But I have never asked him how he does nothing, or how I can learn to do it in case I find myself alone again in a boat upon a windless sea.

All next day we steamed sou'west at a steady thirteen knots through blazing summer sun and a blue, windless sea.

The commanding officer explained that they did not currently require fuel, but that he would like to make a new rendezvous eighteen days hence, down in the doldrums, the hot windless seas around the equator.

"It's calmer waters now, windless seas - if not the doldrums," he says, unable to squash a note of petulance in his voice.

Like sailors, traders do not like windless seas, and many of them yearn for the good old days of tempests and tidal waves.

They rode at anchor in the windless sea just offshore from Cader Sedat.

Gigantic craters, in whose yawning depths no spark of warmth had been generated for countless cycles of time, were surrounded by vast plains eroded to the dead level of a windless sea.

Then the swans drew the white ships of the Teleri over the windless sea; and thus at last and latest they came to Aman and the shores of Eldamar.

The longboat rolled drearily on an empty, windless sea, and the stagnant, overcast sky gave no promise of any breeze.

The mention of Mandy's death made the anger rush out of her, leaving her adrift with her emotions like a sailboat on a windless sea.