eddy water

Its two parts were divided by a stretch of eddying water no more than knee-deep.

Jonathan threw pebbles into a pool of slowly eddying water along the bank with his right hand.

They are all "live" projections of tiny plastic forms floating in a tank of eddying water.

Sam shuffled along, clutching hard, and looking down into the pale eddying water as if it was a chasm in the mountains.

Beneath it was a shadowy shape in the patch of gloom which the moon threw far out upon the softly eddying water.

But beyond that, plans for his sojourn in Afghanistan remained uncertain, and appeared to have become caught up in the eddying waters of Afghan politics.

They had found a little alley between the backs of two rows of houses, a thin sliver of space that sloped down towards the eddying water.

The eddying water made little gurgling noises against the rock, and strands of seaweed rose and fell like the floating hair of some mysterious underwater creature.

Sam shuffled across slowly and cautiously behind Frodo, looking down at the dark eddying water below his feet as if it was a chasm of many fathoms deep.

A related concept is a "swirlhole": A hole in rock in a streambed eroded by eddying water, with or without sand or pebble abrasives.

Danced to a violin sonata by Giuseppe Tartini, this 1993 group work conveys the feeling of peacefully changing tides and eddying waters, though not at all literally.

The remaining hundred yards was eddy water; and though Pickett fought hard, swimming among the Frenchman's lead cattle, to hold the two bunches separate, they mixed in the river.

Intimations of swirling clouds, or perhaps eddying water, are obscured by veils of wispy color that soften their contours and enhance the suggestion of interactive natural phenomena.

Timed to the tide, the trim brig came into the lee of the island, where eddying waters seemed to hold her and there was no breeze to drive her from shelter.

The most recent piece in the show - an "Ocean Waves Quilt," all soft blues and lavenders, with a surface densely stitched to evoke eddying water - is dated 1942.

The entire village may well have turned out for the day that men and horses - using a block and tackle or a wooden crane - set the lattice in place over the eddying waters.

The moment the pursuers stepped on to the balcony it broke under them, and they dropped pell-mell into the eddying waters, while Michael, who had thrown off his gown and dived, was able to swim away.

Barstools and beer coolers were floating inside the St. Marks River Cantina, and just the top of Bo Lynn's Grocery and Market was poking out of the dark, eddying water.

A gentleman and a lady in kimonos, lolloping gorillas, a snarling lioness, a jungle prince and lapping, eddying water swirled across the stage in swift-changing scenarios that also had the quality of a child's fantasy.

Amid curving lines like eddying water are scenes from rural life - men fishing, women farming - and remarkable depictions of wild animals, ranging from storks rendered with calligraphic economy to turtles seen as if in X-ray from above, to little beetles flitting across the surface of a pond.

One only object rears itself above the eddying waters; this is the mast of a vessel long since wrecked in attempting to cross the bar, and it still stands, a dismal witness of the destruction that has been, and a boding prophet of that which is to come.'

A conceptual model of early behavior and migration of green sturgeon early life intervals based on the Kynard et al. 2005 study follows: Females deposit eggs at sites with large rocks and moderate or eddy water flow that keeps the large, dense, poorly adhesive eggs from drifting, so eggs sink deep within the rocks.