The sound of the angry torrent slowed to a hungry maelstrom to a racy gurgle.
Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Not much sand this high.” But she could feel them sinking deeper into the maelstrom.
Herbert, Frank
Dune
28 July.—Four days in hell, knocking about in a sort of maelstrom, and the wind a tempest.
Bram Stoker
Dracula
And I’ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition’s flames before I give him up.
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Paris is a maelstrom where everything is lost, and everything disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea.
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
With his gaze on the depths, he recognized a maelstrom of boiling rapids there, the mirror of his life—precipitous currents and plunges, all movement gathering up all substance.
Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune
The view through the door was blinding in its intensity: a swirling maelstrom of color and light.
Gaiman, Neil
Neverwhere