He knew the signs: small chance was there now of a Stormless night.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
Suffer a Stormless shipwreck in the pools.
"Views and Reviews"
Henry James
I lifted my eyes in the relief of the thought, and saw how the sun of the autumn hung above the waters oppressed with a mist of his own glory; far away to the left a man who had been clambering on a low rock, inaccessible save in such a tide, gathering mussels, threw himself into the sea and swam ashore; above his head the storm-tower stood in the Stormless air; the sea glittered and shone, and the long-winged birds knew not which to choose, the balmy air or the cool deep, now flitting like arrow-heads through the one, now alighting eagerly upon the other, to forsake it anew for the thinner element.
"The Seaboard Parish, Complete"
George MacDonald