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Example sentences for "stood stock"

  • I went by the varmint and there I stood stock still in the door way a starin about like a stuck calf.

  • The result was marvelous; the animal ceased plunging, and, quivering violently, stood stock-still.

  • When both blinkers were open, the ostrich would gallop straight ahead; close his right eye and he turned to the left, close his left and he turned to the right, shut both and he stood stock-still.

  • Wilmshurst, hampered by the cub, stood stock still, fascinated by the awesome sight of the approaching lioness.

  • It was such a tremendous surprise that for a moment the Askaris, save those who dropped, stood stock still.

  • He stood stock-still in a prophetic attitude, as though he were the Genius of Brittany rising from a slumber of three years, to renew a war in which victory could only be followed by twofold mourning.

  • He recognized a pair of eyes the gentleness of which exercised a power of magnetism over him, and he stood stock-still for a moment under their spell.

  • When she was safely in it Galope-Chopine brought Francine the box which contained the ball dress, and having done so he stood stock-still in an attitude of indescribable irresolution.

  • He, therefore, stood stock-still and waited, with a heart ready to burst.

  • He stood stock-still for a while, but nothing moved.

  • Suddenly, at the corner where the spinney ended, he stood stock still.

  • He sang the same verse over and over again, and at the end of the third repetition, he stood stock still, for they had come to the edge of the wood.

  • At last it stood stock still in the middle of the road and would not move.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    best calculated; brief sketch; external goods; fine order; general propositions; handsome fellow; last spring; our business; pleasing unto; pretty brother; quite thick; stood alone; stood away; stood before; stood for; stood gazing; stood listening; stood motionless; stood over; stood ready; stood silent; stood still; stood there; stood thus; stood upon; stood upright