There may be eddies and counter-currents in a river, but the steady and powerful sweep of the stream is ever onward towards the sea.

But these are eddies and back currents in the stream of literary tendency.

There are eddies and whorls and backflows, if you look closely.

There are eddies and tides in the galaxy's sweeping whirl.

Yet there are eddies and swirls.

There were eddies of turbulent spirits.

The unanimous march, he discovered, was arrested, there were eddies, a flow sideways, shouts of "The lights!"

Marie was in the kitchen, scouring the counters, and there were eddies of tension around her neck and shoulders.

Soon, there were eddies of panic all over the hillside as men tried to fling themselves pell-mell away from the shells when they landed.

The unanimous march, he discovered, was arrested, there were eddies, a flow sideways, shouts of "The lights!" Voices were crying together one thing.