dead calm vs languishing

dead calm

adj
  • Completely still with no waves and no wind. 

noun
  • The condition of a perfectly flat sea with no waves and no wind. 

languishing

adj
  • lacking of vigor or spirit. 

noun
  • The act of one who languishes. 

How often have the words dead calm and languishing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )