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The central text of Europe’s central religion, followed closely by the tales and fairy spinnings of a Greek storyteller.

From Scientific American • May 8, 2012

Despite these wild spinnings, spiral-swimming creatures manage to navigate very well.

From New York Times • May 16, 2011

Many of them try too hard to impress with excessive swan flutterings as the swan-queen Odette on the one hand and multitudinous spinnings as the enchantress Odile on the other.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2010

Approximately half the footage of Ice Follies is devoted to the spinnings and whirlings of a troupe of professional skaters, photographed from all angles.

From Time Magazine Archive

I hold, with Poe, that there are no long poems—only bursts of poetry in long spinnings of metrical prose.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose