Nelson maybe finally gone - and died heroically

Usage examples of eddy.

Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb-- one engaged forward and the other aft--the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing.

The breeze upset them, the eddies near the ground upset them, a passing thought in the mind of the aeronaut upset them.

And here at the Cytaean mainland and from the Amarantine mountains far away and the Circaean plain, eddying Phasis rolls his broad stream to the sea.

On either side, to right and left the tree-girdle reached out toward the blue distance, thick close and unsundered, save where it and the plain which it begirdled was cleft amidmost by a river about as wide as the Thames at Sheene when the flood-tide is at its highest, but so swift and full of eddies, that it gave token of mountains not so far distant, though they were hidden.

They sagged and bowed, water breaching them in gouts and diluting the riverbed, eddying around the feet of the few remaining strikers, coiling like the gas above it, until with a shiver the Gross Tar reknit itself, healing the little rift that had paralysed it and confused its currents.

The little vessel continued to beat its way seaward, and the ironclads receded slowly towards the coast, which was hidden still by a marbled bank of vapour, part steam, part black gas, eddying and combining in the strangest way.

Froth curled around the cutwater, drawing eddies in the patch of surface Ilna could see through the scuttle.

In a quick look round the stage while Conrad Bone was announcing the next number, Astor noticed that Dexie Jordan had taken over from Eddy Edwards on bass guitar.

Here, back eddies had formed a swamp, and as she approached this protected area diplodocus became aware of a sense of security.

People flow between its banks, eddying at the doors of office towers and department stores.

Eddy, was well adapted for its purpose, and read by a professional elocutionist, not an adherent of the order, Mrs.

From the avenue of lime-trees showers of round, yellow leaves were flying through the air in tossing, eddying circles, and strewing the wet road and soaked aftermath of the hayfield with a clammy carpet.

Dry leaves eddied along the floors, whispering, blown by a bitterly cold breeze from the gargoyle-wreathed balcony overlooking Isse Harbor.

In the distance he could see other Qanska settling down to sleep: Protectors and their Nurturer mates, floating and twisting together in the eddy currents.

Had Eddy Gagan, our glorious full forward, looked a bit peeky on his last outing?