stormless
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- stormlessly adverb
- stormlessness noun
Etymology
Origin of stormless
Example Sentences
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No—our waking thoughts Suffer a stormless shipwreck in the pools Of sullen slumber, and arise again Disjointed: only dreams—where mine own self Takes part against myself!
From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
On that clear and stormless night following the days of plague and famine, a hundred thousand hungry creatures came out from their retreats to hunt for food.
From Kazan by Curwood, James Oliver
Each tide, though stormless, carried the Columbia a little higher up the beach; and the tugs, trying singly to move her, only broke their hawsers and wasted precious time.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 by Various
But, as the days had been all stormless alike, he had been obliged to adapt himself only to the conditions of the bag, and not at all to the state of the weather.
From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various
Your place is Heaven, a stormless nightless home?
From Songs, Sonnets & Miscellaneous Poems by Runciman, Thomas
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