Whirlwind
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Obama announced the United States’ strategic “pivot” to the Asia-Pacific region in January 2012, and a
whirlwind
of activity there – from Australia to Indonesia to India – marked America’s security diplomacy throughout the year.
If older leaders do not produce the right answers soon, younger generations will reap the
whirlwind
– sometimes literally.
After he had entered like a
whirlwind
the porch of the "Lion d'Or," the doctor, shouting very loud, ordered them to unharness his horse.
It went to the bottom of her soul, like a
whirlwind
in an abyss, and carried her away into the distances of a boundless melancholy.
In a word, Mademoiselle,' he said, as he came towards her with a terrible air, 'ought the man who seeks to banish ignorance and crime from the earth to pass like a
whirlwind
and do evil as though blindly?'Mathilde was afraid, she could not meet his gaze, and recoiled a little.
Fields, trees, and hedges, seemed to rush past them with the velocity of a whirlwind, so rapid was the pace at which they tore along.
Mr. Pickwick concluded amidst a
whirlwind
of applause; and once more were the lungs of the supernumeraries, under Mr. Weller's command, brought into active and efficient operation.
He was welcomed in the Maharajah's stables, where eight hundred horses were littered down nightly, and was allowed to watch them go out for their morning exercise, four hundred at a time, in a
whirlwind
of dust.
The piled-up vapours condense into water; and the air, put into violent action to supply the vacuum left by the condensation of the mists, rouses itself into a
whirlwind.
The fireball, half of it white, half azure blue, and the size of a ten-inch shell, moved slowly about the raft, but revolving on its own axis with astonishing velocity, as if whipped round by the force of the
whirlwind.
Sometimes a passing breeze raised the covering of ashes, and the two colonists, enveloped in a
whirlwind
of dust, lost sight of each other.
Mrs. Reed was rather a stout woman; but, on hearing this strange and audacious declaration, she ran nimbly up the stair, swept me like a
whirlwind
into the nursery, and crushing me down on the edge of my crib, dared me in an emphatic voice to rise from that place, or utter one syllable during the remainder of the day.
You recollect with what amorous curiosity your thought and your gaze were riveted upon this little whirlwind, hissing and humming with wings of purple and azure, in the midst of which floated an imperceptible body, veiled by the very rapidity of its movement.
Recall these impressions, and you will readily appreciate what Gringoire felt on contemplating, beneath her visible and palpable form, that Esmeralda of whom, up to that time, he had only caught a glimpse, amidst a
whirlwind
of dance, song, and tumult.
Oh! all that is a
whirlwind
in my head.
All at once she understood that a moment might come in which his love would seize her and bear her away, as a whirlwind; and when she felt this, she had the same impression that he had a moment before,--that she was standing on the edge of a precipice.
In his simple heart he marvelled that God could give such inconceivable almightiness to Satan, that He could yield the earth to him to knead, overturn, and trample it, to squeeze blood and tears from it, to twist it like a whirlwind, to storm it like a tempest, to consume it like a flame.
At that moment a horseman, rushing also like a whirlwind, but in the opposite direction, toward Antium, shouted as he raced past, "Rome is perishing!"
Vinicius rode into Aricia like a whirlwind, overturning and trampling a number of persons on the way.
Only at times did pain start up in the heart of Vinicius like a whirlwind, at times there flashed in him like lightning, hope, born of love and faith in the crucified God; but he tore himself away more and more each day from the earth, and yielded to death.
The people, like a wave, urged by a sudden whirlwind, rushed toward the old man to look at him more closely.
And then his thoughts raged as a sea torn by a
whirlwind.
And so Nero passed, as a whirlwind, as a storm, as a fire, as war or death passes; but the basilica of Peter rules till now, from the Vatican heights, the city, and the world.
A
whirlwind
had apparently collected its force in our vicinity; for there were frequent and violent alterations in the direction of the wind; and the exceeding density of the clouds (which hung so low as to press upon the turrets of the house) did not prevent our perceiving the life-like velocity with which they flew careering from all points against each other, without passing away into the distance.
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