

I say, watching as yet another filthy man stomps off in a maelstrom of curses.† It was like a gigantic rock in the flood, creating maelstroms in the current around it.† (source) Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid, 2010 screamed BB, and suddenly there was a sound louder and larger than the maelstrom of noise surrounding and consuming us.†įor a moment, the magicians floated in a maelstrom of storm clouds, chunks of fuselage, luggage, and spinning passengers still strapped to their seats.† (source) Christopher Paolini, Eragon, 2003Ī maelstrom of noise and activity in the galley, all the electric elements blazing and the ranges like kilns.† Submerged in the maelstrom, he knew neither who nor where he was.† (source) Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979īy the time his vision had settled, the dwarf had disappeared into a maelstrom of churning muck.† (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014įive wild Event Maelstroms swirled in vicious storms of unreason and spewed up a payment.† (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000įor a failure of imagination and in the darkness, it feels as if Werner has reached bottom, as if he has been whirling deeper all this time, like the Nautilus sucked under the maelstrom, like his father descending into the pits: a one-way dive from Zollverein past Schulpforta, past the horrors of Russia and Ukraine, past the mother and daughter in Vienna, his ambition and shame becoming one and the same, to the nadir in this basement on the rim of the continent where the apparition…† Now as he rounded the corner and left their sight, the camerlegno felt a maelstrom of emotions like nothing he thought possible in human experience.† (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994 In the past half year, the supposedly unoccupied house had played host to a maelstrom of humanity.† (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

And at the center of this maelstrom was the Countess Rostov's dining room with its two tables for twenty standing side by side.†
