Word: motionlessness
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Rivers was dead. Schmid and Diamond lay there motionless. Once a lieutenant braved the bullet barrage to give them a hypodermic; once a hospital corpsman brought water. In the full light of morning, they were helped away...
...cuckoo] flying up from behind over my head and settling on the ground about 25 paces beyond me. I ran up to within about ten paces, screened from her sight by a bush, and then saw she was sitting quietly on a small mound, back to me and quite motionless. Presently I saw her put her head down and her shoulders heave, as if she were being sick, and then immediately fly to a spot in the hedge a little farther on. Following her up I saw she had got to a nest of the Jungle Babbler and was sitting...
...darkness a Norwegian girl screamed, then sobbed. Two men heard her. They remained motionless. They knew she was being raped. But in Quisling Norway "no one shall interfere when a woman screams at night...
Paris was sorrowfully silent that June morning in 1940. Two-thirds of its people had fled. Only a thin line of tense, motionless Parisians with brimming eyes watched German tanks, guns and troops converge on the Place de l'Etoile. When Nazis clumped around the Arc de Triomphe and past the Eternal Flame sheltered above the Unknown Soldier's tomb, then swung haughtily down the broad Champs-Elysées, France's cup ran over...
...neither of despair nor grief but rather a paroxysm of savage passion, most impressive to witness and startling to hear. During the lulls in their death-song they would resume their pipes and with the exception of an occasional mutter or the rattling of their chains they sat motionless and impassive until one among the elder would break out in the wild wail...