"But please, Kurt, never forget that God hears our prayers and comforts and calms us only when we open our hearts entirely to him.

a maximis ad minima [Lat.]; greatness knows itself [Henry IV]; mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed [B. Cornwall]; minimum decet libere cui multum licet

Enoughresistless reason calms my soul Approving justice smiles upon your cause, And nature's rights entreat th' asserting sword.

Is it very fair? Are there great calms and find ye silence there?

She rises and attends the injured and calms the terrified.

They said that if birds were killed on board ship, their death would be followed by long calms.

Mostly calms.

The distance traversed is about ninety miles, which was four times passed and repassed in six days, a feat that could only have been accomplished in the calms of summer.

Lovely as are the wide and sudden calms Upon a lake, when all the waters rise, To smooth each undulation, and present A plain of molten silveris the hope, Dear Edward, of thy safetywhich now comes To fill, expand, and elevate my heart String every nerve, and give to every vein, A warmer and a sweeter sense of life!

I have written, I think, of the terrific character of the tempests witnessed in England since my return: well, the calms were just as intense and novel.

During one of these sinister calms, in which every thing in creation seemed to pause, even the heart of man, seated on the shore, not having even strength to smoke, Selkirk was vainly awaiting the evening breeze; nothing came, but the obscurity of night.

The slow day's run with little wind and the long equatorial calms permitted him to penetrate a little into the mysteries of the oceanic immensity, severe and dark, that for ancient peoples had been "the night of the abyss," "the sea of utter darkness," "the blue dragon that daily swallows the sun.

It was the zone of calms, the ocean of dark, oily waters, in which boats remained for entire weeks with sails limp, without the slightest breath rippling the atmosphere.

The young pilot loved navigation in a sailing ship,the struggle with the wind, the solitude of its calms.

When he can go no farther, the infant Krishna stretches out a foot, calms the river and the water subsides.

He calms their fears and raising the hill Govardhana, supports it on his little finger.

Some of them were high enough to protect articles from the wash of the water, but it is at all times difficult to lie alongside of rocks that are exposed to the open sea; the heaving and setting of the element, even in calms, causing the elevation of its surface so much to vary.

102. 'What calms the breast, and makes the mind serene.' 388.

130 "Long have I loved what I behold, The night that calms, the day that cheers; The common growth of mother-earth Suffices meher tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.

We were detained only three or four days by the calms usual in that zone, but never quite still, or driven out of our course; and immediately on crossing 'the line' got a good breeze (the south-east trade-wind), which carried us round Trinidad; then exchanged it for a north-west wind, which, with the exception of one day's squall from the south-east, carried us straight into Table Bay.

This girl who came into our office that July Saturday, just in time to interfere with the outing Bob Brownley and I had laid out, and who was destined to divert my chum's heretofore smooth-flowing river of existence and turn it into an alternation of roaring rushes and deadly calms, was truly the most exquisite creature one could conceive of, I know my thought must have been Bob's too, for his eyes were riveted on her face.

The Colla is a gale in which the wind blows constantly from one quarter, but with varying force and with alternations of violent squalls, calms, and heavy rains, usually lasting at least three days; these gales occur during the southwest monsoon and their direction is from the southwest quarter.

The Nortada is distinguished from the Colla, in that the direction is constant and the force steady, without the alternations of passing squalls and calms.

You have seen her, at many times, Captain Ludlowin squalls and calms; with her wings abroad, and her pinions shut; by day and night; near and far; fair and foul;and I ask you, with a seaman's frankness, is she not a toy to fill a seaman's heart?"

Nothing else soothes and calms me; nothing else so silences the demon and wakens the better part of my nature.