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As for the memory of Rodolphe, she had thrust it back to the bottom of her heart, and it remained there more solemn and more motionless than a king's mummy in a catacomb.
He went up with them to her bedroom, and remained standing near the door, motionless and mute.
The crystal lustres hung motionless.
Leon, motionless, looked at her, no longer even attempting to speak a single word, to make a gesture, so discouraged was he at this two-fold obstinacy of gossip and indifference.
But as he urged her to try, she resolutely began eating, while Charles opposite her sat motionless in a dejected attitude.
Seen thus from above, the whole landscape looked immovable as a picture; the anchored ships were massed in one corner, the river curved round the foot of the green hills, and the isles, oblique in shape, lay on the water, like large, motionless, black fishes.
Then the passengers in the "Hirondelle" ended by falling asleep, some with open mouths, others with lowered chins, leaning against their neighbour's shoulder, or with their arm passed through the strap, oscillating regularly with the jolting of the carriage; and the reflection of the lantern swinging without, on the crupper of the wheeler; penetrating into the interior through the chocolate calico curtains, threw sanguineous shadows over all these motionless people.
Then they remained sitting face to face at the two chimney corners, motionless, in silence.
People were coming out after vespers; the crowd flowed out through the three doors like a stream through the three arches of a bridge, and in the middle one, more motionless than a rock, stood the beadle.
Lying on her back, motionless, and with staring eyes, she saw things but vaguely, although she tried to with idiotic persistence.
She lay motionless, afraid that the slightest movement might make her vomit.
Homais, motionless, uttered great sighs; and Monsieur Canivet, always retaining his self-command, nevertheless began to feel uneasy.
And Charles stood, motionless and staring, in the very same place where, long ago, Emma, in despair, and paler even than he, had thought of dying.
The servant at first stood motionless and then vanished.
How very odd!'For twenty minutes since M. de Renal had left the room, Julien had seen the woman he loved, her head sunk on the child's little bed, motionless and almost unconscious.
He obeyed, and for a minute or two sat motionless in his place, pale, determined, and thinking only of what was going to happen; he was really fine at that moment.
The latter remained motionless, standing in the middle of the room, where he had been left by the porter, who had gone out again shutting the door behind him.
The man who was writing raised his head; Julien did not observe this for a moment, and indeed, after he had noticed it, still remained motionless, as though turned to stone by the terrible gaze that was fixed on him.
They stood motionless, without breathing.
She stood motionless before Julien who had now replaced the sword, she gazed at him with eyes in which there was no more hatred.
Seated on the divan in the library, motionless and with her head turned away from Julien, she was a prey to the keenest suffering that pride and love can make a human heart feel.
SCHILLERJulien remained motionless, seeing nothing.
K. could have encouraged to enter, but he had decided to make a final break not only with the lawyer but with everything in his home, so he kept himself motionless.
One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be most horrible.
Tom lay upon his elbow motionless, for some time, watching the two intently.
This profile remained there for hours, motionless and peaceful, between a couple of caps for women, whereon the damp iron rods had imprinted bands of rust.
She got into the habit of talking in a low voice, of moving about noiselessly, of remaining mute and motionless on a chair with expressionless, open eyes.
Laurent, raising his head, saw Therese mute and motionless opposite, gazing at him with ardent fixedness.
She would see the cat, sitting motionless and dignified, looking at them.
Therese, motionless, peaceful like the others, observed this joy, this smiling depression of these people of the middle class, and in her heart there was savage laughter; all her being jeered, but her face maintained its frigid rigidity.
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