But imagine a being for whom a million years would be but as a flitting moment; to him the Milky Way would appear in a state of ceaseless agitation -- swirling with ``a fury of whirlpool motion.
And three times it sucks the vast billows down into the abyss with the deep whirlpool of the gulf, and it sends them up again into the air, and the wave lashes the stars.
Later, on the other hand, in Adam of Bremen, the whirlpool becomes more exclusively northern, and later still we shall get it even at the North Pole itself.
Such a gulf or whirlpool is called by the poet Virgil Caribdis, and in his poem he says it is in the strait by Sicily, as he says: 'Scilla lies on the right hand and the implacable Caribdis on the left.
Pentland Firth), and there was afterwards a whirlpool in the sea, where the water falls into the hole in the quern.
The whirlpool is also found among Orientals; thus Sindbad is drawn into it.
Sailing-vessels would meet with endless calms in the Whirlpool of Fleurieu; and steamers, which always take the shortest road, would gain no advantage by crossing it.
Had they all been sucked in by the terrible whirlpool which the ship had drawn round herself as she sank?
But thereabouts the regular currents diverging to the north and south have formed a kind of lake of calms, which is sometimes known as the "Whirlpool of Fleurieu.
Methinks I behold a ghastly limit to the wondrous existence I have held,--methinks that, after ages of the Ideal Life, I see my course merge into the most stormy whirlpool of the Real.
Behold, wild mariner, the vast whirlpooldraws thee to its stormy bosom!
Running along, I turn a bend and see a man's head above the water, washed about in a whirlpool below a great rock.
Still on we speed, shooting past projecting rocks, till the little boat is caught in a whirlpool and spun round several times.
In one, the "Emma Dean" is caught in a whirlpool and set spinning about, and it is with great difficulty we are able to get out of it with only the loss of an oar.
The broad, deep river meanders through the park, interrupted by many wooded islands; so I name it Island Park, and decide to call the canyon above, Whirlpool Canyon.
In the twinkling of an eye the old water-course was one wild, leaping, roaring, gyrating whirlpool of up-flung froth and twisting waves that bore in their eddying clutch the battling figure of a drowning child.
And then Cleek, wet, white, panting, dragged himself out of the clutch of the whirlpool and lay breathing heavily on the ground.
It was only the beginning of the whirlpool in which the farmer was caught.
For a description of the whirlpool rapids known as The Suck, see notes under number 63, "Untsaiyi', the Gambler.
They pulled up to the bank to wait until it became smooth again, but the whirlpool seemed to approach with wider and wider circles, until they were drawn into the vortex.
In passing the Chickamauga towns they had run the gauntlet of the hostile Cherokee, who pursued them for a considerable distance beyond the whirlpool known as the Suck, where the river breaks through the mountain.
From that awful height to look down securely upon the impetuous whirlpool of mankind, where blind fortune holds capricious sway!
How the wind whistles and the whirlpool roars; I never saw a storm so fierce as this!
It seemed to the doctor that he was caught in the whirlpool of a violent reaction.
Piccadilly drew her to it as the whirlpool draws the thing which inadvertently touches even the farthest outpost of its influence.
I do not believe this whirlpool is at all as generally visited as the falls, and perhaps it might not impress everybody as it did me.
Her visions had all fallen away from her, but she thought she heard the roar of the whirlpool below.
But they had not blotted out that vision of the precipice, the rocks, and the black, black whirlpool that awaited her at the end of the downward path.
It was as if upon that downward path she had suddenly caught a glimpse of the precipice at the end, the cruel rocks, the dreadful fall, the black, seething whirlpool below.
Even the tiniest thread of life could not escape the seething whirlpool of destruction.
She only heard the rush of the whirlpool as it closed over her head.
Outwards, still outwards, Till the blue walls are hidden, And in the blinding white radiance Of a whirlpoolof clouds, I awake.
Some of the simpler people believed that there was a whirlpool at the end of the cave, and that if this whirlpool took anything down, it never gave that thing, or sign or token of that thing, back again.
Mahomet was only fourteen; had no language but his own: much in Syria must have been a strange unintelligible whirlpool to him.
It is as an oasis in a turbulent sandstorm, a beneficent shelf of rock in a whirlpool of rapids.
Most wondrous to relate, immediately the storm of the air, the movement of the waves, and the swirl of the whirlpool all ceased, till the ship had long escaped from it.
And the whirlpool beginning to draw the ship towards itself, blessed Columba cast part of the earth of Saint Kiaranus into the sea.
Colum Cille was saved from thewhirlpool of Coire Bhreacain (Corrievreckan, between Jura and Scarba) on another (?
Some time ago a man at the Falls of Niagara was accustomed to run an elevator on Sunday to carry tourists up and down the cliff to the Whirlpool Rapids.
His love each day became more like a whirlpool which drags to itself and engulfs everything.
Moreover, the whirlpool seized him and plunged him more and more deeply with a power to which each day he offered less resistance, for the simple reason that the abyss appeared to him to be the abyss of happiness.
A revolving whirlpool is easily conceived and easily supplied; but the central torrent of Bernoulli, the infinite streams of particles of Le Sage, are an explanation far more inconceivable than the thing explained.
He knew all the time he was thus searching that Mary's doom must soon be sealed, if already she had not been hurled into the whirlpool of fire!
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