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.
What if we should be becalmed?
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There will be the false dawns to reflect upon and the many times of beingbecalmed.
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However, academic sociology has remained somewhatbecalmed, one might almost say oblivious to these new currents.
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Unfortunately, when they are lost, the economy and the country are likely to bebecalmedand in a fog of misapprehension and misunderstanding.
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Now his career is stuck; he is unhappy, marooned, shell-shocked andbecalmed.
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Like the nineteenth century sailing ship, the deep-sea fleets seem to bebecalmed; they are certainly in the doldrums.
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Unfortunately, what appears to have happened just now is that the wind has been taken out of the sails of the whole reform which has becomebecalmed.
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It is not uncommon to see thistles efficiently making their way, while other dinghys of similar design arebecalmed.
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The use of oars or sweeps allowed the xebec to approach vessels who werebecalmed.
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Kingsford says it was either contrary wind or they werebecalmed.
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He did not intend to enter but wasbecalmed.
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When a ship wasbecalmed, mastless, run aground or otherwise unable to move, a ship's boat provided a source of motive power.
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The ship was also equipped with a set of 28ft m sweeps to allow her to be rowed forward ifbecalmedor demasted.
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Soon after sailing she wasbecalmedand carried southwards by a freak seventy-mile-a-day current.
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Pollutants and humidity were confined to ground level, and the air wasbecalmedand devoid of wind.
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Sailing ships are sometimesbecalmedhere for many days waiting for a proper wind.
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