The course now lay from point to point, in order to avoid being becalmed within the indentations of the coast.
The day passed without any change in the positions of the vessels, for they still lay becalmed.
They were often becalmed and took months to cross the ocean.
We mustn't show more lights than we can help, when becalmed at night so near the land.
There will be the false dawns to reflect upon and the many times of being becalmed.
However, academic sociology has remained somewhat becalmed, one might almost say oblivious to these new currents.
Unfortunately, when they are lost, the economy and the country are likely to be becalmed and in a fog of misapprehension and misunderstanding.
