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Example sentences for "maelstroms"

Lexicographically close words:
madu; madwoman; mae; maeander; maelstrom; maesta; maestre; maestro; maestros; mag
  1. He may, like a storm-defying bird, be carried from his course by treacherous currents and battle with breakers or struggle in vain in the monstrous, invisible maelstroms that beset this ocean of air.

  2. On the shoreless deeps of the seas of gloom Sailing, we venture afar and wide, Where ever await the tempests of doom, Where the silent maelstroms lurk and hide, And the darkling reefs abide.

  3. It tore in frothing maelstroms through a thousand rocks, filling the night with a low thunder.

  4. Aldous knew little or nothing of knife-fighting; and he realized, also, that there was a strange weakness in his arms and body caused by his battle with the maelstroms in the chasm.

  5. He could do nothing for her, for it seemed impossible that any living creature could exist amid the maelstroms and rocks ahead.

  6. The current was soft and sluggish, with tiny maelstroms gurgling up here and there, like air-bubbles in boiling syrup.

  7. In that case these cannot be regarded merely as maelstroms like the Moskenström, but more like the true Ginnungagap.

  8. Sidenote: Maelstrom among the Irish] But it is also conceivable that the various currents in northern waters may have furnished food for these constantly recurring ideas about maelstroms and whirlpools.


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