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  • I turn a slow pirouette in the middle of the room.†   (source)
  • "Keep your hands well clear of their forks," he warned me as we pirouetted round each other at the dumbwaiter.†   (source)
  • But Hana's greatest love was skating, and she worked hard perfecting her pirouettes on Nove Mesto's frozen pond.†   (source)
  • I could see the pale globes of her buttocks as she pirouetted and kicked for depth.†   (source)
  • Down below, Sushi K pirouettes spastically as a beer bottle caroms off his forehead.†   (source)
  • "Tweech his own," I said, and pirouetted to tippy-toe out of the room, in keeping with my image as Double-E. If my belly button were a knothole it would certainly be more congruous with my keg-like body.†   (source)
  • Alec looked horrified, as if she'd asked him to put on a tutu and execute a perfect pirouette.†   (source)
  • She had seen him in the plazas, pirouetting his perfect horses with trappings so rich they seemed ornaments used for the Mass, and he was elegant and clever and had a dreamer's eyelashes that could make the stones sigh, but she compared him to her memory of poor emaciated Florentino Ariza sitting under the almond trees in the little park, with the book of verses on his lap, and she did not find even the shadow of a doubt in her heart.†   (source)
  • The way is full of flowers and surprise views, tight turns one after another so that the whole world rolls and pirouettes and rises and falls away.†   (source)
  • A car pirouetted silently while skating on its tires, emerged from this on a transverse angle, and slid to a stop with one headlight thrust into the door of Pe-tersen's Grocery, which somebody opened at just the right moment— miraculously—so that no damage was done to car or store.†   (source)
  • Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.†   (source)
  • "Ah yes, all day, every day;" he sang out, then pirouetted gracefully around the platform.†   (source)
  • The rest of the horses pirouette, turning circles on the spot.†   (source)
  • The monster pirouetted in my brain.†   (source)
  • It was a rhetorical question, yet when Oromis remained silent, his almond eyes fixed on a trio of swallows pirouetting overhead, Eragon realized that the elf was considering how best to answer him.†   (source)
  • This is made slightly unbelievable by the fact that she's hopping and pirouetting from foot to foot as she says it, but Izzy-'s never been a great liar.†   (source)
  • Ashley took another step forward, pirouetted, and leaned against the booth.†   (source)
  • I asked, pirouetting so that he could see every angle.†   (source)
  • She watched Miles Lightman weave through the crowd, doing a couple of pirouettes as he approached, taking in the full 360, eyes slightly popping.†   (source)
  • I have the worst pirouettes in the world!†   (source)
  • "She's a ship, not a cat," said Bert, "and the fact that she has a will of her own doesn't mean she can pirouette on demand."†   (source)
  • The dresser pirouetted on one wooden leg, then tipped and crashed onto its side.†   (source)
  • Continue the motion with the momentum, pirouette.†   (source)
  • Chrissie, seven-year-old ballerina and baseball player, would never again pirouette on point or run the bases.†   (source)
  • Cecily twirls in a pirouette.†   (source)
  • After a quick pirouette, Mavis threw her arms around Eve.†   (source)
  • …medicinal capsule she had ever seen, and was also metallically reflective, so that as he held it inches above her face where she lay against the pillow—wiggling it between thumb and forefinger and causing the pinkish oblong to do a little midair pirouette—she could see shimmering along its surface the miniature conflagration which was only a captured image of the autumnal leaves outside, set afire by the sunset… Drowsily Sophie inhaled the odor of cooking from the kitchen two floors…†   (source)
  • Opening wide his wings, he began a stately pirouette, a slow-motion quadrille.†   (source)
  • See?" and he pirouetted before me.†   (source)
  • The noise level in the room has risen 5000 decibels, everyone is shouting and cheering on the gladiators as they battle their way around the arena, and the bleeding heart pirouettes about the room after them, armed with his theories about humanity.†   (source)
  • Amused by their terror, the dragoon was making his horse perform volts and pirouettes, backing it into the crowd and making it rear slowly as in a circus turn.†   (source)
  • Jack tied off the rope in an aerial pirouette then floated back to me, his blade glowing with pride.†   (source)
  • "I just thought of something that might help you with your pirouettes," he said.†   (source)
  • The poor guy didn't even have a chance to pirouette.†   (source)
  • And before I can call it back Cecily slips out of her graceful pirouette.†   (source)
  • Colorful sparks pirouetted gracefully around the giant.†   (source)
  • I would like to see you do ten pirouettes one day.†   (source)
  • I want you to treat pirouettes in the same way.†   (source)
  • I wanted to get back to my leaps and pirouettes.†   (source)
  • No, ten was too many pirouettes even to dream about!†   (source)
  • I want you to treat pirouettes like a mango.†   (source)
  • Discover the secret and essence of pirouettes.†   (source)
  • If five pirouettes were that easy to achieve, wouldn't every dancer in the world be doing it?†   (source)
  • Many nights I dreamed about doing multiple pirouettes and the feeling was incredibly exhilarating.†   (source)
  • After seven years at the academy I even mastered eight consecutive pirouettes, occasionally ten.†   (source)
  • I only just felt comfortable doing three pirouettes without fear of falling.†   (source)
  • Teacher Xiao insisted, and 1 thought of his unattainable pirouettes.†   (source)
  • I felt good about myself—now I could complete three consecutive pirouettes consistently.†   (source)
  • That's decided, then," said Hermione briskly, getting to her feet and performing a graceful pirouette.†   (source)
  • I steered the boat into a dive, and Sekhmet shot past but then pirouetted in the air with irritating agility and dove after us.†   (source)
  • I looked in the mirror at our reflection, at the twelve girls, sleek and shiny, pirouetting blurs of black, white and pink.†   (source)
  • The full aerial roundhouse move forced an opponent to guard against a lethal heel to his face, but then morphed into a pirouette, one full rotation to bring the sword, not the feet, around with blazing speed.†   (source)
  • He probably could have impaled Jason several times, but the giant insisted on doing a pirouette with every attack, which slowed him down.†   (source)
  • I began to do well with our two new, technically difficult steps for the year: the single tour en l'air and the triple pirouette.†   (source)
  • Then, after class one day, Teacher Xiao said, "Cunxin, I want to see you do five pirouettes from now on.†   (source)
  • Ten pirouettes was completely crazy.†   (source)
  • Teacher Xiao's unattainable pirouettes.†   (source)
  • Teacher Xiao, you mean four pirouettes.†   (source)
  • I was still working on five consecutive pirouettes and was having tremendous problems breaking this crucial barrier.†   (source)
  • We would complete our barre work within fifteen minutes and the rest of the two hours would he all pirouettes.†   (source)
  • For a long time, it seemed that we would never achieve more than three pirouettes but still Teacher Xiao worked us tirelessly, day in and day out.†   (source)
  • My audience gathered in front of me, in that old dance studio once more, the same one where I had endlessly practiced my pirouettes and had left dents in the wooden floor.†   (source)
  • All the hopping up and down stairs, the pirouetting in the candlelight, the torn hamstrings and the painful injuries of the past twelve years—it all felt worthwhile that night.†   (source)
  • Teacher Xiao knew I was going to work on it throughout the holidays, but after less than half an hour of practice, my pirouettes were getting worse and I was getting increasingly frustrated.†   (source)
  • No more three pirouettes!†   (source)
  • I cannot be prevented from pirouetting behind Miss Matthews into prayers.†   (source)
  • Jinny, pirouetting across the room, will perch on the arm of his chair and ask, "Did he love me?"†   (source)
  • Jinny spins her fingers on the table-cloth, as if they were dancing in the sunshine, pirouetting.†   (source)
  • She was a brown lively girl, short brown hair that snapped when she pirouetted, and brown arms and shoulders above the white halter tied over her breasts, and brown legs flashing above white shoes and socks, and a little brown flat tummy between the white shorts and the white halter.†   (source)
  • "How do I look?" she cried, pirouetting for his benefit and tossing her head so that the plume danced.†   (source)
  • From basements, cellars, and sewers they emerged in long wavering files into the light of day, swayed helplessly, then did a sort of pirouette and fell dead at the feet of the horrified onlookers.†   (source)
  • The most volatile races, such as the Italians, often danced for joy, whirled each other around, pirouetted in an ecstasy: Swedes sometimes just looked at each other, breathing through open mouths like a panting dog; Jews wept, jabbered, almost put each other's eyes out with the recklessness of their darting gestures; Poles roared and gripped each other at arm's length as though they meant to tear a handful of flesh; and after one pecking kiss, the English might be seen gravitating…†   (source)
  • The fast movement—which was, in this case, Sir Mador dismounting backwards and upside down—is going on underneath the lance, which performs its own independent pirouette in graceful detachment, and comes down elsewhere, when everybody has forgotten it Sir Mador's lance came down on its point, by some ballistic freak, just behind the king-of-arms who was holding the black pug.†   (source)
  • Then when the lamps were lit, I should put on my red dress and it would be thin as a veil, and would wind about my body, and billow out as I came into the room, pirouetting.†   (source)
  • Not sighs and laughter, not circling and ingenious phrases; not Rhoda's strange communications when she looks past us, over our shoulders; nor Jinny's pirouetting, all of a piece, limbs and body.†   (source)
  • Helen, stop giggling and pirouetting, and go and finish your packing.†   (source)
  • "How do you like my gown?" asked Carley, pirouetting for his benefit.†   (source)
  • "Well, what the deuce do I care for that?" said Charles, making a pirouette.†   (source)
  • If I were to put on such a necklace as that, I should feel as if I had been pirouetting.†   (source)
  • "In short!" he cried, making a pirouette, "if it were only for distinguishing myself at fires!"†   (source)
  • No sooner had his sister left him alone, than Gania took the note out of his pocket, kissed it, and pirouetted around.†   (source)
  • He looked at the fire of logs, with its one flame pirouetting on the top in a dying dance after the breakfast-cooking and boiling, and it seemed to jig to his inward tune; also at the two chimney crooks dangling down from the cotterel, or cross-bar, plumed with soot, which quivered to the same melody; also at the half-empty kettle whining an accompaniment.†   (source)
  • Because you are a humbug, sir; and thought fit to worry people for half an hour, and tried to frighten them into believing that you would shoot yourself with your little empty pistol, pirouetting about and playing at suicide!†   (source)
  • In an instant the yards swung round; and as the ship half-wheeled upon her heel, her three firm-seated graceful masts erectly poised upon her long, ribbed hull, seemed as the three Horatii pirouetting on one sufficient steed.†   (source)
  • But the Emperor's friend covered himself with glory, for he danced everything, whether he knew it or not, and introduced impromptu pirouettes when the figures bewildered him.†   (source)
  • Owing to the very judicious plan of dividing the two acts of the opera with a ballet, the pauses between the performances are very short, the singers in the opera having time to repose themselves and change their costume, when necessary, while the dancers are executing their pirouettes and exhibiting their graceful steps.†   (source)
  • A little further on, they are found still better expressed by the Rue Pirouette, which ran into the Rue Mondetour.†   (source)
  • …to the table, there bounded on to the stage from some mysterious inlet, a little girl in a dirty white frock with tucks up to the knees, short trousers, sandaled shoes, white spencer, pink gauze bonnet, green veil and curl papers; who turned a pirouette, cut twice in the air, turned another pirouette, then, looking off at the opposite wing, shrieked, bounded forward to within six inches of the footlights, and fell into a beautiful attitude of terror, as a shabby gentleman in an old…†   (source)
  • At the approach of spring the red squirrels got under my house, two at a time, directly under my feet as I sat reading or writing, and kept up the queerest chuckling and chirruping and vocal pirouetting and gurgling sounds that ever were heard; and when I stamped they only chirruped the louder, as if past all fear and respect in their mad pranks, defying humanity to stop them.†   (source)
  • Then, thrusting her under lip out beyond the upper, she made a little pout, which appeared to be familiar to her, executed a pirouette on her heel, and set about collecting in her tambourine the gifts of the multitude.†   (source)
  • He could keep neither his legs nor his body still, but pirouetted about the place in an airy ecstasy of happiness.†   (source)
  • Mesdemoiselles Noblet, Julie, and Leroux executed the customary pirouettes; Robert duly challenged the Prince of Granada; and the royal father of the princess Isabella, taking his daughter by the hand, swept round the stage with majestic strides, the better to display the rich folds of his velvet robe and mantle.†   (source)
  • He cast a glance of tenderness and admiration into the interior of the precious pouch, readjusted his toilet, rubbed up his boots, dusted his poor half sleeves, all gray with ashes, whistled an air, indulged in a sportive pirouette, looked about to see whether there were not something more in the cell to take, gathered up here and there on the furnace some amulet in glass which might serve to bestow, in the guise of a trinket, on Isabeau la Thierrye, finally pushed open the door which…†   (source)
  • The grandfather executed a pirouette on his eighty-year-old heels, and began to talk again like a spring that has broken loose once more: "Ainsi, bornant les cours de tes revasseries, Alcippe, il est donc vrai, dans peu tu te maries.†   (source)
  • The iron tower and the gorgeous bedquilt came cumbrously but gracefully pirouetting down the lists, and we tripped lightly up to meet them.†   (source)
  • Then he executed a pirouette on his heel; a moment later, the old woman, who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:— "Le roi Coupdesabot[31] S'en allait a la chasse, A la chasse aux corbeaux, Monte sur deux echasses.†   (source)
  • Pirouette!†   (source)
  • Pirouette!†   (source)
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