"Maelstrom" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Merlin and Mr. Brudenell, as they saw a tremendous sea break in thunder over the wreck, which was instantly whirled violently around as in the vortex of a maelstrom. ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... the center of the maelstrom and laughed at him—a capitalist keeping pace with indigestion, racing against time. Little wonder that he ...
— The Jucklins - A Novel • Opie Read
... exchange, he heard the cries: 'Brown's getting five thousand dollars a month writing serials for Hitch's;' 'Smith sold two novels on synopsis for thirty thousand dollars;' 'Green's signed up with Tagwicks for four years at two thousand dollars a month writing problem novels.' Into the maelstrom of 'Dollars, Dollars, Dollars,' the sensitive brains of all America were drifting, throwing overboard ideals and aspirations in order to keep afloat in ...
— The Parts Men Play • Arthur Beverley Baxter
... he leaped into the gangway so ferociously that the pirates scrambled over the side, brown men and white, preferring to take their chances in the sea. As he charged on, I lost sight of him in the maelstrom of struggling figures. On my left a Lascar was fighting for his life against one of our new crew. On every side men were splashing and ...
— The Mutineers • Charles Boardman Hawes
... seething at the vortex of the wordy battle for emancipation. The Ouvidor, the smart street of the town, so narrow that carriages were not allowed upon it, was the center of the maelstrom. Here crowded politician and planter; lawyers, journalists, and ...
— Through stained glass • George Agnew Chamberlain
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