while rotating every four hours. NASA spacecraft delivering biggest sample yet from an asteroid 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z "In Japan we make spinning tops from acorns with toothpicks. The government wouldn't think to check that. We were asked by some mothers to measure the radiation levels at their local park." Facts are up against fear ahead of Fukushima water release 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z How do you tell a soaring, spinning top to slow down? Ilia Malinin, figure skating’s quadg0d, is ready for his next big jump 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Cohen likens it to a spinning top — when the polar vortex is strong, that band of air spins in a tight circle. Scientists say Arctic warming could be to blame for blasts of extreme cold 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Cars, even stationary ones, slid like spinning tops down Seattle’s hilly streets. Worst ice in a decade leaves Seattle area shut down, immobile 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Some scientists have compared it to a spinning top. What Is the Polar Vortex? And Other Cold-Weather Climate Questions 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z From previous radar observations, astronomers had a hazy idea that the larger body would be shaped like a spinning top. ‘Holy $@*%!’ Science captures behind-the-scenes reactions to asteroid-smashing mission 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Just as the axis of a rapidly spinning top wobbles slowly in a circle, so the axis of Earth wobbles in a 26,000-year cycle. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z They twisted through the air like spinning tops and flipped as if gravity no longer applied. New events at Beijing Olympics push extreme sports limits, promote gender equity 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Entering a clearing you confront a Demonic Forest Spirit, a monster with four razor-like tentacles that bears a resemblance to a spinning top. Review | ‘Death’s Door’: A clever and fun Zelda homage 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z But just as a spinning top can start to wobble and drift if it bumps into something, the vortex can be disrupted. What Is the Polar Vortex? And Other Cold-Weather Climate Questions 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z In one instance, Navy pilots caught sight of an aircraft that looked like a spinning top hovering 30,000 feet high in the East Coast. Details leak from highly anticipated U.S. government UFO report 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z If you have ever watched a spinning top wobble, you observed a similar kind of motion. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Stratospheric warming events are a known, but not guaranteed, trigger for knocking the polar vortex off balance, like flicking a spinning top, forcing it to spin more slowly and erratically. The polar vortex is splitting in two, which may lead to weeks of wild winter weather 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z The European Space Agency's Gaia satellite looks like a spinning top hat, but it's an example of exquisite engineering. Gaia 'discovery machine' updates star catalogue 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z To use the spinning top analogy, “it’s like if it started banging into things,” he said. What Is the Polar Vortex? And Other Cold-Weather Climate Questions 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The icy bodies were propelled into that ring with far from circular orbits, making up an unstable system—much like a wobbly, precariously spinning top. Planet Nine Could Be a Mirage 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z From a distance they look like spinning tops. Come for the princesses and stay for the ... interpretive dance? Disneyland's new parade ups the art ante 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Researchers observed the motion -- like that of a spinning top -- in the nucleus of 187Au, which wobbles because of its odd number of protons and neutrons. Daily briefing: Step inside Japan’s trio of big-physics experiments 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Inspired by a child's spinning top toy, Serson wondered if he could create an artificial horizon - something that would stay level, even as a ship lurched and swayed around it. What do drones and GPS owe to a 1744 shipwreck? 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z “It gets very granular,” he says, but explains it anyway: every planet wobbles on its axis like a spinning top, a phenomenon called the precession of perihelion. A Geological "Orrery" Could Reveal Planetary Dynamics in Deep Time 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z They are comparable in size, rich in carbon and shaped like spinning tops. Asteroid mission exploring a 'rubble pile' 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Merchants were walking through the crowds, hawking toys for children, spinning tops that burst into L.E.D. color as they helicoptered up. “The Frog King” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The Japanese tradition of carving Edo-style spinning tops was thought to be lost — but a dedicated artisan kept it alive. Japanese spinning tops tell stories, aim for playfulness 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z He’d started umpiring as a teenager in Eugene, splitting time between baseball and his job as a disc jockey spinning top 40 records at KBDF-AM. No longer behind a mask, Eugene umpire is being recognized 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Or will life arise on worlds that spin straight up and down like spinning tops or on their sides like a rotisserie chicken? Thursday’s Summer Solstice and the Search for Life in the Galaxy 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Instead, she gets a small basket that contains all her most precious possessions — a doll, a Minions tin with some cars, a yo-yo and a spinning top — and plays happily on the stark white floor. Can you declutter if you have kids? This Japanese dad says you can. 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Other trends noted in the analysis were “bottle flip” and “fidget spinner”, the three-legged spinning top that has become this summer’s playground essential. Boggle Trump to Trumplestiltskin: Donald inspires new children's slang 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z This story is like a spinning top, impossible to know which way it will next turn. Trump team 'incidentally monitored' after election - BBC News 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The latest is a baby pool, tossed within his pool, which Rialto swishes around in, quick as a spinning top. Things are going swimmingly for Rialto the rescued sea otter 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z In the next minute, Kyrie Irving, a spinning top of a guard, hit a fall-back-baby 3- pointer in the face of Curry, and that was more or less that. A Long-Sought Title Belongs to LeBron James 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Earth turns around an axis like a giant spinning top. Climate Change Is Moving the North Pole The moons also wobble like "spinning tops," thanks to the gravitational pulls of both Pluto and Charon. Pluto may have two ice volcanoes near its south pole 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z A panel of experts picked the inductees from a field of 12 finalists that also included the spinning top, coloring book, Wiffle Ball, American Girl dolls, Battleship, Jenga, PLAYMOBIL, scooter and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Puppet, Twister, Super Soaker make National Toy Hall of Fame, beat Wiffle ball, coloring book 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The inductees were chosen over nine other finalists: the spinning top, coloring book, Wiffle Ball, American Girl dolls, Battleship, Jenga, PLAYMOBIL, scooter and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Puppet, Twister, Super Soaker make Toy Hall of Fame 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z They were chosen from among 12 finalists: the spinning top, coloring book, Wiffle Ball, puppet, American Girl dolls, Battleship, Jenga, PLAYMOBIL, the scooter, Super Soaker, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Twister. AP-NY—New York News Coverage Advisory, NY 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The children’s song, celebrating a spinning top, is typically sung at Hanukkah. South Windsor schools probe taunt of Jews at soccer game 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Some sports were lost for a while but are fashionable once again, such as in Spain where little children are spinning tops again. AP PHOTOS: In digital world, the allure of simple games endears 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The idea was to attach differently colored cards to the top and then spin it, switching one card for another, until the color of the spinning top matched the color of the subject’s skin. The Long-Lost Tale of the World’s Longest Book 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z “Our Earth is like a spinning top,” said Bradley Schaefer, professor of physics and astronomy at Louisiana State University. Why Do We Call Them the 'Dog Days' of Summer? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z After 10 minutes, each child was led into another room and invited to play with some “relatively attractive toys,” such as a fire engine, a spinning top and a doll set. Do Video Games Inspire Violent Behavior? 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Bigger picture, a look at the monthly continuation chart for Comex gold futures reveals that November’s action formed a “spinning top” on the candlestick chart. Gold Buyers Emerge, November Low Holds For Now 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Ms Wang made a water ball as part of her physics demonstration, and used spinning tops to create gyroscopic motion. Year in Pictures: China 2013 2013-12-29T00:15:14Z The game revolves around a cyclical story where the player grinds through a series of battles to collect and customize an ever growing set of Beyblade spinning tops. 'Beyblade Evolution' Is The 3DS RPG No One's Talking About 2013-09-20T11:08:00Z "This market is a wildly spinning top which is going to end badly," one executive wrote in a confidential memo. DealBook: Case Details Internal Tension at S.&P. Amid Subprime Problems 2013-02-05T18:55:37Z "Grandparents might buy a spinning top, even if the boy or girl is screaming for an iPad," she says. Are we paying for toys that teach? 2013-01-23T00:13:41Z He was a spinning top of a boy, bouncing from one activity to the next, as if the day could never contain all the fun to be had. Two Funerals for Two 6-Year-Old Boys in Newtown 2012-12-18T03:00:02Z Augustin Cross: "A hand-crafted metal spinning top photographed on a white light background." Your pictures: Swifter 2012-08-02T08:16:45Z They play gambling games, many of them now obscure: fives, spell, null, marbles, chuck-farthing, spinning tops and holes. The Rail: The Rail Bookshelf: 'Eclipse' 2012-06-04T16:48:17Z “He’s a spinning top,” says former Knick Anthony Mason, one of several team alums on hand to see Lin. Linsanity! Jeremy Lin Continues NBA Ascent 2012-02-11T17:05:12Z The bicycle wheel, employed as a spinning top, in fig. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z They swooped and careened and twirled till they were blurred like a spinning top, till they were exhausted and wavering in their flight. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z I reversed at full speed, and swung that wheel around until it looked like a spinning top. Fenn Masterson's Discovery or, The Darewell Chums on a Cruise 2011-11-07T02:00:19.467Z This so-called Eulerian movement is a normal gyroscopic motion like the slow gyration of a spinning top. Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes 2011-10-28T02:00:24.840Z He was conscious of being flung heavily against some solid object, turned round and round like a slowly spinning top, and being dragged down, down, down. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z A spinning top with a polished upper plane surface will provide an artificial horizon at sea, when the real horizon is obscured. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Possibly some of the great inventions yet to be made will be new uses of the spinning top. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z It was half-past two of a black February morning, and the snow swirls were waltzing like spinning tops all about the market square. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z The earth's axis "precesses," however, just as does that of a spinning top. Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes 2011-10-28T02:00:24.840Z His head was like the centre of a spinning top or the hub of a flying wheel. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z Now, I for one have been in Japan a good while and have seen many flying kites and spinning tops. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z When the car starts to fall the spinning gyroscopes right it much as a spinning top rights itself if tipped to one side by a blow. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z Every 26,000 years it slews slowly round in a circle, much like a spinning top wobbling around on a table. Have people's star signs changed? 2011-01-17T14:32:49Z He twirls round about like a spinning top and then topples face downward. The Irish on the Somme Being a Second Series of 'The Irish at the Front' 2011-01-12T03:00:32.843Z In this condition its outer covering is very thin—merely a transparent membrane, through which the now quickened animal may be seen revolving with the celerity of a spinning top. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z Because you earn £20m per week, do your kids expect very expensive presents, or do you try to keep them grounded by giving each of them a wooden spinning top and an orange every year? Small Talk: Kevin Davies 2010-12-24T09:31:29Z It took a long time to discover that the spinning top is a useful machine. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z Was it for this that the years had changed on his face as the hues change on a spinning top? The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z The toys are largely revivals of classic F. A. O. toys: the “big piano,” tin spinning tops, teddy bears and jump-ropes with wooden handles. Overhaul Planned for F.A.O. Schwarz 2010-10-01T21:40:00Z The spinning top has grooves on it, like a tap and wings to make it spin from the oil flow. Times Readers Suggest Fixes for Oil Spill 2010-06-03T14:48:00Z One box was filled with toys, including a spinning top, another had medicines. Dagenham's heyday: 'It was all just one big happy family then' 2010-03-21T00:06:00Z The spinning top is a beautiful illustration of this principle. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z Just now she was quiet, as a spinning top is quiet, her thoughts, her conjectures, merely revolving at high speed. Command Of this description are swimming, running, leaping, spinning tops, and throwing stones. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts Why a spinning top stands on its point. Common Science When they run and turn to hit the ball, their skirts swing around wildly and make them look like spinning tops. Getting to know Spain One of these devices is the gyroscope, which will be described under the head of "spinning tops." The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z "I'm cutting it!" yelled Fraser—and with his words the cell lurched, swung, whirled like a spinning top. The Floating Island of Madness "Aye, that's the thing I can't make out; besides, perhaps the air would stick to the earth as it turns round, as threads stick to my spinning top, and go round with it." Practical Education, Volume II A bird rubs against the air, the point of a spinning top rubs against the sidewalk on which it is spinning. Common Science Water dropped on a spinning top rushes towards the circumference and is shot off at right angles to a line drawn from the point of parting to the centre of the top. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use The speed of the dancers slackened like that of a spinning top, and they came to a sudden standstill. The Italian Twins An oddity, having the shape of a spinning top. The Pecan and its Culture The Spring came to this street with spinning tops, And marbles rolling where the yards were bare, With parti-coloured bonnets in the shops, And young girls' laughter on the sterile air. Ships in Harbour The boys are fond of spinning tops, which they make for themselves. Children of Borneo Do you remember, Benny, that 'Chanukah' when you won everything with the spinning top? Jewish Children In marbles, spinning top, and ball I was inferior,—indeed, scarcely at home in the technics of some of them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Inside these revolve on pivots, on the principle of a spinning top, the rolls of prayers which, by means of a projecting knob above the machine, the worshipper sets in motion. In the Forbidden Land Staid Arabs, with turbans and long, flowing robes, spinning tops, formed a sight of which we never tired. Southern Arabia Then I’m blessed if I wasn’t asleep again, fast as a top—chap told me once that didn’t mean a spinning top, but a taupe, which he said was French for dormouse. To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze Song The rustle and hum of spinning top, Wild laughter and babel of sound-- Hear the roar of the waves at Pu'u-hina! Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula There the pavement was smooth, just the place for spinning tops. Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's Its sense of casual and careless calm, too, seemed to him only the rest of a spinning top. Phantom Wires A Novel After all, what was he, what was human striving everywhere, but a vainly spinning top. The Henchman I have a vague and confused remembrance of continual detonations, of the shaking of the huge granitic mass, and of the raft going round like a spinning top. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth "I'm going to the top store to buy a spinning top," answered bunny uncle. Uncle Wiggily in the Woods Activities portrayed include skating, bowling, spinning tops, fishing, rolling hoops, using a yo-yo, swinging, wrestling, skipping rope, shooting, playing skittles, riding a hobby horse, sledding, boxing, and playing musical instruments. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America It is seen in the ordinary spinning top, which stands erect in its capacity of a gyroscope revolving horizontally. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers The stem of the spinning top wavers, describes a circle, and finally falls; the axis of the spinning earth wavers, describes a circle of nearly 28,000 years, and never falls. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work It was a stirring place of trade Where famous spinning tops were made. Recollections of Bytown and Its Old Inhabitants They tried to get away, but could not, and the bear was just going to carry them off, when he saw the spinning top whizzing on the ground. Uncle Wiggily in the Woods For a little while he watched the sunlight dance out in the market-place and the boys running and spinning tops—then he shut his eyes and went to sleep. Invisible Links But the answer was found—in the spinning top. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers Some boys are spinning tops under the pillars. The Amateur Poacher Such were Des Esseintes' reflections when the breeze brought him the faint whistle of the toy railroad winding playfully, like a spinning top, between Paris and Sceaux. Against the Grain So Billie picked up the spinning top and put it on the bear's broad, flat paw. Uncle Wiggily in the Woods The generator, when thrown in gear, had been running as smoothly as a spinning top; there were no leaks in the pipe or the dam. Radio Boys Cronies Or, Bill Brown's Radio A spinning top set down so that it stands at an angle to the floor will right itself; it will rise till it stands upright on the point of equal friction. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers I have often seen them playing in winter in the snow, and spinning tops on the ice, barefooted and half-naked. Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People "Stop, now," said Maria, clutching Fly as if she had been a spinning top. Little Folks Astray Here you are with five cents and you don't want a top, and here I am without five cents and I do want a spinning top. Uncle Wiggily in the Woods Well, Tommy was a good deal better at spinning top on Academy steps than doing lessons, and a deal fonder of playing shinney than writing letters. The Half-Back The thing was done; the spinning top had come to the rescue of its posterity. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers On the outskirts of one town, half a dozen little children stopped spinning tops in the road to demand tribute from the train. Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them There was a shattering explosion, a dull roar, and for an instant Aubrey thought the whole bookshop had turned into a vast spinning top. The Haunted Bookshop If the second player hits the spinning top it is a good omen for cutting down the trees. Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 It is the age when the average boy is beginning the third reader, and when he is shooting marbles and spinning tops. Lifted Masks; stories I came to in a moment, my heart whirling like a spinning top. Parnassus on Wheels So Curly played with his spinning top, and his brother was down in the yard, having fun, when, all at once in at the window where Curly was in bed, jumped a great big snail. Curly and Floppy Twistytail; the Funny Piggie Boys Jonah watched anxiously, expecting him to fall, but all at once, with a forward lurch Dad broke into a run, safe on his feet as a spinning top. Jonah The one that whirls around like a spinning top is hardcooked. The Perdue Chicken Cookbook His eyes were gleaming, and his cheeks were flushed, and a few bars of a merry tune came in a keen whistle from his lips as he watched the spirals made by the spinning top. The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study Throughout America, in a mysterious way, all the boys start spinning tops at a certain season and then suddenly cease and begin, to play marbles. The Foundations of Personality So he went down to the eleven-and-six-cent store to buy a spinning top for his brother. Curly and Floppy Twistytail; the Funny Piggie Boys He swayed a little, then suddenly broke into a run whose speed kept him from falling and preserved his balance like a spinning top. Jonah A small iron cannon ball spun into the road like a spinning top, scattering the dust. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger But now, since the chance watching of the spinning top in the street had given him his first inkling of the trail, he was following it up to a clear issue. The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study Upstairs in the pastor's study, Muller sat in the armchair attentively watching the gyrations of a spinning top. The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study I want a spinning top that I can make go around when I lie down in bed. Curly and Floppy Twistytail; the Funny Piggie Boys |
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