moveless
Americanadjective
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A square of water, as blue as a banner, a liquid panel like a window into star-space, it dreams, moveless, in the white tile floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fire had burned down long since and there was no light but those strips and slants of dimness creeping across the circle, sketching out a face, a hand, a moveless back.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
She cowered, moveless, nose to floor, awaiting her doom.
From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson
Louise Barnard sits moveless for a time, then rises, and draws her light Summer scarf about her shoulders with a resolute gesture.
From Out of a Labyrinth by Lynch, Lawrence L.
Fixed and precise in his attitude, and moveless in his person, he poured forth his thoughts and views with a rapidity, yet distinctness, that startled one.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler
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