moveless
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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
In the same: ——Troubled France Shall listen to thy calm deep voice, and learn That Freedom must be calm if she would fix Her mountain moveless in a heaving world.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various
But for the moveless face upon the pillow beside her, she must have rushed away to hide herself in thicket or cave—perhaps in the river-bed from which she had been rescued so lately.
From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion
An angel-child— Gazing with living eyes on a dead face: The mortal form forsaken, That none may now awaken, That lieth painless, moveless in her place, As though in death she smiled!
From Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Carroll, Lewis
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