side-current

But what worried me till it was a positive pain (in a side-current, of course, besides my chief torment) was a persistent poisonous impression, persistent as a venomous autumn fly, which one does not think about but which whirls about one, pesters one, and suddenly bites one painfully; it was only a reminiscence, an incident of which I had never spoken to anyone in the world before.

A Raw Youth 2003

I only remember one moment when his intensity concentrated itself in a straightforward, unmistakable emotion, without side-current or back-water.

The Story of My Life Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 1908

At last we came into the power of a side-current that set to the right bank, and I strove with my feet to draw with it.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

At last we came into the power of a side-current that set to the right bank, and I strove with my feet to draw with it.

Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

Here the otherwise insignificant presentation of the three-cupped woodspurge, representing originally a mere side-current of the stream of consciousness, becomes the intellectual symbol or fetich of the whole psychosis forever after.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899

This was merely a grotesque side-current of thought.

What Necessity Knows Lily Dougall 1890

He not only had not strength to stand alone, but he belonged to a peculiar side-current of English thought.

Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868