Citations:air-eddy

English citations of air-eddy

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• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  This lucky salvation was cheaply purchased by the loss of Queequeg's hat, who, while standing in the bows to prick the fugitive whales, had his hat taken clean from his head by the air-eddy made by the sudden tossing of a pair of broad flukes close by.