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A tulip-wreath Twines round her shadowy, free-floating hair: Young, weary, passionate, and sad as death, Dark visions haunt for her the vacant air, While movelessly she lies With lithe, lax, folded hands and heavy eyes.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma

To sit movelessly there, while the car reeled recklessly on the edge of abysses, was a supreme trial of self-control.

From Heart of the Blue Ridge by Baily, Waldron

Lynde lay movelessly; her face was white, and both fear and appeal were visible in her large dilated eyes.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

The Governor resumed his seat and bent his deliberate gaze on the figure that had been standing movelessly before him.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie

They listened, movelessly, soundlessly; and when he stopped there was still neither move nor sound until he had wrapped his violin in its bear-skin and had returned to John Cummins and the little Mélisse.

From The Honor of the Big Snows by Curwood, James Oliver