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
Phantom-like, motionless, lay the President on the oily moveless deep, a corpse-like hull upon the lifeless water.
From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf
Left alone, Leslie lay for many moments moveless and silent, but not sleeping.
From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lynch, Lawrence L.
For a good ten minutes he waited, moveless, with the patience of the wild things.
From Hoof and Claw by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
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