Petrified

Examples

• What are Petrified Forests? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Jo stops in the middle of a bite and looks petrified. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The second sentence literally petrified her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The conviction that I was discovered--and by that man, of all others--absolutely petrified me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He stopped as if he were petrified by the sight of Bella's husband, who in the same moment had changed colour. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was like a fine mask, suddenly startled, made angry, and petrified. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And still Tal Hajus stood as though petrified. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The touch was as stealthy and as sudden as that other touch which had petrified me from head to foot on the night when we first met. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The paper fell from Mr Dorrit's hand, and he sat petrified, with a fig half way to his mouth. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Winkle looked on, petrified at beholding such a scene between two such men. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I do not state this as a petrified fact--I only suppose they were eating gravel, because there did not appear to be any thing else for them to eat. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I have not been petrified. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But surely, said she, I may enter his county with impunity, and rob it of a few petrified spars without his perceiving me. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The maid stood petrified for a moment, and then, recovering her courage, she ran downstairs. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Petrified with astonishment, the lad slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what would come of this strange affair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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