Meanings of little eddy in English

There, in a little eddy of sidewalk traffic, he drew them together.

Thus everywhere a little eddy of silence accompanied his steps.

I suppose that's the gist of the whole thing. He stared at a little eddy.

Just below it, there was a little eddy.

Before the little eddy of interruption was ended the reading of the clergyman's letter was already continuing.

On the shore of this little eddy there is about two feet of gravel beach above water.

On the shore of this little eddy there is about two feet of gravel beach above the water.

Far away, upstairs, perhaps in the nursery, a little eddy of wind gathered itself and swept along the floor, carrying dust.

There was a little eddy of oily water at the stern; they were slipping, sliding through the fog-bank, back to the earth.

They're just naturally polite and elegant, she thought, half despairingly, holding the edge of her nightgown down against a little eddy of wind.

Close to home, the first little eddy of wind stirred, and the song of dripping twigs began; an owl hooted, honey-soft, in the fog.

But you look, and he is not there-nothingbut the old harbour dust that the wind stirs into a little eddy while you look.

Cline is also adept at swirling little eddies of unease into motion.

Little Eddy was raised up to the bed, and kissed his departing sister.

She passed through stagnant odours and little eddies of perfume.

Queer little eddies of fury.... Recently-ithappens-I'vebeen seeing one.