By degrees I had created within and around me a new world of interest and activity, in which this little whirlpool of morbid feeling became an insignificant point.

Still, as the water rushed into the vortex, every thing within its influence yielded to the suction; and at the next instant, the launch was seen darting down the declivity, as if eager to follow the vast machine, of which it had so long formed a dependant, through the same gaping whirlpool, to the bottom.

The water was only about two feet deep; but the place was a miniature whirlpool, and, once started down the pent-in torrent, a man would be dashed along the rocky bed and carried far out into the deep Macomber pool beyond.

As they are grazing them by the Jumna, they reach a dangerous whirlpool.

The corner of Broadway and Forty-second streets has been exploited in song and story as the world's most hazardous human whirlpool.

It might even engulf human vitality into the immense whirlpool of its own vast dreaming life.

Below, and at the only point of feasible approach for the disease-stricken, is a large cave, where the water bubbles up warm, and forming innumerable small whirlpools before it breaks again into a stream, and mingles its waters with those of a torrent below.

My feet actually seemed slipping into some irresistible whirlpool.

And then, when he had recovered, when he was almost happy once again, the old thoughts, perhaps, came crowding back upon himthoughts of the futility of life, and the supremacy of death and the mystical whirlpool of the unknown, and the long quietude of the grave.

Even at the last of the tide the water here flowed swiftly and with ugly swirls and oily whirlpools that made the river seem vicious.

A favorite mental picture of some of these men (who have been instructed by teachers of occultism), is that of themselves as the centre of a great psychic whirlpool, drawing to themselves the persons, things and circumstances calculated to bring success and realization to them.

Indeed, this is the best means of illustrating the conflicting fears and aspirations which the great conflict has still further intensified in the racial whirlpool of Central Europe.

For nearly a year after the colossal blunder of the Lusitania, there existed in the deep undercurrents of German politics a most remarkable whirlpool of discord, in which the policy of von Tirpitz was a severe tax on the patience of von Bethmann-Hollweg and the Foreign Office, for it was they who had to invent all sorts of plausible excuses to placate various neutral Powers.

In a world like this, where there is no kind of stability, no possibility of anything lasting, but where everything is thrown into a restless whirlpool of change, where everything hurries on, flies, and is maintained in the balance by a continual advancing and moving, it is impossible to imagine happiness.

We passed near several small eddies and slight whirlpools, in which no bottom was found in the boats with 25 fathoms.

Even yet they are not fixed; occasionally a tree falls exposing the naked sand to the action of the wind, which swirls around the hole and moves the sand into a spiral whirlpool, lifting and carrying it away to be deposited again on the lea side of a distant valley, choking the pines and silver birch and sometimes destroying large woods and forests.

Under great emotional excitement the auric flames move around in swift circling whirlpools, or else swirl away from a centre.

A dead leaf that had been caught in an eddy attracted her attention; it tossed about for a minute, then a tiny whirlpool sucked it down.

Pieces of rock made small islands above the lost bridge, but below that the river fretted and shouted and plunged over jagged and twisted boulders for miles down the stream, throwing the spray high in air, madly spending its strength in treacherous whirlpools and deep seductive currentsever after to be wrathful, complaining, dangerous.

He would infinitely prefer eking out the scantiest existence in this manner to flinging himself into the turbulent whirlpool of town life.

One was caught in the turgid whirlpool which was the sporting element of the town, and would not leave it.

They were the centre of the crowd, the centre of observation, the centre of an unseen whirlpool of emotions that threatened to be overwhelming.

Half an hour later the blue-grass fields of Kentucky were spinning outside of the window in a vast green whirlpool.

The vessel was at times unmanageable from the violent whirlpools through which we passed, and was more than once whirled completely round upon her keel; but our former experience of a similar event prepared us to expect it, and the yards were as quickly braced round.

There are three celebrated whirlpools noticed in geographythe Maelstrom, the Euripus, near the island of Eubaea, and Charybdis, in the Straits of Sicily.