Early in the morning there were only outgoing hosts; but soon eddies were seen in the swift current, Vortexes made by a single ant here and there forcing its way against the stream.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
Nay, gradually, as indeed I anticipated, the black Vortexes and deluges have subsided; and now that it is past, I begin to feel myself better for my travels after all.
"The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II."
Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once, one of these Vortexes shot downward, with projectile speed, rapidly assuming the terrible form of the trombe of a tornado, and where it struck the ground it tore everything to pieces-trees, houses, the very earth itself were ground to powder and then whirled aloft by the resistless suction.
"The Second Deluge"
Garrett P. Serviss