| Eivätkö dervissit sano, että vapaus on valintojen puutetta? | What is it the dervishes say? Freedom is the absence of choice. |
| He olivat metrin mittaisia, pyöriviä dervissejä. | They weren't listening to me. They were like 4-foot whirling dervishes. |
| Opin tuon tempun eräältä dervissiltä. | An old trick I learned from a dervish in Istanbul. |
| Ehdotin, että palaamme toiste. Yleensä pyörin kuin dervissi - Mutta Francis istui vieressäni ja piteli minua kädestä - ja lausui kaikki muistamansa Gilbertin ja Sullivanin laulut. | I wanted to come again another day because usually I'm a whirling dervish, but Francis sat right next to me, held my hand, sang me all the Gilbert Sullivan songs he could think of, just to make the time pass easier. |
| En edes tiedä, mikä pyörivä dervissi on, mutta sellaisia he olivat. | And l don't even know what a whirling dervish is, but that's--that's what they were like. |
| Jopa pyörteilevä dervissi. | Even a whirling dervish. |
| Neiti Eyelesbarrow pyrähti tänne kuin pyörivä dervissi ― kaksi viikkoa sitten pelastamaan minut. | Miss Eyelesbarrow breezed in like a whirling dervish a fortnight ago to rescue me. |
| Olen ollut aamusta asti kuin pyörivä dervissi. | I tell you, I've been like a whirling dervish all morning. |
