What is "doldrum"

Usage examples of "doldrum".

Nathan, of shipping aboard as mate on a cargo ship bound for India or China, when abruptly and happily my doldrum state came to an abrupt end.

These, such as The Doldrums and Renigard, were manipulated by common consent as circumstances seemed to warrant.

That may help to hold The Doldrums at bay for a time -- though they come ever closer.

Far away on the other side of the continent, on the Forbidden Isle of Orinoco, Mors Ambulans, Despot of the Doldrums, played host to a group of his fellow despots.

The Doldrums, Turland and Renigard, and all our chances would this have been that much less.

He quickly acquired ships, too, and by the time the mightily augmented navy of the Doldrums hove off to the Renigard coast, he was fully ready for the next stage in the campaign.

Mors Ambulans of The Doldrums, the hated Warl Ord of Renigard, and Utan, the detestable Orang of Turlang, would be there -- for not even such as these might with impunity say Trun the Warlock nay.

I understand, been not infrequently robbed in the past whilst in conclave, and so long as those of Turland, Renigard and The Doldrums are at large you may expect the robberies to continue indefinitely.

It was like being in the Doldrums, that area of no wind near the Equator, where sailing ships are becalmed for days and weeks, waiting for the tiniest breeze to pipe up, fill their canvas and drive them onward.

Even if we left now, it would still take two days just to return to the point in the Doldrums where we were expected to meet.

Bloodriders had anchored on the southern fringes of the Doldrums to await the others.

Instead, she was enveloped in a case of the doldrums such as she had never before experienced.

But he finally pulled out of his doldrums just about when I come to help at the castle.

There I report to the flight commander, a Flying Officer, who has also been in the doldrums and welcomes me if for no other reason than because the squadron has branded me a black sheep.

Extra Long made for the lace-making market by the noted pinner Josiah Doldrum, I would say.