Coincident with the last pair of dancers performing their final gyration and the hum of voices assuming a louder tone, each of the men standing around the walls produced a brace of revolvers and covered the particular group nearest to him!
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer
The gyration within which his sentiment wheels, no matter of what kind it may be, is always the shortest possible.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
The splendid tent of the Emir which first submitted to the blast, passed close to me, flying along with the velocity of the herie, while every other was either levelled to the ground or carried up into the air, and whirled about in mad gyration.
"The Pacha of Many Tales"
Captain Frederick Marryat