At Bosinkusu he was delayed by a storm, a mad, whirling brute of a storm that lashed the waters of the river and swept the Zaire broadside on towards the shore.
Where the river is cutting into a bank and the current strong, the wind whirling the cabin around, now with the current and again across or against it, there is every reason to look for being driven ashore and wrecked.
It has a short divided skirt, a slim blouse with blue-and-white striped collar; there is a small hat to match, and the young cyclists whirling around on their missions of mercy are a pleasant sight for very sad eyes.
Suddenly he gave a shout, and the others looked to see a small object which came whirling like a bomb through the mist.
She ducked under it and discovered one of her fish whirlingin a small eddy.
They emerged suddenly into view, and as his heart sank again, he saw that the leading warrior was whirling a trophy swiftly around his head.
The whirling circles of fire with living beings inside of them filled him with terror.
He rushed back and forth, uttering continuous shouts, whirling each torch until it made a perfect circle of fire.
As he leaped to and fro, shouting and whirling his torches, he drove the herd straight toward the camp on the river where the English officers and chiefs were even now asleep.
The wind shrieks about the house, whirling the fine snow in hissing eddies past the corners and driving it on into long, curling crests across the fields.
She loved the graceful, rhythmical movement of the waltz, the rapid whirling round and round which made her heart beat tumultuously, the languorous music which intoxicated.
I dare say you have often noticed little eddies of wind whirling up dust and leaves, or any light substances which happened to be in the way; when these occur on a larger scale they are called whirlwinds.
The morning wore on; the storm continued raging; no news came from the white world; mankind had vanished in the whirling snow.
Dead of the dust, she revived to the snow: it was fearfully white, for it was all dead faces; she crushed and waded through those that fell, while multitudes came whirling upon her from all sides.
City whose gleeful tides continually rush or recede, whirling in and out with eddies and foam!
Imagine two whirling balloons, a hundred feet in height, and so black that they stood out from the surrounding gloom, showing like pitch against the dimly lit sky behind.
Whirling at breakneck pace around a sharp turn, it stopped precipitately, amid a blinding cloud of dust, to deposit its passengers at the depot.
A moment more, and clouds of dust and débris, the outriders of the coming tempest, rushed madly through the streets in whirling columns towering far above the city.
They have all been uprooted from their several soils and ancestries and plunged together into one vortex, whirling irresistibly in a space otherwise quite empty.
Every whirling atom, every changing relation, and every incidental perspective would be a part of it.
He sat up, gasping for breath, brushed the sand from his face and eyes, and as soon as his whirling wits settled a little, comprehended what had happened.
He dropped heavily into a big arm-chair and waited, his brain whirling and seething, his nerves on edge and screeching.
And it was as if Life itself had caught him and locked him with a woman in the whirling of its Great Wheel.
A prodigal driven by the lust of speed, dissipating his divine energies in this fierce whirling of the wheels; scattering his youth to the sun and his strength to the wind in the fury of riotous "biking.
October, with its whirling leaves and bursts of fitful sunshine, had worn itself away and given place to November mists.
The episode seemed a chapter of late autumn, with witheredwhirling leaves and frost-stricken flowers.
It did not take long for Lesbia to be introduced to the jolly company, and she was soon whirling round with a partner.
Will, when ten minutes had passed, with no cessation of the fury of the wind and whirling white flakes.
The fellow who was whirling the lasso flung up his arm and plunged headlong from the horse's back to the dust of the street.
All the ardour and passion which she had repressed with maidenly pride, and had not even betrayed by a look, now burst forth in a sudden flame, and threatened to set my whirling brain on fire.
Often when the waggon comes, and the little rick is loaded, the 'pitch' of hay on the prong as it is flung up carries with it a snake whirling in the air.
A north-easterly snowstorm was blowing furiously, straight up the St Lawrence, making Quebec a partly seen blur to the nearest American patrols and the Heights of Abraham a wild sea of whirling drifts to the nearest British sentries.
Why, sir, it was a wild, whirling gray night, with the air full of sleet and rain, and my father sent me over to Redruth town to bring home some trade or other.
Jones, sweeping his arm in a wide circle as he pointed into the fog wreaths that were whirling round us.
The Gauchos pursued at a reckless pace, twisting their horses about with the most admirable command, and each man whirling the balls round his head.
