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Turning and Twisting Turning and Twisting - Circling like polishing rags —Diane Ackerman
- (His brain) spinning around and around like a ship’s propeller —Graham Masterton
- Spinning like a wind vane —William Faulkner
- Spun like someone caught in a revolving door —William Mcllvanney
- (My whole house) spun around me like a crazy carnival ride —George Garrett
- Swerving like a bird in mid-air —Lawrence Durrell
- Swirling about like boiling milk —H. G. Wells
- Sway like an elephant’s trunk —Anon
- (My senses) swivel like guns in their fixed sockets —Margaret Atwood
- (We caught him red-handed and he) turned as easily as a trout in the pan —Bryan Forbes
- Turned as a bucket turns in a well —Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Turning … like a chicken on a spit —Enid Bagnold
- Turning like a ghost across the road —Eudora Welty
- Turning like a hand in water —Philip Levine
- Turns and turns like a dog making a place to lie down —Maxine Kumin
- Twisted like a caterpillar —Cornell Woolrich
- Twisted like a desperate fish —Peter S. Beagle
- (Ryan’s mouth) twisted, like a key in a lock —Julia O’Faolain
- Twisting his whole body as if his bones were made of rubber —Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Went around and around like the policeman and Charlie Chaplin, both intending to fall down —Eudora Welty
- Wheeled like an ambushed cat —Nelson Algren
- Whipped round like a steel spring —John Fowles
- Whisking about like a swallow into its nest —O. Henry
- (She was always) whisking about like a clean starched napkin —H. E. Bates
- Wriggle … like a snake —Mary Stewart
- Writhing like a baited worm —Countee Cullen
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