dead calm

On the third and fourth days the air was almost dead calm.

"Is it possible that we are to be caught in another dead calm?"

At dawn the next day there was a dead calm.

By good fortune, too, it was a dead calm between my father and me.

Even on a dead calm day all three factors will still apply.

Richard was surprised to hear the dead calm quality of his own voice.

"It would help if we had a dead calm," said Smith.

On the next stage of their voyage, they encounter a dead calm.

To add to our misery, it fell dead calm about the middle of the afternoon.

I dismissed the thought that it was dead calm outside now, and started up the ladder.

The sea, which had been a tempest, suddenly became almost dead calm.

The weather was dead calm; the wreck would still be there tomorrow.

He hurried up the stairs and stepped outside into a dead calm.

They wouldn't have helped much, anyway; summer was usually dead calm.

The day was as close to dead calm as those waters ever got.

Nor did she know at six o'clock when the dead calm settled down.

The air was dead calm: the dust settled where it had risen.

The sun came out, increasing the sultriness of the day, while the dead calm still held.

Both the President and Congress seem like sailors in a dead calm.

The captains took their ships inside and made them fast close to one another, where it was dead calm.

Even in that dead calm, the ladies turned green with sea-sickness.

Dead Calm is an American novel that was written in 1963.

Hardly, in this dead calm, but that was what he was going to have done.

I have many memories of running into strong headwinds, but today it was dead calm.

The fleet ran into a long, dead calm off the Azores.