China has been petrified by the worship of ancestors.
The Tin Lizzie stood rooted a second, petrified at the revolutionary scheme of his going to the club, companions unmentioned.
I seemed to behold her figure pausing petrified in the darkness, drawing deep breaths, and scarcely knowing whether to curse or pray.
Turning, they saw madame standing there, her face petrified into an expression of terrified surprise.
But what was he doing--what could be his object going about the country with petrified legs, arms, and heads?
And with that, the heartless creature, tossing up his head like an emperor, stalked out of the house, leaving me petrified by the enormity of his baseness.
Varro says they are called #Bougonai# by the Greeks, because they arise from petrified bullocks.
Lippi, Licentiate in Physic of the army of Paris, an account of a petrified Beehive, discovered on the mountains of Siout, in Upper Egypt.
It was a felicitous expression of Goethe's to call a noble cathedral "frozen music," but it might even better be called "petrified mathematics.
Consequently they stood stock-still, petrified with amazement, when they saw two white men and a maroon with naked swords rush almost noiselessly into the room.
He had taken but a few more steps when, rounding the projecting cliff, he came upon a scene which petrified him with astonishment.
Sir Fulke, in the language of deep contrition, confessed a train of deception that petrified his son.
Grief and horror had locked up the avenues of complaint, and I sat as one petrified to stone.
There was a single shriek from the bride of Thomas Saunders; no sound left the dry lips of the other watchers, who stood as if petrified and kept their eyes glued upon the disappearing yacht.
He stood as one petrified for a full minute, unable to at once grasp the meaning of the performance.
The Barada has worn a deep bed, and on either side the remains of petrified leaves and stems are visible in the rude conglomerate of the banks.
A tradition exists that Elijah turned the fruits of the garden to stone, and the huge geodes in the white chalk of the valley are shown as the petrified fruit.
Roman Catholicism has petrified the heart and the fancy; and a petty round of ceremonies, feasts, and social parties dissipates energy and distracts the powers of those who are not under the influence of the Church.
The one speaks to us of a petrified old age; the other of an immortal youth.
Farther beyond, and as far as the eye could reach, the undulating plain appeared like a petrified ocean after the sweeping tempest.
This seems to be one of the conditions of silicification, for when these pulpy masses of wood are permitted to dry by the cessation of the springs, the most perfect specimens of petrified wood are the result.
But the poor Irishman was evidently petrifiedby the apparition.
They stood so long thus that it seemed as though the little animal and the man had been petrified by the unwonted sound.
Gabriel saw in this a petrified symbol of prayer, rising direct to Heaven, without assistance or support.
Some animals have ever fed upon the flesh of other animals, as their petrified remains, enclosing the masticated and half-digested fragments of other animals, testify.
They often become, too, an anemoscope, pointing out the direction of the wind, while the petrified surface shows us just how many drops fell, quite as accurately as the most delicate pluviameter.
In the petrified rain drops we find an indelible trace of the most gentle shower.
The laws of gravitation be damned," said the miner, "they were petrified too.
He was deliberately arranging the rifle while speaking, but never for one instant took his eye off the bear, which still stood motionless, with one paw raised, as if petrified with amazement at what it saw.
Medusa had herself beenpetrified before she turned others to stone.
The people seemed petrified in the attitudes in which Mayakin's speech had overtaken them.
The latter sat with drooping head, motionless, as though petrified in thought and prayer.
And he remained as though petrified in a broken, uncomfortable attitude, all distorted, with an expression of pain on his face.
We shall see what is going to happen," hissed Foma, and suddenly he became as petrified in malicious calm.
Then rang out the wild, deafening shrieks of the women, and the terror-stricken screams of men, and all the figures on the raft remained petrified in their places.
He stood gazing with the petrified look of despair; Malique boldly advanced and placed himself before his master, with the resolute courage of one who has determined upon his part.
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