Dawn brought an abrupt calm, and the sun found the Vargaz wallowing in a confused sea.

He clambered up the old instrument's mount until he was looking down over a confused sea of people.

The motion of the boat in the big confused sea the northwester had built up, blowing a gale across the heavy current, was all gone now.

A sorrowful, angry, urgent, confused sea.

It was pointblank range; even in this confused sea there was no question of missing with one of the long sharklike missiles.

I shoved the lever forward cautiously to get us moving again, working to windward slowly through the confused seas off the point.

Islands to the SSW were breaking up the swell, but the wind was funnelling between them to create a very steep and confused sea.

"For the first couple of hours we had a confused sea and we weren't really going that fast," Dalton said last week via satellite phone.

A hum was rising from the Circle again, a confused sea of voices that overlapped and blended with one another, shouting, singing, calling out.

"It was a hard race for us," he said, adding that unusually choppy and confused seas prevented Stars & Stripes from sailing to its potential.