lay smooth

The sea lay smooth, black, and motionless on her left, like some huge sleeping monster.

The night was calm and beautiful—the sea, unruffled by a breeze, lay smooth as a mirror between the lonely island and the main.

The wind had died down and the lake lay smooth and glassy in the morning sunlight.

Their skirts bunched where skirts should bunch that year or lay smooth where smoothness was decreed.

It lay smooth and silent, while a satellite sky seemed caved out in its azure depths.