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They both stood motionless a moment, and then she reached out, took his ear and led him unprotestingly to the corner.
The young man stood motionless for a few minutes, freezing in the chill wind and rain, as if not wanting to believe what had happened was true.
For the next three hours, the structure was edged into place inch by inch, so slowly that at times it seemed to be motionless in midair.
The nectarivorous hummingbirds evolved a derived mode of hovering flight that allows them to remain virtually motionless in front of flowers.
I could see Rachel had severe breaks to both her legs and my wife was lying motionless.
Blackbar soldierfish protect the entrance to the engine room and several species of snapper lie motionless in protected areas.
Calm and motionless, wholly focused on the surveillance of those below, the two men watched from their solitary position of concealment.
Nothing's tougher for an animator to mimic than hair, and the Affleck has a motionless coif fit for a video game character.
Far away, against the horizon, a large bulk carrier looked almost motionless as she made her way against the strong coastal current.
His face motionless, Altobelli reached up and uncorked his left eyeball from its socket, placing it on the table.
With the car standing motionless now but with the engine still idling, she can smell foul fumes and heat.
She buried her face beneath the covers and just lied there, motionless, but thinking.
The result is that each limb is motionless, while the spokes of the wheels of the vehicle whirl about so rapidly that they cannot be seen.
On stage, as the band around him rocks the crowd, he stands there motionless, expressionless.
They needed to imagine a special motionless container in order to understand such physical concepts as velocity and acceleration.
I sat motionless, gripping my fork so hard that it rattled against my plate.
No life stirred except where, against the sky, buzzards planed and glided on motionless wings.
We were rewarded with a stargazer, motionless on the bottom, waiting for its prey.
Above it all, dark shapes hang suspended, almost motionless, swaying with the breeze.
Looking back, he saw ten men-six on horseback-surrounding the motionless carcass that was the old man.
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He still looked as though he'd been lashed by a whip, and he was sitting motionless behind the front desk.
Close to the mangroves a big hawksbill turtle surfaced then lay motionless in the sunshine, no doubt sunbathing.
I was standing stock-still, up to my waist in motionless water, in a deep cavern, totally blind.
Of course, the long cascade of heavy hair that hung around her, blue and motionless as the walls, might have something to do with that, too.
He is revealed standing motionless just outside the door, on the side by the doorjamb, a clean towel on his folded arm.
She struggled for breath as she fainted and fell to the ground, motionless.
The office was empty, swivel chairs motionless behind open reception windows.
The rice fields on either side of the road lay motionless in the dim light.
A solitary chicken hawk circled so slowly on a high updraft of air that he looked to be hanging motionless, a small brown kite.
I stood motionless next to the roll of bread, refraining from moving too soon, for fear of being discovered.
But instead he sat motionless, taking long drags of a cigarette and staring at a mural of a bunch of teenagers at a party.
Majestic great egrets, stark white against a backdrop of greens, browns, and blues, stood like motionless ballet dancers along the water's edge.
The pool is motionless and so clear it gives a magnified look to what is underneath the crystal sheet of water.
A wave of revulsion washed through my body and mind as I sat, motionless, mere inches from him.
The protracted climax, to a faint wash of sound, is a tableau in which the motionless dancers slowly levitate.
When threatened, the aoudad stands motionless and is concealed by its tawny brown coat, which blends with the surrounding rocks.
She clenched her teeth and stayed motionless, waiting for his reply, although her entire body was rigid with pent fury.
They were both almost completely motionless, save the rise and fall of their chests as they breathed.
Covered with greasepaint and standing motionless for an hour, two young people act as statuesque models to earn money.
But he's more impressive as an archetypal, monumental, and motionless symbol than as a character in an ongoing series.
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Being engrossed and motionless, she indicated that she saw these souls ascending to heaven.
He gasped for one last breath of air, his eyes widening and his body shaking, then dropped still, motionless.
The blond-haired, almost godlike figure, meanwhile, stood motionless, impassive and unwinded, like a great tiger poised to pounce.
The tableau froze, motionless, and the flame of the memorial flickered out, and the stage became dark.
Aside from the stinging clouds of mosquitoes, the jungle is nearly motionless.
The sky was a bright, cloudless azure, and the sun was pinned high and motionless and brilliant upon its zenith.
She was as motionless as her famous photo glossies, as still as the models at the Wax Museum just down the street.
Standing motionless for hours on end may seem like a daunting task to most people, but they consider it fun.
There, cows and geese sway and horses pull carts past old men who sit motionless in the shade of a few broad trees.
Fishes like this gadid often lie motionless, either waiting in ambush for potential prey or simply conserving energy by resting on the bottom.
Confused by the chlorodyne which I had taken, I lay motionless in a semi-conscious state.
Beside me she sits mute and motionless as chiseled stone, the beautiful fearsome stranger who has saved and destroyed me in the space of hours.
Large schools of butterfly perch hovered, while sea perch glared at us as they sat motionless on the rocks.
For as far as she could see in either direction the traffic on the motorway was motionless.
When the prisoner is brought down from the truck, he is basically motionless.
Therefore, he had plenty of time for such wholesome activities as sitting motionless on the edge of a see-saw.
Meh, the snake show was way more exciting than the reptile exhibition, a display of motionless, sleeping snakes.
A single fly was placed on the platform, and placidly stayed there, motionless, until the test stimulus was presented.
At its four corners, four Welsh guards in bearskins and red tunics stood motionless.
Remaining motionless seems to enable elephants to focus their keen senses of smell and hearing on unfamiliar noises and odors in the air.
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She turned her head and glared at his motionless face, partially illuminated by pale moonlight that crept through a crack in the curtains.
Start with your body motionless, your legs hanging down and your abs slightly flexed.
Traffic was still motionless, so they had no problem weaving between the vehicles and making their way toward the toll plaza.
When his vision had cleared, he saw his father standing motionless in the doorway, staring at the flaming wreck of the car.
Stealthily I moved in, until I was so close I could have actually touched the little body that lay motionless in the grass in front of me.
Fortunately, once on the island, we found two more shoebills that stayed motionless among the papyrus, giving us long and lasting memories.
Camera in hand, motionless, I waited for the right moment, my window of opportunity.
Throughout his examination, Tadese sat motionless, submitting so pliantly as to give the impression of not being there at all.
Hundreds of people were standing, motionless and quiet, watching the screens with open mouths.
Everybody simply stood motionless and horrified as the guy pulled back his arm and threw a punch at the old man's head.
The victim's partner lay unconscious and motionless on the pavement for seven minutes after the attack.
When I got to him he wasn't breathing, and was lying motionless on the road.
I am motionless among all this life, just hovering, watching, occasionally finning forward to get a closer look.
He was surrounded by noisy and boisterous children as he sat motionless on his throne.
On the way out I noticed penguins gathered by the visitors' centre fence, undeterred by humans, watching, motionless.
This open-winged posture is held while the bill is closed, the tail is fanned, the plumage is sleeked, and the body is motionless.
Upon one of the boughs, high off the ground, almost indiscernible from the night around it, a hunched form sat motionless, as if waiting.
I went downstairs immediately to see if the window was damaged, and saw a drake mallard lying motionless on its belly in the sand, two metres outside the facade.
I witnessed that tragedy a few blocks from where it occurred, standing motionless at 8th Street and 6th avenue in lower Manhattan.
Gabrielle lay motionless on the ground, curled up in a ball, vainly trying to stop the ponding, flashes and sharp jabs of pain coming from all over her body, it seemed.
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She turned to simply stand motionless, her wrist cannons locked on her target and Jack came around the corner to aim his weapon as well, then stopped suddenly.
In calm contrast to the hurry of sailing vessel and steamer a silent fleet of white warships lay motionless in midstream.
He remained motionless in the next shot but the fear of what was to follow was etched on his face.
He fell 40 feet and fractured his skull, hip, and nose, and lay there motionless.
The old man remained nearly motionless, but he still drew breath.
Many of those left behind lay sprawled motionless on blankets or slumped limply in their folding chairs.
I stand motionless and distant as the priest says his speech.
Surrounded by family and friends, he sat shirtless and motionless leaning forward in a chair on the dirt in front of his hut.
He cursed his luck and shut his eyes tight, trying to remain motionless.
Their part-time profession requires them to strike the pose of figures such as trees, gardeners, tennis players and toastmasters, then maintain it absolutely motionless.
Slowly the dust settled over the motionless heap at the foot of the cliff.
Stout, overdressed women with heavy jewels sit statue-like and motionless as their hair is dyed, fanned, backcombed and sprayed.
But put a frog in the middle of a field of motionless, recently killed flies and it will starve.
She found herself staring motionless at her reflection in the tall cheval glass, and quickly finished unbraiding her hair, thinking fixedly of things other than that sorrow.
Whilst I was thus examining this new development, Joey sat motionless, as so often, totally mute, showing no emotion about the mutilation of his body as now revealed to me.
Characteristically it enjoys hanging upside down and motionless from a rough network of silken threads spun untidily in the corners of warm moist rooms, such as boiler rooms.
Throughout this long afternoon, we remained motionless in the briar patch.
In the clear blue sky above, four open-billed storks had a got a thermal and were spiralling up, Icaris-like, on motionless wings, to an unknown destination.
Phlegm is motionless, viscid, sticky, heavy, inert, cold, soft, and white.
I turn my back for a moment, and when I return, Terry is lying on the floor of the van in the foetal position, motionless and silent, dead to the world.
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There in the branches, also motionless, also fixed in attention, is a gray-brown squirrel with a tail so long and so absolutely pure pure white it's wonderful.
I stood motionless for a few seconds, just looking at the closed door.
A hawkfish was lying motionless in a spot with a good overview.
Ben, framed against the bare white wall behind him, stares straight ahead and is otherwise motionless as he is carried, cattle-like, along by the conveyor belt.
I remember climbing over shipwrecks, bending close to inspect a motionless herring gull, then the long hike away from him, headed north, up the endless beach.
I stood motionless and my tears started flow, because I felt no fear at all, just an overwhelming feeling of disbelief, and then admiration and love.
With a deft flick of the reins, the policeman wheeled his mount and together they stood their ground, motionless, man and horse looking down at that ill mannered citified pup.
Suddenly his hand appeared on my chin, namely the rounded edges of his thumb ran back and forth against the cleft of my chin, then rested motionless right in the center.
However, at the time that Wegener proposed his theory of continental drift, most scientists still believed the Earth was a solid, motionless body.
How do geophysicists determine whether the mantle convects heat from the molten-iron core to the surface crust, rather than conducting heat through motionless rock?
He is the dissolution called death, the peace of motionless air.
Pizarro rushed at Atahualpa on horseback, but the Inca remained motionless.
Sometimes it's soft and quiet, the sun turning an early morning mist into an orange fog and silhouetting motionless stands of slash pines.
All this time his beagle lay motionless on the floor in the entry hall.
The poor wretch, who lay motionless a long time, just began to recover his senses as a stage-coach came by.
So she sat almost motionless for hours in the drawing-room, going over the bitterness of every remembrance with an unwincing resolution.
A window was open, and the crickets were stridulating at an ominous speed in the black motionless foliage.
Rabbits were out on silflay, and fat spiders hung motionless in the centre of damp webs.
Not far away in the woods the Auton had been standing motionless under a tree. It was shaped like a man but it was not human.
Their straining eyes abacinated by the cup of terror, their throats stopped, their powers dead within them, they hung breathless, motionless.
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The oxygen uptake through the skin suffices to sustain the needs of the cold and motionless frogs during hibernation.
It may stand motionless in the shallows, or on a rock or sandbank beside the water, waiting for prey to come within striking distance.
Between blinks Tommy saw Temple in the path, her body slender and motionless for a moment as though waiting for some laggard part to catch up.
He had his foot on the brake during the kill zone, keeping the limousine almost motionless, while the brake lights were one.
We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibres of plants.
The birds sung less inspiritingly than usual amid the boughs, which remained as motionless as death.
The doll is held during difficult procedures such as spinal taps or bone marrow aspirations that require the patient to be motionless.
There was a stone basin of clear but motionless water, and the heavy reddish-and-yellow arches went round the courtyard with warrior-like fatality, their bases in dark shadow.
The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.
He further elaborates that external war is just like an exercise which keeps the body healthy and motional but civil war is like a fever turning the body ill and motionless.
These halibut lie motionless and invisible on the sea bed, capturing any fish that pass within reach, although they may also hunt for fish in open water.
They were not motionless, but swayed to and fro above her head, thronging out of one sky-light into another, as if the universe and not the air-ship was careening.
He was motionless for a moment, breathing deeply, and then he separated himself from them, leaning his body away, with a distaste that he could feel growing cancerously.
She escaped her mortal coil and moved out, looking back at herself as she stood motionless, clutching the stone that had become the link between her body and her spirit.
I let out another buck roar and sat motionless with Grizzler on my lap.
Brave Inca had been shaken off but Paul was sitting motionless on Harchibald, just waiting to complete one of the cockiest, cheekiest wins in Champion Hurdle history.
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Sometimes he lived, day and night, motionless in his invalid's chair, with his legs propped before him on a footrest.
For ten minutes brakeman Joe lies insensible and motionless, just as he fell.
There, in the shelter of a milling machine, he paused and crouched motionless as a cat.
The motionless groves on the bank cast an unquivering shadow on the waters.
Janet was sitting motionless and embarrassed before the tea-table, waiting for the tea to become of brandied strength.
Nini tottered so uncertainly that gori, who had remained motionless and silent throughout, had to steady her with muscular arms.
Far in the north a curtain of mist hung on the sea, dense, motionless as the fog on the Grand Banks.
It usually remains motionless, lying on its side, or else displays its drowsy activity merely by feeble, wormlike movements.
Their great dread was the ground shark, which lay motionless at the bottom of the sea, and gave no indication of his presence.
Then he stood erect and motionless as he heard the voice of Anita Haldgren.
In the centre of the room lay the boy Shubert, perfectly motionless and no doubt dead.
His eyes were closed, his lips were blue and ashy, and his frame was motionless.
La Couteau had remained waiting, mute and motionless, at the foot of the bedstead.
A weaving target has a chance, but a target standing motionless is a sitting duck and his life hangs by a hair.
Solemn, almost motionless, squatted on their hunkers, they looked like two great vultures watching an animal die.
From this they saw him reach the big wall against which the vinery was built, and there he sat for a few moments motionless.
He had lain there in the sand for some time, as motionless as a mollusk at low water.
Then he noticed Alicia, sitting motionless in her seat, just as he had left her, with the expressionless face of a caryatid.
At other times he sat hour by hour in a state as motionless as that of catalepsy.
The boat from the island was at anchor there, floating motionless on the still water.
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The sullen, tranced hours verged towards evening, and Wat still lay motionless.
A breeze fluttered sash ends and tugged at cloaks, otherwise the assembly was motionless and awesomely quiet.
The aero-sub was motionless and submerged just off the port bow of the dreadnought.
She, motionless in the stupor of her anxiety, had not taken her eyes from his face.
Some threw themselves on the ground, stiff and motionless and insensible as dead men.
She waited motionless, till his passion should subside, still holding his hands.
The blue ensign of Great Britain hung motionless from the mizzen of the yacht Petrel.
The hammer on each bar of the long metal xylophone of the electric eye signal hung motionless.
A saint in ecstasy is as motionless and irresponsive and one-idea'd as a melancholiac.
And now here we are aboard this big baby that feels as motionless as the empire state building.
Jon stood motionless, his head reeling at the enormity of what he had done.
In another cage, shaped like a chalet, two lovebirds sat motionless side by side on their perch.
It remains in the memory motionless, unfaded, with its life arrested, in an unchanging light.
For some minutes he knelt motionless, as if in prayer, though no sound escaped him.
Elsa ran to the door and stood motionless by the jamb, waiting, ethereally white in the moonshine.
In a few moments both subjects are motionless, ansthetized by the etheric vapour.
They are not motionless, but in constant vibration and re-formation, like smoke drifts.
But lavigne had disappeared and poor Moralle lay motionless on the opposite bank, apparently dead.
A soft whinny out of the darkness, and tabari galloped into the firelight, and stopped at the side of her master motionless.
The cisalpine Gauls, lately so restless, and whom we shall soon see taking arms again, remained motionless.
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The world resembled a limitless flat shadow which was motionless and elusive.
The silence was profound, and the lamps burned with motionless, pallid flames.
He towelled himself with energy in the dark, and then remained motionless with the towel on his knees.
The subsiding wave showed them on the ground, some lying motionless, others squirming and writhing.
Joan raised up a little to see kells motionless and absorbed by the fire.
He seemed to be the only restless thing, except the clocks, in the whole motionless house.
It was as though the contact closed an electric circuit that instantaneously vitalized the quiet clod that had lain motionless so long.
There was the boat, the lascar resting motionless on his oar.
He had collapsed on the cushions of the taxi, and remained motionless.
Her hands lay on her lap motionless, one in the other loosely clasped.
However, seeing it motionless, by degrees they took courage, and sought to familiarise themselves with it.
The child stared, motionless, and it dampened her ardor for the moment.
I stood motionless, a roll of antiseptic cotton in my hand unwinding and spilling itself down to the floor.
Standing where there was no water, the baguette remained motionless.
Finally his limbs straightened, and became perfectly rigid and motionless.
For a moment Mathilde remained motionless, blinking her eyes.
This afternoon it brooded motionless, an image of forest reflection.
I strode up to the Bulgarian, who remained as motionless as a statue.
A great over-heated stillness enveloped the ship and seemed to hold her motionless in a flaming ambience composed in two shades of blue.
The leaves of a catalpa, across the roadway, hung motionless.
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The north star showed the only motionless spot in the celestial sphere.
Kirsty sat speechless, motionless, changeless as a soldier on guard.
On the floor there lay a rag doll, but she was not playing with it as, motionless, she stood there with her finger to her lips.
He knelt there motionless, a cocked pistol clenched in his right hand.
There was no mistaking that awful, motionless, crumpled posture.
For an instant the reptile contorted itself violently, and then lay motionless in the sunshine.
A lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance.
Sandusky had stood motionless from the instant he entered the room.
For several minutes Jurgis sat perfectly motionless, watching him, and reveling in the strange sensation of the champagne.
Yes, there was the graceful figure, in its mourning garments, standing out tall and black and motionless against the leafy background.
Renmark stood motionless as a statue, an object lesson in self-control.
She stayed motionless, with gaze riveted upon her child, and her face the picture of fright.
Now there is a roar of fire and the flames are bearing down upon her motionless figure.
But du Dsi Tschun remained motionless and paid no attention to it.
Diana howled lugubriously on seeing the remains of Satellite, which seemed as motionless as if they reposed on solid earth.
She merely looked up at Coryston, motionless, faintly smiling.
We pushed on past sentinels, motionless, silent, fatefully awake.
Jukes, motionless on the forepart of the bridge, began to speak at once.
The terrible motionless time had no gnomon on its dial-plate.
Flat on the ground, hidden in the goldenrod, he lay motionless.
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Moncharmin and Richard were the shipwrecked mariners amid this motionless turmoil of a calico sea.
He turned over, burying his face in his arm and there he lay, still and motionless.
Above his motionless figure the little cord and tassel on the stiff point of the hood swung about inanely in the gale.
She was silent and motionless for another five minutes, thinking intently.
Jo lay motionless, and her sister fancied that she was asleep, till a stifled sob made her exclaim, as she touched a wet cheek.
The pond lay still and motionless, glittering in the moonshine, and the hunter's wife was not a bit better off than she had been before.
But the Colonel remained motionless and statuesque, with folded arms.
Antony remains motionless, stiffer than a stake, pale as a corpse.
The Indian rose slowly from his seat, and stood for near a minute silent and motionless.
Here she paused, but Phillida sat motionless and stoically attentive.
The owners thought two Chinchillas were dead when they discovered them motionless in their cages.
She looked at me, leaning back in her chair, and remained motionless and mute.
But the glassy stare of the motionless figure had unnerved her.
Jansenius entered just then, and Agatha became motionless and gazed abstractedly at a vase of flowers.
She sat a long time silent, motionless, her eyes fixed ahead.
In one of his evolutions, the bull, tired by the muleta, stood motionless.
Was ever actual thorn more motionless or non-committal than most of these?
Spoked bicycle wheels stand motionless near a wire chair and paneless window frames.
Throughout almost the entire orgiastic frenzy of the Golden Calf scene, as the music thrashed and swooned, the cast sat motionless.
Olmec sat motionless, a gray pallor growing under his swarthy skin.
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Our hands met gropingly, lingered united in a steady, motionless clasp for a second.
She was motionless as a Parian statue, she hardly seemed to breathe.
For a long minute she lay there, perfectly motionless, until a cold fear seized her husband, thinking that she was dying.
For an instant he stood silent and motionless as one of the mangy effigies at home, but only for an instant.
The regiment fluttered like a bird preening its plumage and became motionless.
But all those death's heads were motionless and their dumb horror was not alive.
Thus my mind, all rapt, was gazing, fixed, motionless and intent, ever enkindled by its gazing.
His face was as copper-colored as an apache's and as motionless.
Abdomen much distended, rigid, motionless, tympanitic throughout.
Abdomen generally distended and tympanitic, wall rigid and motionless.
The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.
The corpse stood motionless, but addressed the widow in accents that seemed to melt into the clang of the bell, which fell heavily on the air while he spoke.
His yellow face was lifted in the light, with a show of white teeth, all grinning, and his shrunken, papery eyelids lay motionless over his blind eyes.
When she faced him again, he was motionless and dejected, with a wistful expression like that of a dog that has proffered a caress and received a kick.
Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
The muffled female, who had hitherto sat motionless in the front rank of the audience, now arose, and with slow, stately, and unwavering step, ascended the pulpit stairs.
They stopped for a moment, and Peter Ivanovitch was seen to gesticulate, while the young man listened motionless, with his arms hanging down and his head bowed a little.
The wide bosom of the Tappan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shallow of the distant mountain.
Moreover, I was concealed and motionless, and under no urgency of action.
Just for a second was the lion motionless with surprise and in that second Jack Clayton put to the crucial test an accomplishment which he had practiced at school.
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Having stumbled back to the sledge Vasili Andreevich caught hold of it and for a long time stood motionless, trying to calm himself and recover his breath.
The rim of black spread slowly into the sun's disk, my heart beat higher and higher, and still the assemblage and the priest stared into the sky, motionless.
The tiny bubbling ripple of the spring and the gray flash of tree-squirrel were as yardsticks with which to measure the silence and motionless repose.
He sat motionless on the windowsill, his head cocked to the side, with one unwavering eye regarding on the floor, so perilously near, the eternal enemy of all his kind.
The piece of glass broken out at the corner of the window just nipped off the bare heel of the boy standing motionless and looking with rapt eyes into the face of the Christ.
For a moment he stood motionless just within the entranceway, listening.
During this discursive address Silas had continued motionless in his previous attitude, leaning his elbows on his knees, and pressing his hands against his head.
