Dancing girls, in mask and tinsel, gyrate to the weird strains of the Gamelon, an orchestra of tiny gongs, bamboo tubes, and metal pipes.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
gyrate, old Top, and let who will be clever; The mess we're in is much too deep to solve.
"The So-called Human Race"
Bert Leston Taylor
Big ocean liners, flying the Red Cross, lie at their moorings, and lofty electric cranes gyrate noiselessly over supply ships unloading their stores, while animated swarms of dockers in khaki pile up a great ant-heap of sacks in the sheds with a passionless concentration that seems like the workings of blind instinct.
"Leaves from a Field Note-Book"
J. H. Morgan