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Example sentences for "moveless"

Lexicographically close words:
movables; move; moveable; moveables; moved; movement; movements; movens; mover; movere
  1. Wrong ever builds on quicksands, but the Right To the firm centre lays its moveless base.

  2. Thy shroud is all of snowy white, And, in the middle of the night, Thou standest moveless and upright, Gazing upon me, Rosaline!

  3. After that, as we went on into the east, we saw no men; only the sleeping river, the moveless forest, and the White Silence of the North.

  4. They propped themselves in the snow beneath the moveless wind-vane, and waited.

  5. The almost moveless sharp air carried a myriad fascinating scents which human nostrils were too gross to register; but which were acutely plain and understandable to the great dog.

  6. By the time he could reach the spot where Lady lay crumpled and moveless in the ditch, the runabout had gathered full speed and was disappearing down the bend of the highway.

  7. Elizabeth, between other thoughts, was tempted to think that her companion was as impassive and cold as the moonlight, and as moveless as the dark mountain lines that stood against the sky.

  8. It ceased, and from the mute and moveless frame A radiant spirit arose, All beautiful in naked purity.

  9. Nothing--it stands to tell A melancholy tale, to give An awful warning: soon Oblivion will steal silently The remnant of its fame.

  10. Throughout this varied and eternal world Soul is the only element: the block 140 That for uncounted ages has remained The moveless pillar of a mountain's weight Is active, living spirit.

  11. Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear, Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene.

  12. Let not a breath be seen to stir Around yon grass-grown ruin's height, Let even the restless gossamer 120 Sleep on the moveless air!

  13. It sent a gulp into the throat of more than one standing moveless in the street.

  14. The half-moon brightened upon him sitting moveless beside the stone figure.

  15. I grew cold and numb beneath their moveless aspect; and constant gazing upon eyes lighted up by no varying expression, pressed upon my tired senses with a more than nightmare weight.

  16. I felt a sort of dull stagnation through every limb, which held me bound where I sat, pulseless and moveless as the phantoms on which I gazed.

  17. The day was narrowed in mist from earth to heaven: a moveless and possessing mist.

  18. Moveless as you find them, they are not yet all gross clay, and I say again, the true word spoken has its chance of somewhere alighting and striking root.

  19. After which he stood frowning down in puzzled conjecture on the moveless Gavin.

  20. Brice, in the darkness, just inside the gateway, stood moveless and waited for him to traverse the hundred feet or so that remained between him and the veranda.

  21. Then, all at once, he ceased to struggle, and lay limp and moveless in the conqueror's grasp.

  22. Claire, deathly pale, still crouched forward, staring blindly at the moveless white figure at the head of the path.

  23. He, With last resistant agony of will, Kept moveless his blanched lips, and on his seat Sat stricken upright, and so stared at Paul.

  24. Paul, his fixed eyes pointing his moveless aim Full in the faces of the elders, said: "Brethren, in all good conscience have I lived In loyalty toward God unto this day.

  25. Again the specks would begin to grow larger, and the birds would return easily on moveless wings.

  26. In the near distance a German captive balloon sticks up moveless against the sky.

  27. He stood moveless staring up at her; never, perhaps, had human eyes asked so definite a question or begged so definite a boon.

  28. So bruised and bloodless of skin were they, so bleak and sharp of feature, so stark and hollow of eye, so rigid and moveless of limb that they might have been corpses.

  29. Sometimes his frame through many an hour he spread Upon a tombstone, moveless as the dead; And, was there found a sad and silent place, There would he creep with slow and measured pace.

  30. At dead of night I seem to see Thy fair, pale features constantly Upturned in silent prayer for me, O'er moveless clasped hands, Isabel!

  31. Moveless and mute, the girl sat unconsciously clutching the edge of the table as if it were the one stable fact in her whirling world; all her bravado dissipating as her daze of wonder yielded successively to doubt, suspicion, consternation.

  32. Left alone, Leslie lay for many moments moveless and silent, but not sleeping.

  33. For many moments she stood moveless and silent, her brow contracted, the desperate look in her eyes growing deeper, her lips compressing themselves into fixed firm lines.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moveless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.