Word: motionlessly
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...hand. Terrified out of his wits, what was his astonishment to find that some children were addressing him in soft imploring accents. They had stumbled upon him on their way to school. Now, when they go to school he struts behind them; while they construe their lessons he "stands motionless on one leg in the corner"; in the afternoon he "marches home before them like a bandmaster...
...statue, while the landscape, leaping out of shadow at the summons of his fantastic torch, assumed around him an aspect of exaggerated horror; water-rotted trees at the river's edge stretched their arms in stiff attitudes of torment, like ghouls petrified in the death-agony; the motionless grain at his feet seemed to have been cemented, by the mist and the strange light, into an acre of solid stone. As he peered under his hand, trying in vain to see beyond the circle his flare had chiseled in the concave night, he looked like a man standing...
...they went. Each monster stared about him through one enormous glassy eye. To their heads were attached trailing rubbery tubes like skeins of attenuated umbilical cords, stretching down to them through the sea from an unknowable parent whose broad bulk rocked gently. For long periods, the monsters would sit motionless on brilliant mushrooms of coral, letting light-obscuring shoals of fish swim over and about them. If an inquisitive shark or surly moray sidled up, the monsters shuffled silently over to a cage near by, entered, fastened the gate behind them, dumbly gave back stare for stare through the wire...
...catchwords, while a new England was turning to a new party for a constructive program. After a of growing-pains, England was looking for fresh shapes into which to crystallize its future. The Labor party made itself the champion of change, while the Tories kept to their tradition of motionless progress. The unhappy Liberals, wracked by the conflict between activity to maintain the society which their reforming zeal had created and desire to remain in the van of "forward-lookers," have, relying on their tradition of laissez-faire, opposed the quasi-Socialism of the Laborites, and thrown in their fate...
...ways," sat Fascist Deputy Armando Casalini with his 14-year-old daughter. As the trolley car moved off, a well-dressed young man answering to the name of Giovanni Corvi jumped on the rear platform, drew a revolver, fired three fatal shots at Casalini, who fell forward and remained motionless despite the pathetically desperate invocations of his frightened daughter. The assassin, having completed his ghastly deed, turned, jumped off the car, fell, picked himself up and made off, chased by an angry mob. Several shots were exchanged between chased and chasers, but without effect. Blind terror made Corvi...