36 collocations for swirl

He was a strong swimmer, but his full strength had not come back, and the fury of the waves was swirling trees like straws.

The mighty flood ran free, tearing up trees by their roots as it ran, detaching masses of rock, dissolving islands into swirling sand and drift, carving new channels, making and unmaking the land.

For perhaps two miles, the painter followed the creektaking here and there from clear pool or swirling eddy a fish for his creel, and pausing often, as he went, to enjoyin artist fashionthe beauties of the ever changing landscape.

Quickly they settled upon the fields in swirling drifts, so that the land all about lay white as with snow.

I reached the edge, and looked down; but could see nothing save a boil of dust clouds swirling hither and thither.

Just beneath the surface the circular outline of a second mine could also be detected entangled in the wire and swirling round in the current beneath the trawler's counter.

Slipping from the heights, gathering in avalanches, it booms and roars like thunder, and makes a glorious show as it sweeps down the mountain-side, arrayed in long, silken streamers and wreathing, swirling films of crystal dust.

For perhaps two miles, the painter followed the creektaking here and there from clear pool or swirling eddy a fish for his creel, and pausing often, as he went, to enjoyin artist fashionthe beauties of the ever changing landscape.

Though Hazen pushed her, we were slow in coming to town and before we reached Hazen's office the swirling snow was whirling downa pressure of driving, swirling flakes like a heavy white hand.

The giants of the forest fell, groaning, into the boiling, swirling flood which leapt to catch them and swallowed them up with a hideous, hissing noise.

Observe those whirling and swirling thought-forms as they are thrown off from that business-house.

It beat upon it in wild, swirling gusts.

The lamp-lit cottage room faded; the sound of November winds and swirling leaves outside died away.

The river, extending in one turbid, yellow, swirling mass from the walls of the houses on the quay on one side, to those of the houses opposite, was bringing down with it fragments of timber, carcases of animals, large quantities of hay and straw;and amid the wreck we saw a cradle with a child in it, safely navigating the tumbling waters!

Axe and spear, sword and pike and gisarm smote and thrust and swayed; stumbling feet spurned and trampled yielding forms that writhed, groaning, beneath the press; faces glared at faces haggard with the dawn, while to and fro, through swirling mist and acrid smoke, the battle rocked and swayed.

But she was not terrified in the dark, swirling night of her destiny.

New books!" 18 Mo swirled special noodles around in her bowl.

Not without a severe struggle did Jupiter Pluvius consent to turn off the tap, but at length the sun broke through the hanging clouds and sent their sodden grey fragments swirling up the Ferozepore Nullah to break in foamy wreaths round the ragged cliffs of Kulan.

On a slope opposite, the queer, flat-roofed native village perched, and above it swirled a misty pall which hid all but the bases of the hills.

We marked with some apprehension the swiftness of the oily current which came swirling round the piers, and soon we found ourselves stuck fast about half-way under the bridge, apparently unable to force our boat another inch against the stream which boiled past.

My object was not so much to tempt the speckled trout with gaudy fly from quiet pool or swirling riffle, as to follow the windings of the stream, and spy out the quiet nooks, where the sun comes filtering through the trees, dappling the water; or resting in the shadows where the thick foliage defies its penetrating rays, and spreads a somber hue on mossy rock or bed of ferns.

The blood-red sun went down behind threatening clouds on that terrible day, and the second morning came in with a wintry storm of icy winds and swirling snow.

The windows, the music, the flowers, all were metaphors of her: and, as the organ swirled his soul along in the rapids of its passionate, prayerful sound, it seemed to him that Alice and he already stood at the gate of Heaven!

Through the square opening thus discovered Sofia saw a ladder of several slimy steps washed by black, oily waters that sucked and swirled sluggishly round spiles green with weed and ooze.

she replied, and continued swirling the stuff round and round.

36 collocations for  swirl