It was difficult to gauge the flow and counterflow of influences in the scene below stairs.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
She sat looking out over the waves of roofs of a city that had beaten her back at every turn, lashed her, and yet with the mysterious counterflow of oceans had carried her out a foot for every ten it flung her back.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst