Except for the rapid, heavy voice of the President the hall was very quiet, and from the very silence and motionlessness of those present there exhaled a certain air of tenseness.
They were wild, bold, ravenous; their red eyes glaring upon me as if they waited but for motionlessness on my part to make me their prey.
Then comes a sense of sudden motionlessness throughout all things; as if those who bore me (a ghastly train!
The young girl was sitting with her hands to her temples and her elbows on the long table, minutely examining the motionlessness of a baby lizard, a tiny thing with golden eyes, whom fear seemed to have turned into stone.
Suppose they were in the condition of cataleptics, sensible of what passed around them, but paralyzed to the motionlessness and seeming insensibility of death?
Nothing stirred, I say; there was an affrighting solemnity of motionlessness everywhere.
This motionlessness filled me with sadness on account of my folly of the preceding day, and oppressed me.
Gertie seemed frozen into motionlessness in her corner, almost as if she had had experience of this kind of thing before.
First, it was the absolute stillness and motionlessness of the room that impressed him, so far as any one element predominated.
