A still greater mystery was propounded by the few observers who asserted that they had seen buzzards soaring in a dead calm, maintaining their elevation and their speed.
Everyone will readily realize that when walking at the rate of four to eight miles an hour in a dead calm the "relative wind" is quite inappreciable to the senses and that such a rising air would not be noticed.
Allowing that a dead calm exists, a body moving in the atmosphere creates more or less resistance.
By daylight the wind had fallen sufficiently to enable them to set all sail, but they agreed that it would have been better to have had a dead calm, so that they might have pulled the boat in the direction they wished to go.
While she was still in the chops of the Channel it fell a dead calm, and a thick fog came on.
The current rapidly carried the ship towards it, the wind fell to a dead calm, and it was impossible to anchor on account of the depth of the sea.
Happily a dead calm came on, and at daybreak land was seen about eight leagues off.
Suddenly the wind fell, a dead calm commenced, which lasted for eight days.
Moreover, there was a dead calm; if they had wanted to get away from this exposed place, how could they?
It was a dead calm, but the impetus he gave to the bark shot it far across the lake, whose surface was soon covered with a thick cloud of white smoke.
It then fell a dead calm, and the schooner was completely lost to sight.
At last it fell a dead calm; we then got the oars out again, and were about to pull back when we heard guns in the offing, and I guessed that they must be fired by the ship of war the consul had told us of.
His coat, instead of hanging on him like a shirt on a handspike, had begun to show indications of muscle covering the bones, and his vest no longer flapped against him like the topsail of a Dutchman in a dead calm.
Gradually the Evening Star overhauled the mission-ship, but before she had quite overtaken her, the wind, which had been failing, fell to a dead calm.
By that time a dead calm prevailed, compelling the fishermen to "take things easy.
It was curious weather that night: violent gusts of wind from the east and south-east, with intervals of dead calm -- just as if they came off high land.
Next day we were surprised by brilliantly clear weather and a dead calm.
Imagine an immense plain that you have to cross in thick fog; it is dead calm, and the snow lies evenly, without drifts.
At midday of the day we clawed off Tierra Del Fuego the Elsinore was rolling in a dead calm, and all afternoon she rolled, not a score of miles off the land.
One hour we may be rolling sickeningly in a dead calm, and the next hour we may be dashing fourteen knots through the water and taking off sail as fast as the men can clew up and lower away.
The rain, beginning gently, in dead calm, grew into a deluge of enormous streaming drops.
It was a dead calm, the sun perpendicular over us, actually burning that part of our bodies which rose clear of the water.
Well, I see nothing to alarm us at present, provided it don't fall a dead calm, and then we must take to our boat as soon as he takes to his; we are four miles from him at least.
Again the wind blew strong--it ceased, and it was a dead calm.
It then fell a dead calm: signals were thrown out by the other yacht, but could not be distinguished, and, for the last time, they sat down to dinner.
I lost no time in putting her on another tack, but we had not proceeded far in this direction when I found the wind lull, and presently the sail drooped to the mast, and there was a dead calm.
The weather continually alternated from a dead calm to a light breeze: the wind frequently shifted, but I had no strength left to attend to the sail--the boat was abandoned to its own guidance, or rather to that of the wind.
Toward midnight the wind fell suddenly to a dead calm, and, looking out, I saw that the moon was coming very bright in its rising from behind a heavy cloud over the sea.
They were doubling the Point of Ayre, when suddenly the wind fell to a dead calm.
It was a dead calm; the sea was like a mirror, and the advancing boats, as their oars rose and fell in the water, gave you the idea of creatures possessed of life and volition, as they rapidly forced their way through the yielding fluid.
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