And as it is impossible to preserve an appropriate dignity and deliver a lecture on deportment at a time when one is suspended from the end of an elephant's trunk and involuntarily goes through the motions of a pendulum, the boy in the end began to laugh also.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
But his sympathies had already gone to the other side, and Kent was not the man to make an emotional pendulum of himself.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
A woman sleeping in a seat to his right had a head that fell toward the aisle, straightened, fell again, and straightened like a pendulum.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills