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Petrified in sentence

55 examples of Petrified in a sentence

As I mused in this way, trying to establish in my memory every detail of this impressive landscape, Captain Nemo was leaning his elbows on a moss-covered monument, motionless as if petrified in some mute trance.
The terrain consisted mostly of thick slime mixed with petrified branches, but it changed little by little near four o'clock in the afternoon; it grew rockier and seemed to be strewn with pudding stones and a basaltic gravel called "tuff," together with bits of lava and sulfurous obsidian.
It is all cast; it—"Leon was fleeing, for it seemed to him that his love, that for nearly two hours now had become petrified in the church like the stones, would vanish like a vapour through that sort of truncated funnel, of oblong cage, of open chimney that rises so grotesquely from the cathedral like the extravagant attempt of some fantastic brazier.
Madame de Renal, petrified, did not know how to answer.
The old lady stood petrified with astonishment, peering over her glasses; Tom lay on the floor expiring with laughter.
The cheeks and mouth maintained such appalling immobility that they seemed as though petrified.
Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Winkle looked on, petrified at beholding such a scene between two such men.
Bonacieux, darting to the window, "can it be he?"Milady remained still in bed, petrified by surprise; so many unexpected things happened to her all at once that for the first time she was at a loss.
We stood petrified and speechless with amazement.
Having spread the quilt and folded my night-dress, I went to the window-seat to put in order some picture-books and doll's house furniture scattered there; an abrupt command from Georgiana to let her playthings alone (for the tiny chairs and mirrors, the fairy plates and cups, were her property) stopped my proceedings; and then, for lack of other occupation, I fell to breathing on the frost-flowers with which the window was fretted, and thus clearing a space in the glass through which I might look out on the grounds, where all was still and petrified under the influence of a hard frost.
Wild was the wrestle which should be paramount; but another feeling rose and triumphed: something hard and cynical: self-willed and resolute: it settled his passion and petrified his countenance: he went on--"During the moment I was silent, Miss Eyre, I was arranging a point with my destiny.
I have not been petrified.
Gringoire enjoyed seeing, feeling, fingering, so to speak an entire assembly (of knaves, it is true, but what matters that ?) stupefied, petrified, and as though asphyxiated in the presence of the incommensurable tirades which welled up every instant from all parts of his bridal song.
Thus benumbed, frozen, petrified, she had barely noticed on two or three occasions, the sound of a trap door opening somewhere above her, without even permitting the passage of a little light, and through which a hand had tossed her a bit of black bread.
The priest remained for several moments as though petrified, with his eyes fixed upon his hand.
Thus master of the citadel, he uttered a shout of joy, and suddenly halted, petrified.
"Oh!" she stammered, almost petrified, "I knew well that it was he again!"
The deaf man, who had been petrified by this sudden apparition, beheld him disappear through the door of the staircase to the north tower.
She had imagined some kind of ghastly face, with malignity petrified in its features; now she saw a great head, fixed on a thick neck, terrible, it is true, but almost ridiculous, for from a distance it resembled the head of a child.
Vinicius sat for the twinkle of an eye as if petrified; then he sprang up and ran toward the entrance crying,--"Lygia!
He had not the power even then to endure in his silent and as it were petrified sorrow, for at moments he made a gesture as if to cast the dust of the earth on his head, and at moments he groaned deeply; but seeing Petronius, he sprang up and cried in a tragic voice, so that all present could hear him,--"Eheu!
In the hall conversation had stopped, and people were as still as if petrified.
At last he dropped the lute to his feet with a clatter, and, wrapping himself in the "syrma," stood as if petrified, like one of those statues of Niobe which ornamented the courtyard of the Palatine.
When the Christians had finished their hymn, they remained kneeling, motionless, as if petrified, merely repeating in one groaning chorus, "Pro Christo!
He was petrified.
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