The sight of his stolid immobility merely sharpened their hunger, for there was never any passion in this hulk of a man.

But they watched him with a sullen envy of his immobility.

In great affairs there is the immobility of statues; in petty mean affairs there is the immobility of puppets.

In great affairs there is the immobility of statues; in petty mean affairs there is the immobility of puppets.

Through the gloom he divined a new swiftness in her step, a certain sinuosity of movement that suddenly melted into immobility.

The display of her dress and her hair, her rouge, beneath which one could guess her paleness, all the splendor of her toilet, did but the more distinctly bring out the immobility of her countenance.

If men and women are to be regarded as separate grades, they are grades between which immobility is complete.

They were all eagerness and determination, hand at the trigger, eyes on the approaching enemy, every muscle strained, yet calm, their bronzed faces hardened into immobility, waiting for the command to fire.

There was something godlike in his immobility, something that was awesome in the way he moved and breathed.

Where great immobility is needed, it is one of the most valuable means of restraint we have.

In our opinion this method of attempting to secure immobility of the crack, and so prevent its extension, is not often followed by success.

Whereas in clamping we obtain immobility of the crack by keeping it fixed in the position of greatest approximation of its edges, in wedging, the crack is rendered free from movement by maintaining it in that position where its edges are most widely separated.

The V-shaped incision we consider most suitable of all, for the reason that by its means a greater degree of immobility is conferred upon the necessary portion of the wall.

Like a covey of partridge, they all stood up, stretching, twisting their bodies, stiff and torpid after the long hours of immobility.

Good behavior in the Washington Street School, as in a penitentiary, was gauged by the degree of silence and immobility achieved by the inmates.

Not the movement of a finger broke the stonelike immobility of his attitude.

Ned Trent promptly pinned him by the shoulder into powerless immobility.

On every side the vanity of human pride, which will not learn a lesson even under the stern teaching of death, was contrasted with the awe that sat upon the faces of the assistants, and with the immobility of the livid countenance which gleamed out pale and ghastly from amid its glittering drapery!

His immobility repelled these pleadings.

The door maintained its immobility; behind it there seemed to be no living being.

Total immobility often passes for pluck.

At length, at the breaking of the seventh or eighth day, Abdel-Rhaman, at the head of his cavalry, ordered a general attack; and the Franks received it with serried ranks, astounding their enemies by their tall stature, stout armor, and their stern immobility.

" The foreman studied keenly the face of Charming Billy, saw there an immobility that somehow belied his cheerful view of the case, and abruptly changed the subject.

the two sons, though their hands might plainly be seen to tremble, maintained a deep, distressed immobility, and because it was neither right to upbraid them to their faces, nor to judge them publicly, a piece of the sermon which concerned Madam Melcombe's sorrow, caused by their desertion, was mercifully left out.

He mistook the responsive excitement produced by the ideas and visions of others for authentic inspiration, the vivacity of a sociable and conversational gift for the creative force of genius, and the immobility of obvious and established conventional judgments for an extraordinary soundness and incisiveness of fundamental analysis.