Blinded by the swirling water, the youth dived headlong for the opening in a mad effort to escape the flood and get below that he might shut off the crushed turret from the rest of the submarine and hold the deluge in check.
One of the levers was thrown over, and immediately could be heard the swirling of water.
Duggie had a shabby little volume that he read for a minute or two at a time; then he would stop for five or ten and look at the sea swirling around a rock away below us.
Now and then a sort of tidal wave of lights and faces and frantic hands would swell rapidly toward them, lap them up, engulf them, and then go swirling back again to the middle.
Smoke was swirling across the road and the acrid fumes swept through the open windows of the bus, but there was no time now to close them.
The wind, swirling along with them, carried a heavy curtain of smoke.
Swirling strings bring us to a new scene of the world of shades.
In a ravishing climax of gentle chorus of quick plashing waves and swirling breeze the song sings on and the trumpet blows its line of tune to a ringing phrase of the clarinet.
Now with full power and swing the main notes ring in sturdy brass, while all around is a rushing and swirling (of harps and bells and wood and strings).
Suddenly we are in the dulcet mood (Quasi Andante, ma sempre un poco mosso) 'mid light waving strings and rich swirling harp, and soothing tones of flutes and muted horns.
Ahead of them bright flashes illumined the swirling fumes where bursting shells marked the destruction of some ammunition stores outside the city.
Above us scared birds swept or fluttered down wind; while others again came up swirling and swinging about, darting boldly through the smoke to catch the insects driven before the fire.
The cold mountain stream tumbling over ledges, swirling among rocks or rippling over pebble-strewn reaches, gurgled, splashed and bubbled with that wonderful medley of sounds that go to make the lullaby of the brook.
They burned, each with its own inward flame and light, like handfuls of burning jewels flung by some giant hand upon the swirling darkness.
Orion strode across the sky, a swirling nebula at his belt.
Then he was floating in what felt like waves of cosmic dust, swirling many-colored before his eyes.
Swiftly his shining eyes searched the foamy, swirling water.
There he wheeled, and continued his flight up the valley, his violent shadow every now and then, as he crossed the spaces of moonlight, projecting grotesquely out upon the swirling flood.
The boat began to go around in a great circle, ever coming nearer and nearer to the black, swirling center.
This they found to be the case, and they were soon safely beyond the swirling waters, and on their way back to Martopolis.
They couldn’t see the water, swirling and eddying below, but they could hear it sucking and gurgling against the hulls of the barges.
He was a black swirling bioplastic mass of something or other and he was doing a graceful tango directly in front of the TV screen, thereby blocking off from view the stout woman who needed a shave.
The black swirling mass was going gently to and fro.
I forgot the cigarette and glared across the room, trying to see through the black swirlingmass that stood in front of the TV screen.
You see the set of the tide far out in the lake, sliding, driving, crowding, hurrying in with smooth currents and swirling eddies, toward the corner of escape.
There was still an hour or so of daylight, and a beautiful place to fish where the stream poured swirling out into the lake.
The second phenomenon was a swirling of water round the after part of the ship, and this swirling went on until the water was white with a thin foam.
The swirling came to an end, and the thin white foam faded into flat sombre water.
The yacht throbbed more violently; the swirlingincreased furiously.
Adjusting our rods, and baiting our hooks with salmon roe, we crept down to where a little fall sent the water swirling around a rock, making a deep pool, and an ideal place for trout.
At Matoelan we hear that the swift river separating the great Temple from the secular world is in flood, the bridge broken down, and the supplementary raft impossible through the swirling current.
I bowed respectfully to my captain standing in the prow of the boat and looking across an expanse of swirling muddy water to the village on the bluffs beyond.
We heard also the great river that is called the Douro, rolling and humming and swirling beneath the roof of frozen snow which, in some places, stretched across it from bank to bank.
Something dark loomed up before him, amid the wall of white, swirling flakes.
They were now on the principal street of Riverside, and the lamps from the shop windows gleamed dimly on the swirling flakes, and drifts of snow.
There were few landings, the current, rather swift and smooth, swirlingalong the foot of the rocks, which rose vertically for 250 feet and were about four hundred feet apart.
I am inclined to think that the double turn of the swirling river where it enters Flaming Gorge is the place known at that time as the Green River Suck.
Notice that swirling eddy where the water is whirling about with the speed of a spinning top; let us remember this eddy and when the water is lower we will try to see what is happening at its bottom.
Too many days the clouds hang low and the swirling flakes make out-of-door pursuits difficult.
