back-eddy

No wonder that progress had passed to the right and to the left of this spot, leaving it untouched, a blind back-eddy given over to goblin-dreams and nightmare memories.

Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

I found the village of Stregoicavar a dreamy, drowsy little village that apparently belied its sinister cognomen -- a forgotten back-eddy that Progress had passed by.

People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

Urged forward by their bloodthirsty brethren behind, those attackers in front succeeded in pushing past and over the defenders, leaving chariot-borne archers and steel-clad cavalry bobbing behind like boats trapped in a churning back-eddy at the bend of a river.

Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

But for the moment he was safe and quiet here in the back-eddy below the falls.

The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

The men nodded and again began to ply their paddles vigorously, keeping close to the border between the main stream and a back-eddy by this part of the right bank.

Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917

A well-dressed throng, well-fed, amiable and animated, looking ever forward, the resistless tide of affairs that gave it being bore it onward; it passed the onlooker as a strong current passes flotsam in a back-eddy, with no pause, no turning aside.

The Fortune Hunter Louis Joseph Vance 1906

"It's a kind of back-eddy sort of place, and I imagine, a couple of hundred years ago, the community was too poor to support one of these 'progressive' school systems that made Illiterates out of the people in the cities.

Null-ABC H. Beam Piper 1934