Motionless

Examples

• Eustacia stood motionless awhile. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• With trembling hand she gave him the paper, and sat white and motionless looking at him while he read it. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• All this time, as if a spell were on him, he was motionless and powerless, except to watch her. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• So she sat almost motionless for hours in the drawing-room, going over the bitterness of every remembrance with an unwincing resolution. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Even the log of wood which lies heavy and motionless on our woodpile is made up of countless billions of molecules each in rapid incessant motion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• She dared not turn round to him--and there he stood motionless, unbroken. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She remained impassive on the same spot, silent and motionless, until the striking of the church clock roused her, and she turned away. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But she had resumed her old seat in front of the fire, and sat, perfectly motionless before it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Two peculiarly blunt knocks or pokes at the door, as if the dead man arriving on his back were striking at it with the soles of his motionless feet. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I said (glancing at Joe, who stood looking on, motionless), that I supposed I could come directly. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• She skirted the bank and went round to the wicket before the house, where she stood motionless, looking at the scene. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I stood motionless under my hierophant's touch. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I neither spoke or looked, but sat motionless, bewildered by the multitude of miseries that overcame me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Holmes was silent and motionless; but I could tell that he was keenly alert, and that his eyes were fixed intently upon the stream of passers-by. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Like a thing of bronze, motionless as death, sat Tarzan. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The door closed on Gerty, and he stood alone with the motionless sleeper on the bed. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In the midst of blaze and vapour, Mr. Rochester lay stretched motionless, in deep sleep. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He had misinterpreted the feelings which had kept her face averted, and her tongue motionless. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The lamp placed against the post by Clym still shone across the water, and the reddleman observed something floating motionless. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Archer remained motionless, gazing at the upper windows as if the end of their pilgrimage had been attained. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Still, Oliver lay motionless and insensible on the spot where Sikes had left him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The eyes opened, he remained motionless, looking at her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She hung motionless for some seconds, then she sat down again. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He seemed to be the only restless thing, except the clocks, in the whole motionless house. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The Pussum lay in her bed, motionless, her round, dark eyes like black, unhappy pools. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There the form stood, motionless as the hill beneath. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• When she left he continued to sit motionless, his elbows on his knees, his chin on his clasped hands, his eyes fixed on the red grate. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Lily stood motionless, keeping between herself and the char-woman the greatest distance compatible with the need of speaking in low tones. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She sat motionless, hiding from people. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Editor: Olaf