Meanings of whirl eddy in inglês

If that huge revolving pillar sloped down, it would involve us in its whirling eddies.

Nietzsche came and heard the Wagnerian music and was caught as flotsam in its whirling eddies.

We are often the sport of whirling eddies, and the rage of furious rapids and falls.

The woman lifted her head and looked down along the whirling eddies to the froth of broken water.

The whirling eddies of her thoughts rushed through her brain in a perpetual series of questions and answers.

Here the current was extremely strong, and this broke the whirling eddy, and gave the raft some stability.

That, as everyone knows, was destroyed, blasted into the ever- whirling eddies of the space-time continuum and lost forever.

The water was still smooth, save where it was broken into waves and whirling eddies by the sweep of oars.

The waters resounded, and the banks rang again, as they swam hither and thither with loud cries amid the whirling eddies.

The other vessels had been twisted off by the whirling eddies, and were now rapidly scattering, each striving to clear the reef.

No one else, least of all himself, feels any desire to go down to that whirling eddy for confirmation of my story.

The whirling eddies of the torrent bore the log along, now carrying it towards one side of the river, now towards the other.

The yellow rays showed the whirling eddies of autumnal leaves, and found fantastic reflection in the turbid water through which the horses were struggling.

The unpropitious name still adheres to the tumultuous point of whirling eddies where the waters of the sound unite with those of the river.

In an instant the torrent had caught them in its whirling eddies, and they were so many separate atoms borne along on the flood.

The man was swimming, but he was hampered by his burden, and once he and Mabel sank almost from sight in a whirling eddy.