Then, with a scarcely audible rustle, all the faces became the backs of heads and all the eyes went to the figure unstirring by the corner window.
He bent down to stare at Schomberg who sat unstirring with stony eyes and set features, and apparently deaf to the rasping derision of that laughter so close to his red fleshy ear.
His concern primarily was with the delayed breakfast, but at once his slanting eyes became immovably fixed upon the unstirring curtain.
The beach was empty, the villages seemed deserted; the trees far off stood in unstirring clumps, as if painted; the white smoke of some invisible bush-fire spread itself low over the shores of the bay like a settling fog.
The land and the water slept invisible, unstirring and mute.
Darkness oozed out from between the trees, through the tangled maze of the creepers, from behind the great fantastic and unstirring leaves; the darkness, mysterious and invincible; the darkness scented and poisonous of impenetrable forests.
At the foot of big, towering trees, trunkless nipa palms rose from the mud of the bank, in bunches of leaves enormous and heavy, that hung unstirring over the brown swirl of eddies.
To make assurance doubly sure he dropped upon one knee and made that shotgun an unstirring part and portion of himself.
The heron watched the process, unstirring as a dead stump, till he thought the man was coming too near.
For some minutes after the sound of footsteps had died away in the distance, he lay unstirring on his branch, his ears alert to the tiniest forest whisper, his nostrils quivering as they interrogated every subtlest forest scent.
One could see his head outlined against the grey unstirring sky, first bending back, then down into his breast, then back again; and that soft song of his filled all the air, like an invocation of fertility.
Trees, stripped of every leaf, raised their bare clean twigs towards a sky so grey and so unstirring that there might never have been wind or sun.
Silence held the place, abandoned now by the furies, to the smile on two unstirring faces.
He lifted the unstirring body and posed it in a relaxed attitude of ease upon the broad couch that stood at one side of the hearth.
Facing him, across the unstirring darkness of the forest shone palely the great new-risen moon.
He gazed and gazed, until it seemed he was sinking down, down into those wide unstirring eyes.
Their foliage clipped out between the uprights made as if several frames of thick unstirring leaves reflecting the lamplight in a green glow.
He was ready to indulge in the sweetness of a sentimental mood had it not struck him suddenly that Captain Whalley, unstirring and without a word, seemed to be awaiting something--perhaps expecting .
The unstirring air had a dream-solidity against her cheeks.
Though it was the last night of August, the heat was as great as ever--a deep, unstirring warmth; the climbing moon shot as yet but a thin shaft here and there through the heavy foliage.
Every now and then he drew a long breath of the warm, unstirring air, and smiled, without knowing that he smiled.
Karen lay on the bed, unstirring save for a slight tremor of her shoulders now and then.
The girl still lay unstirring among the pillows on the sofa.
But she was too weary to argue the point; her cheek rested unstirring against his shoulder; once or twice her eyes opened vaguely, and her hand crept toward the orchids at her breast.
What was left above water of the Emma had burst into a clear flame under the shadow of the cloud, the great smoky cloud that hung solid and unstirring above the tops of the forest, visible for miles up and down the coast and over the Shallows.
His thought escaped him and he stood motionless, looking out into the unstirring mist pervaded by the perfect silence.
A group of women standing on a low knoll gazed intently, and nothing of them but the heads showed above the unstirring stalks of a maize field.
The calm surface of the bay reflected the glorious night sky, and the brig with the prau riding astern seemed to be suspended amongst the stars in a peace that was almost unearthly in the perfection of its unstirring silence.
The last cry of his appeal to her mercy rose loud, vibrated under the sombre canopy, darted among the boughs startling the white birds that slept wing to wing--and died without an echo, strangled in the dense mass of unstirring leaves.
Her unexpected shout seemed to fill the sunlit space of cleared grounds, rise high and run on far into the land over the unstirring tree-tops of the forests.
So very gradually, and glancing to and fro into these unstirring groves, I came presently to the entrance court of the solitary villa on the cliff-side.
It was black and unstirring in there now, very different from the lingering, bird-befriended brightness of six hours ago!
On the dark unstirring trees innumerable flowers and buds all soft and blurred were being bewitched to life by the creeping moonlight.
Seraphina's unstirring head was lighted strongly by a two-branched sconce on the wall; and when I stood by her side, not even the shadow of the eyelashes on her cheek trembled.
He crouched unstirring for so long that at last the shadows began to deepen perceptibly.
