dead-calm

No ominous figures stirred, the dead-calm air carried no scent of danger, and as the pale winter sun pushed its way above the southeastern horizon and shed its anemic light on a scene of peace, the deer relaxed and began to browse, storing up energy toward the long frigid night.

Till Hell Freezes Over Barton, Anne, 1931- 2003

To get the best view of the town you must row out beyond harbour and mole, or, better still, swim out, on one of those dead-calm days that every summer brings — days when the yellow cliffs across the bay send down perfect golden shadows in the blue mirror of the sea.

The Way Home 2003

As they navigated the pine-needle path, they were aware that the west wind had dropped and the lake was dead-calm; the setting sun still struck the treetops on the eastern shore.

The Fourth Hand Irving, John, 1942- 2001

The Commander's face was also dead-calm and drawn tight with the same premonition which was gathering suddenly in the pit of Kirk's stomach.

The Fate of the Phoenix Culbreath, Myrna 1979

Deep, deep, deep in Eva's eyes I saw a craft sighting, 'neath a cloudless azure sky, the dark blue Symplegades; heard in my ears the jargon, loud and near me, of the sailors; and faintly o'er the distance of the dead-calm sea rose intermittently the sound of brine-foam at the clashing rocks ....

Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel 1928

Beyond spread the dark steely mirror of the dead-calm sea.

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

"It is a gorgeous, tropical night, not a cloud or feather of one; a big moon, and dead-calm sea; just a slight, even roll; we have sat over pipes after tea, chatting of old days, and present things, and the mysterious future, sitting right aft on the poop, with the moonlit wake creaming astern."

In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Erskine Childers 1896

Mackerel still come in very slow, sometimes none at all: the dead-calm nights play the deuce with the Fishing, and I see no prospect of change in the weather till the Mackerel shall be changing their Quarters.

Two Suffolk Friends Francis Hindes Groome 1876

Thereafter the engines were stopped, and the dead-calm that followed, -- that feeling of unnatural quietude to which we have referred elsewhere, -- did more perhaps to arouse all the sleepers, readers, and dreamers on board, than if a cannon had been fired.

Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters Francis B. Pearson 1859

This, however, is worthy of record, that we passed the famous Bay of Biscay in a dead-calm.

Six Months at the Cape 1859