Example Sentences

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It was in the heat of sultry afternoon, the air stirless, the water in the channel warm and rank-smelling.

From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Bevan, Tom

The trees have bent above me like tall lovers, The stars return their slow, familiar way, And a great, stirless quiet comes and covers The traveller resting at the end of day.

From Ships in Harbour by Morton, David

You, who would never leave us to our sleeping, But ever nosed us out of bed to play, How can we ever think of you as keeping So strangely still, as stirless as the clay?

From Ships in Harbour by Morton, David

The moon is up—how still the yellow beams That slantwise lie upon the stirless air, Sprinkled with frost, like pearl-entangled hair, O'er beauty's cheeks that streams, How the red light of Mars their pallor mocks.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

In the stirless, suave, and aromatic air hung an impalpable yet ineluctable hint of melancholy....

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph