The dramas of love, of jealousy, of hatred, which play so awful a part in human existence, only form Eddies, perhaps it would be more true to say whirlpools, on the vast placid current of life.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
At length as they were proceeding slowly at a safe distance from an ugly looking mass of rocks, which projected to some distance into the water, and where there were dangerous looking Eddies, Jack noticed a steeple shaped rock higher than the rest, and at some little distance in shore.
"The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island"
Cyril Burleigh
The heat was great and some one opened the window and the snow came swirling, in little waves and Eddies, in and out, blown by the breeze-dark and heavy outside against the clouded sky, white and delicate and swiftly vanishing in the room.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole