maelstrom

The falukah plunged over a waterfall and was almost submerged, was caught again in a maelstrom and went twirling on in the blackness.

To his right fell a gleaming sheet of water, and below it was a maelstrom, that made one giddy by its terrific gyrations.

He escaped at last, dizzy from the maelstrom of conflicting emotions that had caught and whirled him.

It was of Jean Paul's doing: some single billow in that vast World-Mahlstrom of Humour, with its heaven-kissing coruscations, which is now, alas, all congealed in the frost of deat…