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movelessly

  • a word derived from moveless.
    moveless
    adjective
    lacking movement.

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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 Waldron Baily

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 Hallie Erminie Rives

The light from Sturk's bed-room window, and the red glare of the footman's torch, made two little trembling reflections in the silver spectacles as he stood in the shade, peering movelessly over their shoulders.

From The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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 James Oliver Curwood

One evening at dusk, Sir Bale, sitting after his dinner in his window, saw the tall figure of Feltram, like a dark streak, standing movelessly by the lake.

From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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