But the collie would pay no heed; or, rather, she paid this heed, that she broke into a race, and flew down the road to the Ford till she was no more than a black blur beyond a whirling eddy of dust.
Here the cluster of mushroom rafts were caught in a little eddy and drawn out of the swiftly flowing current.
Once one of the little children was caught in a whirling eddy of red dust, and its mother rushed into the deadly stuff to seize it and bring it out.
In a little while she returned to the shanty-boat and dropped out of the eddy on her way down the river.
He said he 'lowed to land along of the same eddy with a woman, an' she shot him almost daid!
Mrs. Carline had run into the great dead eddy at the foot of Yankee Lower Bar, turned up in the slow reverseeddy of the chute, and was coming by their boat at the slowest possible speed.
The dance broke up, the noise of voices lessened, one by one the lights went out, and the eddy was still again.
He steered into the eddy and the two men stepped out on the flat boat's deck to greet them.
Best of all now, in her great emergency, she knew shanty-boats, and as she gazed at the eddy and saw the fleet of houseboats there her heart leaped exultantly.
Away down in the old eddy he discovered a shanty-boat, and to cover his involuntary exclamation of satisfaction he said: "Shucks!
Nelia Crele looked around as she left the eddy and saw that her houseboat was but a trifle upon a surface containing hundreds of square miles.
Terabon, after a little while, pulled up the eddytoward them; he was willing to take a long chance.
She drove the little automobile down to Chester, put it in the Star Garage, then walked to the river bank and gave the eddy a critical inspection.
In forty minutes he was dipping his sweep blades to work his way into the eddy where several small passenger craft were on line-ends from a large, substantial craft which was brightly lighted by lanterns and a big carbide light.
The city lights sparkled as they turned in the eddy and ran up to the shanty-boat town.
He said a lady shot him because he 'lowed to land into the same eddy with her.
If it was an old river man, the boat would drop into some little eddy at Caruthersville or down below; but a stranger on the river would likely shoot across into the gamblers' eddy tempted, perhaps, by the three boats already there.
They found a cool little pool, an eddy or backwater, where the water standing over white sand was fairly clear, and the three, stripping, sprang in.
It was floating along, when an eddy brought it into this cove.
Ten minutes later she was pulled ashore out of theeddy below, very much water-logged, and manned by a drenched and disgruntled crew.
With luck, a few of the individual timbers would float ten, even twenty, miles before some chance eddy or fortuitous obstruction would bring them to rest.
The Lafayette took again her position in the eddy to the north of the battery.
She then steamed quickly up, hugging the east bank, where the eddy current favored her advance.
Eddy says he cannot sing,--"not till mother is a-going to be well.
Ellen and Edith and Eddy and Aunty Brown keep up the tragedy and comedy and tragic-comedy of life as usual.
Eddy has been to Boston to Christmas, but can remember nothing but the coaches, all Kendall's coaches.
He put the lamp back upon the table, moving it farther out of the eddy from the door, where it would stay lighted against a possible pressing need.
In an instant Bounce started at full speed up the river, plunged into it, and, descending with fearful rapidity, swung round into the eddy behind the stone almost before his companions could divine what he meant to do.
Redhand was hurled violently into the eddy where the canoe had lain before the ascent was commenced, and was dragged safe to land by his comrades.
The goods were carried to the top of the fall, which was about fifteen feet high, then the canoe was shouldered by Waller and Bounce, and soon it floated in a calm eddy near the head of the cataract.
They waited awhile until another swift shadow swept around with the eddy beneath their feet.
Frank, clambering to a ledge of rock, swung his rod, and as the flies swept across an eddy there was a splash and a swirl and a sudden tightening of the line.
Frank went down overhead and as he felt himself being swept along toward the eddy he exerted all his energy in a struggle to regain his footing.
The water was yellow and turbulent, swung with an angry eddy among half-submerged willows, and made an angry clatter along stony shores.
The reeds might nod their heads in warning, and with tremulous gestures tell how the river was as cruel as it was strong and cold, and how death lurked in the eddy underneath the willows.
The silence in his ears was absolute, save for the occasional throb of thunder from a waterfall leaping out into the light of dawn a thousand feet below, and heard only when some wandering eddy of air pulsed upward from the depths.
Far across the pool, where an eddy sucked sullenly at the froth-patches as they swung by, the fisherman had just had a heavy rise.
They were not quite beyond the influence of the eddy when they reached the end of the tail.
Neither did the rapid tides affect the craft, which lay in an eddy that merely kept her steady.
It doubtless expended itself, however, a short distance in the offing, as its waters diffused themselves on the breast of the ocean; and it was this diffusion of the element that produced the eddy which had proved so nearly fatal.
Our drift is awful, or we are in an eddy tide here, sir!
Jason Eddy was one of the many drivers sent out on the road in an early day from New Jersey by "Commodore" Reeside, as James, the old stage proprietor, was frequently called.
Eddy was an expert driver, and it was said of him that "he could turn his team and coach on a silver dollar.
Again he appeared, and this time closer to us, for the eddy had somehow thrown him in shore where the water was not so deep.
Then an eddy caught him, and he went down out of sight again.
The ladies sang all of the latest Confederate songs, Eddy and Hersey in return singing the latest from the North.
Quickly as the movement was done, the boat was some twelve yards below the rock as she came round with her nose just in the lower edge of the eddy behind it, while from either side the current closed in on her.
They made a great effort to turn the boat's head into the eddy behind it, but as the line touched the rock its sharp edge severed the rope like a knife, and the boat shot away down the rapid.
Hunting Dog let go his hold and caught you, and managed to get into an eddy and cling to the rocks till we came down and took you on board.
There was a patch of sand swept up by the eddybelow the rock, and here Jerry was taken out and laid down.
There, you see, Caleb can have a little harbour up there on the shore, and one of you can go out to the end of the mole, and put a little ship into the water, and the eddy will carry it round to him.
She ran over to the brook, and followed down its bank to a spot where it widened out and a strong eddy made up against the hither shore, washing a slope of gravel.
No wonder Flock moaned--the eddy currents in the shiv were slowly cooking his hand; and the blister against his abdomen, where the shiv had been hidden during other rest periods, felt like raw acid.
She rubbed the backs of her thighs gingerly--and slowly, slowly, for the eddy currents did not permit you to move fast.
Bradley was a little slow getting off the edge of the steel-slat bed--nobody had warned her that the eddy currents in the tangler fields had a way of making metal smoke-hot.
You see there is a sort of little back eddy below the falls and to one side of it, and right there we'll find the best swimming of our lives.
Nothing at all unusual occurred and although they enjoyed their swim in the warm back eddy of the pool, they came away disgruntled and with a curious feeling that they had been cheated out of something.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eddy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
