"Motionless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... methodically along, paying little attention to their surroundings. Game dozed everywhere beneath the scanty shade, sometimes singly, sometimes in twos or threes, sometimes in herds. Motionless they stood; and often, were it not for the switch of a tail, they would have remained unobserved. Even the sentinel hartebeestes, posted atop high ant hills on the outskirts of the herds, seemed half asleep. Nevertheless they were awake enough for the job, as was ...
— The Leopard Woman • Stewart Edward White et al
... been sitting in the arm-chair against the fireplace in her usual attitude, resting her head on her hand and with her feet crossed one over the other on the fender. She had been listening silently and motionless. She now closed her eyes ...
— The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford • Mark Rutherford
... Lucy always enjoyed. She would sit for hours under her awnings and watch the lazy boats crawling in and out of the inlet, or the motionless steamers—motionless at that distance—slowly unwinding their threads of smoke. The Station particularly interested her. Somehow she felt a certain satisfaction in knowing that Archie was at work and that he had ...
— The Tides of Barnegat • F. Hopkinson Smith
... motionless. Suddenly her eye lighted up—she darted into the carriage, and clapped her hands ...
— A Love Story • A Bushman
... heart to hail them; they would see soon enough. And almost immediately Mary did look up and see the two horsemen. She spoke over her shoulder, and Clare quickly appeared from her tent. The two women awaited them motionless. ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner
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