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Tolstoy's characters would have been whirling in waltzes.

From The Guardian • May 3, 2013

We're already there and always have been, whirling about the sun at 18 miles per second, carrouseling around the galaxy, fleeing the other galaxies at millions of miles per hour.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of late, the grindstone did undoubtedly appear to have been whirling at his own nose rather than Boffin's, but Boffin's nose was now to be sharpened fine.

From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles