Example Sentences

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Her place on deck had been wisely chosen, and, defended by the row of cabins at her back, she could watch in a dry windlessness the jovial riot of the seas.

From Daisy's Aunt by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)

When the agony of windlessness was gone and I could question him he assured me that the horses were well enough, but that he and his two companions were hungry.

From The Eye of Zeitoon by Mundy, Talbot

The factors in this expression are unseasonableness, not for dried leaves, but for prodigious numbers of dried leaves; direct fall, windlessness, month of April, and localization in France.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles