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Motionless in sentence

278 examples of Motionless in a sentence

She was more motionless, more impenetrable, more peaceful than ever.
Her sweetheart contemplated her, and was almost affrighted to see her so motionless and mute.
Therese had remained on the bank, standing grave and motionless beside her sweetheart, who held the rope.
Therese, rigid and motionless, with her head thrown slightly backward, waited.
There they remained motionless and mute in the obscurity that prevailed within the vehicle.
For fully five minutes, he stood motionless, lost in unconscious contemplation, engraving, in spite of himself, in his memory, all the horrible lines, all the dirty colours of the picture he had before his eyes.
When Laurent could at last tear himself from the poignant curiosity that kept him motionless and gaping before his victim, he went out and begun walking rapidly along the quay.
He entered a wine-shop and remained an hour there, until midnight, motionless and silent at a table, mechanically absorbing great glasses of wine.
He stood motionless, breathless, without the courage to run away, rubbing lucifers against the damp wall in such anxiety that his hand trembled.
For a moment he stood motionless on his bare feet, listening.
Laurent then seated himself opposite Therese, on the other side of the chimney, and they remained thus, silent and motionless, for fully five minutes.
The presence of this filthy bedfellow kept them motionless, silent, abstracted with anguish.
The murderers, one seated on each side of her, silent and motionless, seemed to be attentively listening to what she said.
But, after hearing and understanding everything, she was forced to remain motionless and mute, inwardly preserving all the glare of her grief.
Nothing could be more heartrending than this mute and motionless despair.
Low words and hoarse laughter reached Laurent, who remained motionless in a doorway on the opposite side of the street.
Fright and embarrassment kept them motionless and mute for two or three minutes.
It happened at this moment that one of the horses of the four who were seeking admittance went to smell Rocinante, who melancholy, dejected, and with drooping ears stood motionless, supporting his sorely stretched master; and as he was, after all, flesh, though he looked as if he were made of wood, he could not help giving way and in return smelling the one who had come to offer him attentions.
The military bands struck up altogether; the horses stood upon two legs each, cantered backwards, and whisked their tails about in all directions; the dogs barked, the mob screamed, the troops recovered, and nothing was to be seen on either side, as far as the eye could reach, but a long perspective of red coats and white trousers, fixed and motionless.
A little hard-headed, Ripstone pippin-faced man, was conversing with a fat old gentleman in one corner; and two or three more old gentlemen, and two or three more old ladies, sat bolt upright and motionless on their chairs, staring very hard at Mr. Pickwick and his fellow-voyagers.
There was the fat boy, perfectly motionless, with his large circular eyes staring into the arbour, but without the slightest expression on his face that the most expert physiognomist could have referred to astonishment, curiosity, or any other known passion that agitates the human breast.
I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start up from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which, streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.
For from the first shades of dusk till the earliest light of morning, it still stands motionless in the same place, listening to the music of my iron chain, and watching my gambols on my straw bed.'
Mr. Pickwick was struck motionless and speechless.
'The chair remained motionless, and spoke not a word.
"My only son, Sir, and he is dying before his father's eyes!"'At the first word the old man uttered, the stranger checked himself in his career, and, folding his arms, stood perfectly motionless.
As Mr. Pickwick bowed, he took his spectacles from his waistcoat pocket, and put them on; a process which he had no sooner gone through, than, uttering an exclamation of surprise, Mr. Pickwick retreated several paces, and the lady, with a half-suppressed scream, hid her face in her hands, and dropped into a chair; whereupon Mr. Peter Magnus was stricken motionless on the spot, and gazed from one to the other, with a countenance expressive of the extremities of horror and surprise.
He would have walked in, and was in the very act of doing so, indeed, when catching sight of Mr. Weller, he involuntarily shrank back a pace or two, and stood gazing on the unexpected scene before him, perfectly motionless with amazement and terror.
He breathed heavily, but in all other respects was motionless.
In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set aquiline features.
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