As I stood, I noticed how quietly the candle burnt; never a flicker nor flare, so utterly windless was the place.

and he pointed where a column of thick smoke mounted slowly upon the windless air.

Strongly and well the good horse bore them, what time the sun waxed fierce and hot, filling the woods with a stifling heat, a close, windless air dank and heavy with the scent of leaves and bracken.

A flock's journey is seven miles, ten if pasture fails, in a windless blur of dust, feeding as it goes, and resting at noons.

In the windless tropical night the words came clearly to their ears:

To-day the first of the winter's snow fell gently, persistently, out of a leaden and windless sky.

He merely pushed the horse into a position from which he commanded all the environs of the house; then he sat still as a hawk hovering in a windless sky.

So, as he expected, we came after a day or two into an almost windless sea, where smooth mountainous waves, the relics of the storm, were weltering aimlessly up and down under a dark sad sky.

He commonly loseth himself in his tale, and flutters up and down windless without recovery, and whatsoever next presents itself, his heavy conceit seizeth upon, and goeth along with, however heterogeneal to his matter in hand.

One or two more fell at a distance of several hundred yards, and in the southern part of the city flames from several houses shot up into the quiet, windless night.

To find the just word for all our emotions, to realise that our most trivial thought is illimitably creative, to feel that it is our lot to keep life's gladdest promises, to see the great souls of men and women, steadfast in existence as stars in a windless poolthese, indeed, are no ordinary pleasures.

On yonder mead, that like a windless lake Shines in the glow of heaven, a cherub boy Is bounding, playful as a breeze new-born, Light as the beam that dances by his side.

She is like a windless sunset in the Winter before a hurricane comes and the snow swirls up before it over the world.

It wasn't by any means a windless day; there was a brisk, fluctuating breeze blowing out of the north over the downs.

The other day, brilliant, warm, windless, I was tramping across the fields a mile from home, when I heard him on the summit of a dead sycamore, cleaving the air with stroke after stroke of his long melodious whistle, as with the swing of a silken lash.

It is quite evident this is a comparatively windless area.

If this goes on we shall have a bad time, but I sincerely trust it is only the result of this windless area close to the coast and that, as we are making steadily outwards, we shall shortly escape it.

Suddenly Bensington saw something that made him shout a windless "Hi!"

They had the good fortune there to encounter dry and windless weather and a sufficiency of brushwood, with which Osmund constructed an agreeable fire.

Earth and sea and sky; the waveless depths and the windless heights, and the wide expanse between, now sunlit and again stormswept, are the field of her enterprise and hope.

Windless cabins.

Windless cabins.

The Mahommedans surrounded the clump but when they saw the one bamboo which the woman held shaking, while all the rest were stillfor it was a windless nightthey concluded that it was an evil spirit that they were pursuing and ran away in a panic.

Wild flapped each fiend a batlike hood Against that 'frighting light, and stood Beating the windless rain, and then Rose heavy and slow with cowering head, Circled in company again, And into darkness fled.

By his cart's side the wagoner Is slouching slowly at his ease, Half-hidden in the windless blur Of white dust puffing to his knees.