To one who knew the man and his story there was something more striking in this immobility than in a collapse.
And now, in the well-nigh congealed immobility of his frame could be discerned an incipient movement, as in the darkest night may be discerned light after a while.
Case 7) was still more indefinite, ascribing her immobility merely to fear.
Or, possibly his brute intelligence penetrated the dwarf's knavish pusillanimity, and, changing his tactics that he might still range on the side of perversity, resolved himself fromimmobility into a rampant agency of motion.
She could not but perceive his emotion; the tribute of a glance beyond control, despite the proud immobility of his features.
Surprised at the silence and immobility of her customer, the wife came forward, and was seized with a sudden movement of compassion as well as of curiosity when she looked at her.
He copied the immobility of the sisters and stood motionless, letting his eye rove slowly round the room.
This immobility of the countries of the Crescent was once dear to me.
I was surprised to see our hostess shake her head negatively the least bit, for indeed by her pose, by the thoughtful immobility of her face she seemed to be a thousand miles away from us all, lost in an infinite reverie.
Not the gross immobility of a Sphinx proposing roadside riddles but the finer immobility, almost sacred, of a fateful figure seated at the very source of the passions that have moved men from the dawn of ages.
Perhaps he expected me to acknowledge this announcement in some way, speech, or bow, or something, because before my immobility he made a slight movement in his chair which smacked of impatience.
The last of the light gleamed in her long enigmatic eyes as if they were precious enamel in that shadowy head which in its immobility suggested a creation of a distant past: immortal art, not transient life.
The confined space of the little vessel’s quarterdeck would lend itself to her cross-legged attitudes, and the blue sea would balance gently her characteristic immobility that seemed to hide thoughts as old and profound as itself.
Even Terutak' lost that image-like immobility which he had hitherto maintained.
This discovery of human presences latent overhead in a place where we had supposed ourselves alone, the immobility of our tree-top spies, and the thought that perhaps at all hours we were similarly supervised, struck us with a chill.
Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.
Immobility of several centuries, immobility in beings and in things,--one has more and more the consciousness of it as one penetrates farther into this country of forests and of silence.
In striking contrast with the immobility of the American, was the obvious excitement of the Cockney.
It is not a grace taught externally for the sake of beauty or regard for the world, but one which is born of the pleasure felt by the spirit in immobility and silence.
When immobilityis obtained, the room is half-darkened, or else the children close their eyes, or cover them with their hands.
For the immobility was apparent only--a sham, a counterfeit; while behind it the essential being of these things did rush and shift and alter.
He saw the two things side by side: the outer immobility the senses commonly agree upon, and this amazing flying-out of their inner, invisible substance towards the vortex of attracting life that sucked them in.
Behind the solid mass of the Desert's immobility flashed something swift and light and airy.
And after the striking of the blow, this respectability was continued inimmobility and silence.
And for a time the walls of St Stephen’s, with its towers and pinnacles, contemplated in immobility and silence a cab that jingled.
Her cheeks were blanched, her lips ashy, her immobility amazing.
The lady of the house, gazing absently at the Assistant Commissioner, left alone with her on the private side of the screen, seemed to be rearranging her mental impressions behind her thoughtful immobility of a handsome old face.
He listened in a stillness of dread which resembled the immobility of profound attention.
But Mrs Verloc’s lips, composed in their usual form, preserved a statuesque immobility like the rest of her face.
Later on the towers of the Abbey saw in their massive immobility the yellow bush of his hair passing under the lamps.
Her prolonged immobilitydisturbed the comfort of his refection.
The immobility of the Russians completed the error into which the chiefs of the 8th had fallen.
Those who were most devoted to him, accounted for his immobility by the necessity of not changing his place too much, when he was commanding over such an extent, in order that the bearers of intelligence might know where to find him.
Marie Vachier, riveted to her arm-chair during seventeen years by paraplegia, not only runs and flies on emerging from the piscina, but finds no trace even of the sores with which her long-enforced immobility had covered her body.
She, formerly so brimful of life, ever astir and laughing, was dying of inaction and immobility in that box.
The only break in the intense immobility of the reader was that occasionally she moistened her lips with her tongue, and once in a while she drew a long, sighing breath.
Marise wildly, starting from the fascinated immobility in which she had gazed at the nun's face.
You get the right amplitude of leisure and the flat undistracting circumstances he demands, the emptiness and the immobility necessary, when you are waiting for cargo long in coming at a low seaboard.
The silence, the immobility of it all, and the pour of the tropic sun, were just beginning to be a little subduing.
Her beautiful face had the whiteness and the immobility of marble.
His face, to which in the exercise of his austere functions he had managed to give the immobility of marble, reflected the most cruel agitation; while his eyes betrayed the inward agony of his soul.
Absolute immobility of the patient seems to have an influence on the amount of urea excreted.
Footnote 97: Mikulicz has observed with the gastroscope in a case of pyloric cancer immobility of the pylorus and absence of rugae in the mucous membrane of the pyloric region (Wiener med.
The timbre or quality of the voice is often impaired in a peculiar manner by the tumefaction of the throat and the immobility of the soft palate.
It was something like the immobility of a bird of prey, who has just discovered a nest of sparrows, and is gazing at it.
Hence the rapid and innumerable transformations of that architecture which owns but three centuries, so striking after the stagnant immobility of the Romanesque architecture, which owns six or seven.
Then she fell back once more into her immobility and her marble silence.
Coming up the staircase was a thick-set man of medium height with white hair, a brown face, and good features, but of such immobility that they might have been carved in sandstone.
In its frozen immobilityit was dead, yet awfully alive, and the eyes glittered like little crumbs of diamond.
Pompey's immobility was an error because there is in every one an animation, a natural ardor that is instilled by the onset to the combat.
But the excitement in the blood, of the nervous system, opposes the immobility of the weapon in his hands.
Her heavy tone beat at the other's immobility as if with actual blows, and the glass in the cabinet rang and rang in sweet reply.
Finally, irritated by the other's immobility which was obviously not sleep, she entered the room heavily, shutting the door with a sharp click.
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