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spinning top
«When stately ships are twirled and spun / Like whipping tops and help there's none / And mighty ships ten thousand ton / Go down like lumps of lead.»
Author: Ralph Hodgson
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lumps, spinning top, spun, stately, twirl, twirled, twirling, whipping
«If I'm in the middle of hitting a most fantastic cross court back hand top spin and someone says 'Can you stop now and have sex' I'll say: 'No thanks!'»
Author: Sir Cliff Richard
(Singer)
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fantastic, have sex, hitting, I Say No, spin, spinning top
«A round ball of a man with protruding lower lip and seal-colored eyes, [he] spun like a top from continent to continent, jabbing a pudgy forefinger at everything that stood in his way.»
Author: Ted Morgan
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colored, forefinger, jab, jabbing, lip, protruding, pudgy, spinning top, spun
«Let anyone try to cut a thought across the middle and get a look at its section, and he will see how difficult the introspective observation. . . . is. The rush of the thought is always so headlong that it almost always brings us up at the conclusion before we can arrest it. [Introspective analysis] is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see how the darkness looks.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Almost always, analysis, arrest, cut across, gas, get a look, headlong, introspective, rush, section, sections, seizing, spinning, spinning top, The Conclusion, turn up