cap spinning

That distant whirring sound you hear is a long-dead Greek physician spinning in his grave.

It was a mighty simple transaction, but it produced some startling results for me, that same coin-spinning.

At once cover the mouth of the tube with a filter-paper cap moistened with saturated aqueous solution of silver nitrate (1:1).

With horror she had heard her brother addressed by a disreputable costermonger in a mangy fur cap, as "Old pal."

"It's like that out here on the Riviera," said Jane, shaking her head so gloomily that the ruffled cap wobbled.

But his head was too hot to wear a thinking cap, and no story would come at his half-hearted call.