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whirlpool Noun a powerful circular current of water, into which objects floating nearby are drawn
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[A large fig tree in full leaf {101} grows upon it], and under it lies the sucking whirlpool of Charybdis. He felt that sooner or later he would have to re-enter that whirlpool of life, with its embarrassments and affairs to be straightened out, its accounts with stewards, quarrels, and intrigues, its ties, society, and with Sonya's love and his promise to her. Sancroft, living in that central deep of the fashionable whirlpool known among mortals as Berkeley Square. |
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