It was said on the river, that those who sank beneath its surface were never seen again, and in looking over into those whirlpools and swirling eddies, one might well believe this to be true.
A few belated flakes of snow mingled with the dust that eddied about in little whirlpools of wind.
A few drops of rain mingled with the dust that eddied about in little whirlpools of wind.
A dangerous current sets through the strait between Resolution Island (Tudjaqdjuaq) and the mainland, forming whirlpools which menace every ship that attempts the passage.
The passage through the rapids of the fjords was very dangerous, as in the whirlpools and overfalls the bulky boats were easily capsized.
Whirlpools of red dust, rising skyward like tongues of furiously swirling flame, travelled with extraordinary velocity along the ground.
In the passage or sound between Scarba and the extremity of Jura, is a terrible run of tide, which, contending with the sunk rocks and islets of that foul channel, occasions the succession of whirlpoolscalled the Gulf of Corrievreckan.
Sometimes small rocky dikes are so near each other that they form for several miles an uninterrupted succession of cascades and whirlpools (chorros and remolinos); these are properly what are called rapids (raudales).
The descending waters are separated from those that flow back by a great body of stagnant water, in which, the equilibrium being disturbed, whirlpools are formed very dangerous for boats.
We passed on the south of this island without difficulty; northward, a chain of small rocks, half covered at high water, forms whirlpools and rapids.
These whirlpools were seldom regarded as serious, for our boats were too wide and heavy to be readily overturned in them, although we saved ourselves more than one upset by throwing our weight to the opposite side.
Here, the stream which was spread a mile wide above, had choked down to two hundred feet; small violent whirlpools formed at the abrupt turns in this so-called canyon and the water tore from side to side.
The whirlpools in the wider channels below these rapids were the strongest we had seen, and had a most annoying way of holding the boats just when we thought we had evaded them.
He reports that inside there are whirlpools and currents in incessant conflict, upon which his barque was tossed to and fro like a ball, amidst the horrible roar of the whirlpools and currents around him.
But its surface was always changing, whirlpools forming and revolving, then disappearing in long wrenched strands of water.
Of Caucasus, whose icy summits shone Among the stars like sunlight, and around Whose caverned base the whirlpools and the waves 355 Bursting and eddying irresistibly Rage and resound forever.
Whirlpools appear to be no other than the eddies of the water formed by the action of two or more opposite currents.
One of these horrible hot whirlpools swung under the Roraima and pulled her down on her beam ends with the suction.
The sea was torn into huge whirlpools that careened toward the open sea.
In the midst of this perilous strait, and hard by a group of rocks called "the Hen and Chickens," there lay in my boyish days the wreck of a vessel which had been entangled in the whirlpools and stranded during a storm.
The canoe in which he was seated was caught in one of the many whirlpoolsformed by the cataract, and driven broadside toward the vortex.
It is located on a broad and beautiful plateau, commanding a full view of several miles of the river with its whirlpools and sweeping currents.
Between them the river rushes over piles of boulders, or shoots with frightful velocity past the bases of impending crags, up which one must quickly scramble or else be carried into the boilingwhirlpools below.
A stroke that sent the water swirling aft in rings, circles, whirlpools and a smother of foam!
Tiny whirlpools formed at the ends of the spoons, and the single race was under way.
I hoped that soon this ugly creature, who was relishing in advance the joys of pillage and plunder, would find in the whirlpools of the Piave a uniform to suit him!
All their vain glory had been drowned forever in the whirlpools of the Piave and it was now for us to finish them.
The conceptions of these whirlpools may doubtless be connected with reports of dangerous currents in the north.
The water sends to me an ice-laden air, which revives me as I struggle upwards and onwards, watching the whirlpools and cascades as the water angrily struggles to force its way through the iron barriers by which it is hemmed in.
The headlands drip with the unceasing spray, and at their feet are twin whirlpools that go down to the very bowels of the earth, according to tradition, and wash the feet of Sangjang, ruler of Hades, himself.
Ambition and pleasure--vast whirlpools of thought--had just opened themselves a channel in my mind, and thither the tides of my desires were hurried and lost.
Now those whirlpools had lost their power, and the channels, being dammed up, flowed back upon my breast.
For steamers and large boats there is not the slightest danger, but to the native in his little sacayan with its bamboo outriggers these whirlpools are objects of dread and fear.
The water bubbles around him and for three miles littlewhirlpools go racing up the channel.
At the narrow entrance between San Sebastian and Ayucatan it breaks up into hundreds of small whirlpools that make the water hiss and bubble for a distance of nearly three miles.
The spray on his brow Was flung cold from the whirlpools of water below; The frail wooden balcony shook in the sound Of the torrent.
Yet we glide as smoothly through the eddies and whirlpools of the beautiful Gap as a Sound steamer passes through Hell Gate.
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