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  • 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

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