Whirlpools Sentence Examples

The tidal currents, or races, or roost (as some of them are called locally, from the Icelandic) off many of the isles run with enormous velocity, and whirlpools are of frequent occurrence, and strong enough at times to prove a source of danger to small craft.

Sometimes enormous rocks have fallen from the mountains and spread over the river-bed causing huge whirlpools.

But just before reaching the Uaupes there is a long series of reefs, over which it violently flows in cataracts, rapids and whirlpools.

In the fifth and last section from Old Moldova to Orsova and the Iron Gates the river is enclosed by mountains and rocky banks, and the obstacles to navigation are rocks and whirlpools.

I wrote a lot of very lurid, melodramatic stories about people being trapped by the tide and swept away by whirlpools.

We anchored in go to a aerobics studio whirlpools see some friends.

As the movement of one particle in a closely-packed universe is only possible if all other parts move simultaneously, so that the last in the series steps into the place of the first; and as the figure and division of the particles varies in each point in the universe, there will inevitably at the same instant result throughout the universe an innumerable host of more or less circular movements, and of vortices or whirlpools of material particles varying in size and velocity.

Throughout this perilous transitional period Sigismund's was the hand which successfully steered the ship of state amidst all the whirlpools that constantly threatened to engulf it.

The adults-only Solarium areas feature restful pools, whirlpools, and plenty of secluded lounging space.

A free-form pool with a 40 foot waterslide, waterfalls, and whirlpools is enjoyable for both adults and children.

There are 271 suites available at the property, with rustic themes including whirlpools, fireplaces, and lofts.

The attached four-star hotel, The Mountain Grande Lodge and Spa, offers outstanding accommodations and many rooms and suites include in-room fireplaces and whirlpools, kitchenettes, and other superior amenities.

The four story interactive tree house includes twelve splashtastic levels, and the park's lazy river, jumbo whirlpools, mat racing slides, funnel slide, wave pool, and toddler play areas are other great features.

The hotel we're staying at has five indoor swimming pools and three whirlpools.

The junction of the great river Beni with the Madeira is at the Madeira Fall, a vast and grand display of reefs, whirlpools and boiling torrents.

We went down a hundred and twenty feet in an elevator that we might see the violent eddies and whirlpools in the deep gorge below the Falls.

This stage of religion is well illustrated by the Red Indian custom of offering sacrifice to certain rocks, or whirlpools, or to the indwelling spirits connected with them; the rite is only performed in the neighbourhood of the object, it is an incident of a canoe or other voyage, and is not intended to secure any benefits beyond a safe passage past the object in question; the spirit to be propitiated has a purely local sphere of influence, and powers of a very limited nature.

Just below this the mountains close in on either side of the Maranon, forming narrows or pongos for a length of 35 m., where, besides numerous whirlpools, there are no less than thirty-five formidable rapids, the series concluding with three cataracts just before reaching the river Imasa or Chunchunga, near the mouth of which La Condamine embarked in the t8th century to descend the Amazon.