- a variation of withershins.
widdershins
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Sandy Dennis, with her wiggly mouth and widdershins acting style, might as well have a curl in the middle of her forehead.
From Time Magazine Archive
And when they came to that part of the beach where strange things had been done in the ancient ages, lo, there was the crone, and she was dancing widdershins.
From Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson
She made his bed on the roof of the four-poster, and widdershins, as he ordered; and they slept that night, the wife as usual, and Joby up close to the rafters.
From Wandering Heath by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
And, lo! the nurse fell upon the beach as it were two handfuls of dead leaves, and the wind whirled them widdershins, and the sand-lice hopped between.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Robert Louis Stevenson
As soon as they started Joby saw that the whole thing was going around widdershins; and his brother stood up under the naphtha-lamp and pulled out a sextant and began to take observations.
From Wandering Heath by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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