I'll tinker you and your whirligig up, young man.
"Spinning-Wheel Stories"
Louisa May Alcott
I was afraid, since we were to be such friends, and you wanted my help in the whirligig this winter, that you might not like my possibly having to live in Albany.
"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"
Paul Leicester Ford
That night, still in her white organdie frock, with its whirligig design of too much Valenciennes lace, her hair worn high and revealing an unsuspectedly white nape of neck, Lilly regarded her parents across a little table-display of gifts.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst