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Yet should it unfasten itself and fall Eddying down till it find your face At some slight wind—best chance of all!

From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Corson, Hiram

No happy music this, Eddying through their nectar cups and calm!

From In Divers Tones by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

Eddying into every quiet bay, coquetting with every salient angle, moving to the melody of its own murmurs, it flows on serenely and musically.

From The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts by Holley, George W.

Eddying floats of creamy foam   Flecked the waters brown, As we rode up to cross the ford,   Rode up from yonder town.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean

—But as a leaf falls so falls weightless thought Eddying, and with a myriad dead leaves lies Bewildered, or in a little air awhile is caught Idly, then drops and dies.

From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John