93 examples of immobile in sentences

The Boy, quite conscious of some subtle change in the hitherto immobile face of the Indian, laid the token in his hand.

Not a countenance but wore that immobile look, the fixed, unseeing eye of the spent runner, who is overtaxing heart and lungs.

From time to time you catch a glimpse of the black sphinx-faces, immobile and heavy-eyed, framed in scarves bearing a bold pattern of red monkeys and blue palm-trees: and as the din increases the owners of those inscrutable faces creep out and sink down upon a strip of china matting on the far side of the room.

With the transport allotted to the force in the middle of 1917 it was not possible to maintain more than one infantry division at a distance of twenty to twenty-five miles beyond railhead, and this could only be done by allotting to them all the camels and wheels of other divisions and rendering these immobile.

She could see the faces of both men, Gratton's twitching and vindictive, King's immobile, looking at once calm and terribly stern.

But Jack Harpe sat immobile.

"In three hours the position, which for eighteen days had resisted every attack and held the British force immobile, was in our hands.

A slave, here, must be defined as an individual, a piece of property, who was excluded from membership in human society but, in later legal texts, was included under domestic animals and immobile property, while serfs as a class depended upon another class and had certain rights, at least the right to work on the land.

The immobile face, the awkward gestures, the slipshod English became suddenly transparent, revealing the real man; a man of titanic strength, of tremendous possibilities for good or evil.

"'Voir," the carpenter replied, still immobile in his chair by the door.

Immobile with terror, he didn't respond to Zimbardo's command.

The advent of the following summer was marked by two events of importance; Mouser, the Penniman cat, after being repeatedly foiled throughout the winter, had gained access to the little house on a day when windows and doors were open for cleaning, stalked the immobile blue jay, and falling upon his prey had rent the choice bird limb from limb, scattering over a wide space wings, feathers, cotton, and twisted wire.

The glass eye of course has an air of extreme conviction, but if it really is Skinner'sand even Mrs. Skinner did not certainly know if that immobile eye of his was glasssomething has changed it from a liquid brown to a serene and confident blue.

It is only the immobile, and not other creatures, that may live without acting.

In the three worlds with all their mobile and immobile creatures, there is none who is incapable of being slain by this weapon.

As the rays of the sun heat this mobile and immobile universe, so will the shafts shot by Arjuna's hands scorch my sons.

Indeed, though his speech was rapid and incisive, and his every movement full of an allure that spoke of splendidly poised muscles, he was in face and manner alike the most singularly immobile man I had ever met.

I found her confronting Monsieur Power, who was leaning in an attitude characteristically immobile against the landing carriage of his machine.

The rest of his features remained almost immobile.

And Stumph, grave and immobile, was betrayed into an expression of astonishment when his master and guest sat down to the same dinner in their work-a-day attire.

Around this form, frozen into the immobile, sacerdotal, hieratic pose of a Hindoo god, burned perfumes wafting aloft clouds of incense which were perforated, like phosphorescent eyes of beasts, by the fiery rays of the stones set in the throne.

The antiquity so marvelously restored by Flaubert remained cold and immobile in his hands.

The two figures in the chair were like statues in their immobile, relentless, unswerving embrace.

Mais partez, partez!... DE GRIGNON, immobile et restant sur place.

Assise sur le divan de la bibliothèque, immobile et la tête

93 examples of  immobile  in sentences