Word: motionlessness
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Last week a huge stone, hurling down from a partly wrecked tower, burst through the Chapel roof, obliterated the blasphemous mural of Wilhelm, and finally became motionless below the unscathed portrait of Jehovah...
...England, the Matamata terrapin at the London Zoo, having lain motionless in a corner of its tank for months, last week shoved out its legs, walked a short distance, drew in its legs, lay motionless...
...WhenNorthern Chinese troops tried to enter the international city at Shanghai, last week, they were turned back by British "Cold Water Soldiers,"* standing motionless with fixed bayonets. Disgruntled, the Northern soldiers, mere organized bandits, turned back into the Chinese quarter and there began heartlessly to exact from helpless merchants a tribute...
...take the heroine in his arms for a final embrace, General Slodak dramatically thrusts the Latavian flag between them; the queen stands sternly pointing to it, the heroine collapses and is partially supported by the comedian, the prince stands, hands clenched in awful agony. Thus the tableau remains motionless through three or four curtains. It was like the living statues one used to see at the circus. One always wonders what would happen if one of the statues had to sneeze or actually did get the proverbial hiccoughs...
...middle-sized men-welter-weights-looking small in the big ring at Madison Square Garden, under a motionless pour of white light like metallic milk, scuffed and bobbed and perked and knuckled. One was named Joe Dundee, the other Eddie Roberts. A month ago Roberts knocked Dundee out in one round. Wise people did not think he could do it again. The betting was even. Well did little Dundee show that he deserved this confidence when, after taking a count of eight in the fourth round, he came out of his corner like a loose propeller, pounded Roberts bloody until...