The artist stood immoveable before a large portrait, whose frame had once been richly gilt, although it now scarcely retained a few tarnished vestiges of its former splendour.
Hence a notion may be formed of the reason why men departed from the primaeval state of holding all things in common, attaching the ideas of property, first to moveable and next to immoveable things.
Things immoveable are generally taken by some public act, such as marching an army into the country, or placing garrisons there.
But the duke remained immoveable in his entrenchments, and contented himself with answering this challenge by a distant fire of cannon and musketry.
But distrusting the constancy of that good fortune, which had so unexpectedly smiled upon them, they hastened to get quit of these insecure possessions, and to convert their immoveable into transferable property.
But he, remaining immoveablein the confession of the Lord, and deriding them, was more furiously beaten.
As soon as any one of the Templars fell, another, he tells us, would immediately take his place, and thus they remained upon the breach immoveable as a rock.
I prayed, threatened, and reasoned by turns: she was as immoveable as Mount Atlas.
Thomas fixed himself, therefore, on the immoveable basis of authority, and grounded his teaching on the monastic methods of the "Sentences.
There was no change in this group while I remained in sight; they were as immoveable as statues.
In June it unfolds itself upon the green surface of the immoveable cone in fine relief.
The Lettres a un medecin de province, in a style of lively criticism, labour to show a great variety of inconsistencies in this immoveable doctrine.
After it was ascertained that an immoveable introsusception existed-- "The patient was placed on a convenient table.
He remained immoveable as a statue wherever he was placed, and was wholly regardless of all that was done to him or about him.
The immoveable solidity of the edifice, the huge masses which compose it, the hieroglyphics it is loaded with, stamp it as a work of the ancient Egyptians.
His nets being once well laid, he has nothing to do but to put himself on the watch; accordingly, immoveable and concealed at the bottom of the ditch which he has dug, he patiently waits for the prey which he cannot pursue.
She stood immoveable in deep musing for some time.
Several times he attempted to force his way into Sibella's chamber; and, finding me immoveable resolved that he should not see her, he gave way to the most violent bursts of indignation and invective, whose chief object was my mother.
But in no government of consequence in Europe, is freedom established on its true and immoveable foundation.
Old Entellus stands immoveable and astrain, only parrying hits with body and watchful eye.
All the stalls, the altar, and other immoveable furniture, remain as he found them.
You stand still, gazing round until your delight changes into astonishment at such an effect being produced by immoveable walls and a few columns.
He tried how firm the twigs were, which plaited in one another formed the bottom of the nest; when he had assured himself of a thick and immoveable one, he swung himself off of the ladder.
Rudy had never been so high before, had never before trodden on the vast sea of snow, which lay there with its immoveable waves.
She rose from her chair, and stood immoveable for a moment, gazing at a vase of red and white flowers that stood on the mantel before her eyes.
Down in Whitechapel, it was known to the Winch girls and the Woodseers that Captain Kirby and his wife had spent the bitterest of hours in vainly striving to break their immoveable sister's will to remain there.
He listened with immoveable attention: and when I had finished, he said, "You have not yet told me what your views are in coming to America.
Leegart remained immoveable in her chair, only placing her feet more firmly on her footstool, which seemed seized with a sudden trembling.
With these words Schilder-David rushed on Speidel-Roettmann, but the latter seized the old man's arms with such a powerful grasp, that they were as immoveable as if fastened into a vice.
Julian,--"my resolutions are as immoveable as the centre!
What Count Julian of the Mount has spoken is as immoveable as the earth.
What I have said, is said--my resolutions are as immoveable as the centre, and I'd sooner encounter the axe than break them.
What I have said, that I will do, is as immoveable as the centre!
For I have made a resolution to be your good vassal for the future; and, as my good friend Count Julian of the Mount says, my resolutions are as immoveable as the centre.
We find that the law of all ancient nations drew a marked distinction between moveable and immoveable property, and that the power of disposing of the former by sale, pledge, in dowry, partition etc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "immoveable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
