Catherine wheel

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Set to Carl Orff’s dramatic score, the production includes a giant moving Catherine wheel and a live chorus seated on a floating platform above the stage.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2022

And the late conservative justice Antonin Scalia will spin like a Catherine wheel in the grave.

From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2016

We think: is this going to be another misfire; an exploding Catherine wheel scorching the bark off a tree; a toppled rocket screaming horizontally into the laburnums followed by the awful yelping of a dog?

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2014

LiVolsi pointed to what looked like a whipping Catherine wheel, with spikes that spurted powder into paper packets, 50 blurring past in every second.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2014

While we were eating, two or three little lizards with tails curiously twirled round and round, like a St. Catherine wheel, made themselves friendly, and ate pieces of bread from our hands without fear.

From Pieces of Eight by Le Gallienne, Richard