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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 Baily, Waldron

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 Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Beneath me the peaks of the Caucasus lie, My gaze from the snow-bordered cliff I am bending; From her sun-lighted eyry the Eagle ascending Floats movelessly on in a line with mine eye.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

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 Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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