A storm had occurred during the night, but the morning sun shone unclouded, and the shadowy lake, gleaming darkly in its setting of fresh snow, lay smooth and motionless as a mirror.

The woods are calm and the ripe colors are blazing in all their glory; the cone-laden trees stand motionless in the warm, hazy air, and you may see the crimson-crested woodcock, the prince of Sierra woodpeckers, drilling some dead limb or fallen trunk with his bill, and ever and anon filling the glens with his happy cackle.

They were very shy on account of being hunted so much; but after I had been silent and motionless for half an hour or so they began to venture out of their holes and to feed on the seeds of the grasses and thistles around me as if I were no more to be feared than a tree-stump.

Dr. Moncrieff, to whom it was new, was quite motionless on the other side of the wall, as we were in our places.

Then he opened them and stood motionless with amazement.

Broken Tooth and the other beavers had wrought a big change in what had once been his home and Gray Wolf's, and for many minutes Kazan stood silent and motionless at the edge of the pond, sniffing the air heavy with the unpleasant odor of the usurpers.

Then he looked around and saw Lawyer Watson, who had stood motionless by the doorway, and with a cry that was half a sob Kenneth threw himself into his old friend's arms and burst into a flood of tears.

He stood for a moment motionless before the veiled figure.

The boy grasped it in both his own, and held it for several minutes while he stood motionless beside her, his wide eyes fixed intently upon her own.

Commandthat indefinable spirit which is vouchsafed to gentle people, while rough and strong men miss itwas written in every line of her face, every fold of her dress, in the quiet of her small, white hands, resting motionless against her skirt.

It was so delicious that for a moment I remained motionless from sheer pleasure; then lying back again in my chair with a little gasp I drew another great cloud of smoke deep down into my lungs.

Every branch stood motionless beneath its burden of snow.

" "Why not?" "Why, which is better off, the free swimming larva, or the perfect cirrhipod, rooted for ever motionless to the rock?" "Which is better off, the roving young fellow who is sowing his wild oats, or the man who has settled down, and become a respectable landowner with a good house over his head?"

We ventured pretty near, but it remained quite motionless without turning its eyes from us, and little thinking how near its death was.

Robin Hood Shoots Before Queen Eleanor THE HIGHROAD stretched white and dusty in the hot summer afternoon sun, and the trees stood motionless along the roadside.

But in spite of this, he is a difficult bird to find; for if anything is 'remote, unfriendly, solitary, slow,' it is the American Bittern, who often stands motionless among the reeds for hours.

The noise seemed to startle her, and she sank back into her chair and sat there white and motionless during the remainder of the session.

Heaven and earth listened to it; the sea stopped roaring and lay peacefully near the shores; even pale Selene stopped her night wandering in the sky and stood motionless over Athens.

nor from my lip In faint or hurried language speak! Be motionless within my eye, And never wander to my cheek!

All round him were trees with straight, tall grey trunks, and behind and beyond them yet other treestrees everywhere that stood motionless like pillars of stone supporting the dim green roof of foliage far above.

A French official, motionless near Ulysses on the bridge, was admiring the beauty of the day and the sea.

The fancy of the artist would represent the dreary and frightful appearance of the ice-covered sea, stretching away as far as the eye could reach, a bleak and boundless waste; the dark and broken clouds driving across the fitful sky; the ship motionless amidst the islands and mountains of ice, her shrouds and sails being fringed and stiffened with the frozen spray.

Then, at the new moon, the weather had changed, the sky grew warm again, the little clouds hung high and motionless above the peaks, melting from day to day to a serene, deep calm, in which, all the earth seemed to be ripening in a great stillness while heaven held its breath, and the mountains slept.

The cork-trees nod languidly to each other; and not even yonder far-away marble peaks are more motionless than that cloud which hangs like a white banner in the sky.

Once a twig snapped under foot, and after that he remained motionless through a long moment, shrinking against the trunk of a tree and scanning the forest anxiously in all directions.