dead water

Air was trying to get out of that dead water.

There was a smell of oil and dead water in the air.

Just now we are in dead water; but this can't last long.

When in dead water she was unable to make 1.5 knots.

In the dead water, just inside its mouth, lay a tangled mass of tree trunks.

Upon the dead waters, the last leaf finally sinks.

Once in the broad channel of dead water we steered due east, and made rapid way until the evening.

"My people," he called across the dead water.

The Boat surfaced in the scummy dead water under a jetty.

There was an area of dead water where the sea parted round the island before dropping into nothingness.

There was an eddy here or nearly dead water, and Tom never lifted his paddle high enough to drip.

With the tiller hard over to drive in toward the dead water near shore, the rafters began their journey home.

It was perfectly dead water and about eighty yards wide, including the beds of papyrus on either side.

The dead water can be very pleasant-it encourages you to appreciate the nuances, and the leisure.

The Thames has been greatly cleaned up, and life has returned to its dead waters.

I crept up the dead water under the bank, and hadn't no accidents and didn't see nobody.

When caught in dead water, "Fram" appeared to be held back, as if by some mysterious force, and she did not always answer the helm.

The crew's anxiety increased as we approached the eastern headland and sailed through more stretches of shallow, dead water.

The fishing and lobster industries have encouraged efforts to identify the cause of the dead water and rectify the problem.

His iron claw made a circle of dead water round him, from which they fled like affrighted fishes.

Dead water, lifeless and silent.

Dead Water (1964 - 1 April 1994)

It's dead water.

It had seemed to be nearly dead water up above the bridges, but the further he got the faster the stream was pouring out between the mud-banks.

Aigues-Mortes (French for "dead waters") is a city in the south of France.