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Meanings of be an eddy in английском

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Usage of be an eddy in английском
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We had got some distance down, when we saw what appeared to be an eddy or backwater in the river.
On the Banks of the Amazon
2
Every stroke took me more and more out of the power of the current, and there might even be an eddy to aid me.
Army Life in a Black Regiment
3
There is an eddy and a muttering in the flow.
Light
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There 's an eddy there, and the drift won't work in enough to trouble you.
Four Months in a Sneak-Box / A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down th...
5
There is an eddy and recoil in the flow.
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad
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There was an eddy of surprise and interrogation.
The Invisible Man
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The town was an eddy catching odd bits of driftwood such as only the frontier ever knew.
Keith of the Border: A Tale of the Plains
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That was an eddy in the nobler stream of tribulation which, like the Nile, bore all fertility in its waters.
The Romance of a Pro-Consul / Being the Personal Life and Memoir...
9
There was an eddy.
The Blonde Lady / Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Ars...
10
He had already seized the child (there was an eddy here under the bank) and was striking out for the shore.
Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp; Or, The Old Lumberman's Secret
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There was an eddy of furious, struggling men, with Lord Barrymore's thin, flushed face and Hooper's bulldog jowl in the centre of it.
Danger! and Other Stories
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"Where there 's a ledge there 's an eddy," screamed Glover, raising his voice to pierce the hiss of the rapid and the roar of the cascade.
Overland: A Novel