windlessness

Likewise, also, in the case of objects widely divergent, the examination of likeness is useful for purposes of definition, e.g. the sameness of a calm at sea, and windlessness in the air (each being a form of rest), and of a point on a line and the unit in number-each being a starting point.

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Heat lightning sometimes nickered yonder, and thunder muttered into windlessness.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

RAIN FELL slowly through windlessness, almost a mist.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

The factors in this expression are unseasonableness, not for dried leaves, but for prodigious numbers of dried leaves; direct fall, windlessness, month of April, and localization in France.

The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

When the agony of windlessness was gone and I could question him he assured me that the horses were well enough, but that he and his two companions were hungry.

The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

When the agony of windlessness was gone and I could question him he assured me that the horses were well enough, but that he and his two companions were hungry.

The Eye of Zeitoon Talbot Mundy 1909

“windlessness” and “calm-on-the sea” as examples suggests that they were not the by-products of some other sort of investigation, e.g. cosmology, but were chosen precisely to illustrate principles of definition.

Archytas Huffman, Carl 2007

It is possible then that I miss the point of most things—the mild windlessness of the day, the swallows’ flight, how these words appear on the screen as I enter them, the greenness of the stone.

The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

It is possible then that I miss the point of most things—the mild windlessness of the day, the swallows’ flight, how these words appear on the screen as I enter them, the greenness of the stone.

The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

C: D’ (e.g. as knowledge stands to the object of knowledge, so is sensation related to the object of sensation), and ‘As A is in B, so is C in D’ (e.g. as sight is in the eye, so is reason in the soul, and as is a calm in the sea, so is windlessness in the air).

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