For all around the windless air smoothed the swirling waves and lulled the sea to rest.
And quickly they sighted and sailed past his shrine and the broad banks of the river and the plain, and deep-flowing Calpe, and all the windless night and the day they bent to their tireless oars.
Sure, none had earned his ease As he, that windless morning when he drew Near silent Ithaca, gray in misty blue, And wondered on the old familiar scene, Which was to him as it had never been Aforetime.
But from up the valley the thunder of a hidden disturbance still boomed across the windless air.
She surged slowly beyond the cloud of bitter smoke that the musket had hung in the windless air.
The atmosphere was too windlessto come in and wrestle with the smell of frying, but he saw the day was golden as a draught waiting to be quaffed.
She grew as white as the drying linen on the windless air, as the family wash hung on the canal boat lines behind her.
It had been a windless day, and the priest's house was the only one consumed by the blaze.
No stir was in the dark andwindless meadows, Only the water, whispering in the shadows, That darkened nature lived did still proclaim.
Mr. Stone's figure moved; the sound of along sigh came out to Stephen in the windless garden.
From down the slope and almost hidden by the bulk of the rock, a little wand of smoke stood up in the windless air, to break at last into tiny shreds and curls of nothingness.
The soft glow of the match spread in the windless air, penetrating the darkness.
The snow began at last, drifting down out of a windless sky.
The heat of the fire and the heat of the summer sun in a windless sky made the valley floor a sweat-bath in which the loggers worked stripped to undershirts and overalls, blackened with soot and grime.
You must cut away all the brush that has grown in, chop it into short lengths, and pile it in little piles in the trail itself for burning on windless days.
To the others he said: "We'll chop up the brush fine and pile it right in the trail to burn on windless days.
There, about the face of the clock, windless and steady, hung the hours.
August would soon be here with its languors and absence of stimulus, when it was really rather difficult in the drowsy windless weather to keep the flag of culture flying strongly from her own palace.
Even in the middle of summer the beeches were already tinged with gold; now and then a leaf dropped from its withered stem, and came spinning down through the windless air.
This cyclone of emotion, in the center of which dwelt the windless calm, had utterly tired her out, though she was unaware of fatigue, and her rest was dreamless.
Ben raised his voice, knowing that in this windless air it must reach into the open cabin, if Jenks was in any condition to hear it.
The divine calm within this chamber had a power which was akin to the power of nature in the twilight of a windless evening, or of a beautiful soul at ease in its own simplicity.
It ascended without wavering straight up in the windless evening.
The gale that had rocked the tall trees in fury but a few days before was almost forgotten in the windless weather that had succeeded it.
The morrow after the storm was windless and genial; the morning stepped out from the east bearing the promise of a fine day; the tide was running strongly to the sea.
And the windless weather is kindly, And comforts the host in these; And their hearts are uplift in them blindly, And blindly they boast at ease That the next day's fight shall exalt them, and smite with destruction the lords of the seas.
And a windless night comes down: And a breezeless morning, bright With promise of praise to crown The close of the crowning fight, Leaps up as the foe's heart leaps, and glows with lustrous rapture of light.
Once more we are in the wood, now a ghostly place with dark aisles and the windless hush of evening in the branches.
The vale was ringed with stony tree-clad hills like the Riviera, and in the hot windless noon the dust hung in clouds about us, so that, in spite of water and greenery, my impression of that valley is one of thirst and discomfort.
Across the travelling landscape evenly drooped and lifted The telegraph wires, thick ropes of snow in the windless air; They drooped and paused and lifted again to unseen summits, Drawing the eyes and soothing them, often, to a drowsy stare.
On the black promontory's windless head, The last awake, the fireflies rise and fall And tangle up their dithering skeins of light.
Though it was a windless day the ocean swell was high, and it was a grand sight to see the great green rollers sweep majestically up till they were close to the beach, and then curl over and break in showers of sparkling spray.
We also found that the landing was often the most perilous on clear, windless days, when no clouds crowned the mountains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "windless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: breathless; calm; close; oppressive; stifling; stuffy; suffocating; unventilated
