His attitude, his whole being, was expressive of that immovability of purpose which had hitherto been concealed from her by his quiet manner.

While Apollonie and Mr. Trius had been absorbed in their violent altercation and had stared at each other, she in wild excitement and he in stiff immovability, Mäzli had slipped from between the two as swiftly as a little mouse.

No Gorgon's head could have consigned her to immovability more hopeless.

But the dull immovability and sense of importance which characterized him now seemed to the doctor to be almost tragically charged with the typical matter-of-fact courage of the Englishman; who displays neither fear nor emotion; and who would regard with horror the suspicion that such repression might be heroic.

The apparition of Zacharias stunned him to immovability.

To begin with, the arm-chair in which the patient was always directed to sit, was nailed to the floor, since its immovability tended to impart this same excellent characteristic to the occupant.

" In his growing excitement, Mr. Mudge attempted to drag the chair forward a little nearer to his listener, and then smiled faintly as he resigned himself instantly again to its immovability, and plunged anew into the recital of his singular "disease.

No Hindu Yogis ever sat meditating with the absolute immovability of the three, and as our wounds stiffened under the cold night air, we became foolishly angry at the wait.

Jim had not joined in the laugh over Pete's explanation; he had remained impassive through the whole scene; but the readiness with which he knocked Leddy's revolver down showed that this immovability had let nothing escape his quiet observation.

Not until he returned and stood before me with his feet planted a little apart, giving an impression of purposeful immovability to his wiry figure, did I note that his eyes belied the general jauntiness of his personality.

In that home in the Marina he wished to live and die, with no further desire of seeing more lands, with that sudden immovability that attacks the vagabonds of the waves and makes them fix themselves upon a ledge of the coast like a mollusk or bunch of seaweed.

In their interstices and hollows the plants were moving like living creatures, and the little animals had the immovability of vegetables and stones.

In the first months of his existence ashore, he was amazed at the desperate immovability of everything.

It was a palm grove, surging up between the rocks, but the rocks were only pebbles, and the palm trees,annelides of the sea,were simply worms holding themselves in upright immovability.

Its nearest relative, the cricket of the sea, a dull and heavy animal, was sulking in the corners covered with mire and with sea weed, in an immovability that made it easily confounded with the stones.

Ferragut passed many mornings contemplating their treacherous immovability, followed by deadly unfoldings the moment that their prey came down into the tank.

They would drink slowly, interrupting their relish of the liquor to lament together the immovability of the Mare Nostrum.

This individual with the air of a procurer must be greatly to blame for the immovability of the steamer; his heart told him so.

CHAPTER IX THE ENCOUNTER AT MARSEILLES Toni, who abominated railway journeys on account of his torpid immovability, now had to abandon the Mare Nostrum and suffer the torture of remaining twelve hours crowded in with strange persons.

Her fury spent itself unavailingly against the solid immovability of the wood.

The Apaches were discouraged by the immovability of the train, and by the steady and deadly resistance of its defenders.