whirlwind 
whirl·wind (--wind′)
noun
- a current of air whirling violently upward in a spiral motion around a more or less vertical axis that has a forward motion
- anything resembling a whirlwind, as in violent or destructive force
Etymology: ME whirlwynd, prob. based on ON hvirfilvindr
adjective
impetuous and speedy a whirlwind courtship
sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
to engage in, and suffer the consequences of, evil or folly: Hos. 8:7
Preposition: of
- activity: Week Beginning Sunday 12th February 2006 This week is likely to bring a whirlwind of activity for all signs.
- change: They might even help you embrace a whirlwind of change on Sunday.
- emotion: The whirlwind of emotions generated by the Olympic Games sucks me up.
- energy: I am the rainbow before the storm the promise of serenity after these rumblings these whirlwinds of energy urgently released.
Converse of object
- reap: May they reap the whirlwind at the next election!
- like: See also The king of y e 29r north shall come against him like a whirlwind, Dan w th chariots &c Dan 11.40.
- create: Donald screamed a Fire spell at the whirling sword, creating a whirlwind of flames.
- raise: Ludecke writes: " He has a matchless instinct for taking advantage of every breeze to raise a political whirlwind.
- sow: In fact, BAT is reaping the whirlwind sown by its own corporate misdeeds.
Adjective modifier
- minor: This, the fire devil, is also classed as a minor whirlwind as it develops upwards from the surface.
- small: When Sarah gets to the fountain she vanishes leaving only a small whirlwind in the Shadows.
- little: Once again, little magic whirlwinds played around the garden, sending the pond into spasms with little waterspouts.
- other: Other whirlwinds The third grouping, other whirlwinds, includes those such as trailing vortices.
Modifies a noun
- courtship: It took him slightly longer to marry his beloved Lois, a whirlwind courtship of three weeks.
- romance: What has the Governmentâs whirlwind romance with the CIC blossomed into?
- tour: Leonard drags her off on a whirlwind tour of all the places where they usually meet.
- trip: Author Sandor Katz takes readers on a whirlwind trip through the wild world of fermentation.
- journey: A Bit Of History Join Professor Eamon Gumbo on a whirlwind journey through our country's history!
- visit: The whole point of a whirlwind visit to London was meeting investors and developers - plus a little house-hunting on the side.
Noun used with modifier
- eddy: The 20th of March showing four eddy whirlwind events.
Here! creep, Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
Behold there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of 92 fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
Our childhoods are sowing the wind, our adulthoods are reaping the whirlwind.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
And, pleased th'Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.
Fair laughs the morn and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
It comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. The ashes of an oak in the chimney are no epitaph of that oak, to tell me how high or how large that was; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what men it hurt when it felland when a whirlwind hathblownthedustofthechurchyard intothe church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce,This is the Patrician, this the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebeian bran.
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