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Example sentences for "remained motionless"

  • We remained motionless, looking into one another's eyes, in mute astonishment, as we confessed afterwards, to find neither guilt nor repentance in our breasts.

  • We remained motionless, speechless, wrapped up in the most profound despair.

  • I remained motionless for a long while, stupefied, benumbed, and mastered by the agitation of my excited senses as well as by my thoughts.

  • At this reply, which I had quite expected, I remained motionless, feeling sure that she must be in a state of desperate irritation at the work half begun and not concluded.

  • I remained motionless; the little that I understood of the position made me fear the worst.

  • I rose up free, but I remained motionless, for surprise rooted me to the spot.

  • I remained motionless, my intellectual powers almost dormant, and my eyes fixed upon that soft golden reflection that gilded the ceiling.

  • The colours recovered their brilliancy on its quivering skin; and, slightly turning its head, it remained motionless in the attitude of attention and pleasure.

  • He remained motionless a few seconds, his hand upon his heart.

  • He remained motionless for a minute, and I thought I had killed him.

  • He remained motionless, his hands clenched at his side.

  • Already astonished by this singularity, she was about mechanically to draw towards her an armchair placed against the wall, when she found that it remained motionless.

  • Djalma was bathed in a burning dew, his dizzy excitement increased, and, with bloodshot eye and heaving bosom, he remained motionless, gazing almost without the power of thought.

  • The soldier, drying his eyes and moustache with his little blue cotton handkerchief, remained motionless as the god Terminus.

  • Gwynplaine, speechless, and with eyes downcast like a criminal, remained motionless.

  • The child, at once repulsed and invited, remained motionless.

  • It remained motionless; it stirred not under the hands of the child.

  • He then left him to rejoin his own troops, and Junot, confounded, remained motionless.

  • The gendarmes remained motionless, like men accustomed to see these violent scenes terminate without effect, and sure of obeying best by disobeying.

  • For a moment he remained motionless on that spot, so agitated by conflicting thoughts and feelings that he could read neither heart nor mind clearly.

  • However, he remained motionless, ensconced in his corner, speaking to nobody, but staring straight before him with dilated eyes.

  • While the sweet notes of that delicious music floated on the air, Garcés remained motionless.

  • For a moment he remained motionless, chilled by the deathlike silence of the room, from which not the faintest sound issued.

  • Pascal grew still paler; he remained motionless, in an attitude of utter dejection.

  • The secret vexation caused by waiting had brought back all her hostility, and she, who had burned to throw herself on his neck in the morning, remained motionless as if chilled and repelled by him.

  • The first, struck in its leap by a bullet which passed through its right eye, rolled on the ground, where it remained motionless.

  • Tomaso did not rise again: he remained motionless, stretched out on the uneven floor of the meson.

  • Unicorn and two other chiefs dismounted, and followed him into the palace; while the Indian warriors, in spite of the heat of the sunbeams that played on their heads, remained motionless on the spot where their caciques bade them wait.

  • The ship did not move again, and we, we also, remained motionless.

  • I remained motionless, my eyes staring, my ears on the stretch with expectation.

  • He watched his distance from that man increase, while he remained motionless, without being able to account to himself for the fact that so much empty space had come in between them.

  • He remained motionless, listening to the rattle of blocks and the creaking of trusses as the head-yards were hauled round.

  • He feared that he would be held by insults if he fled before he was attacked; and with the hope of being unmolested, he remained motionless, overcome by a feeling which was not fear, but something more than prudence.

  • He remained motionless, with bowed head, and his eyes dimmed with tears of rage, while his brutal enemy finished formulating his denunciation.


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