For five seconds the three companions stood petrified with horror, not daring to move; then followed another scream, if anything more horrible than the last, and accompanied this time by the clanking rattle of a chain being dragged across the floor.

There petrified in an alien substance, this characteristic quality of poetic was transmitted to another age which knew of it through no other source.

At a sight so full of horror, Nouronihar fell back like one petrified into the arms of Vathek, who cried out with a convulsive sob: "O Mohammed!

In silhouette, a man's head, his hand grasping a staff or the muzzle of a gun, remained there as still as though, crawling to the verge, he lay petrified in the act of spying.

Katherine and Oh-Pshaw sat petrified at the apparition.

He stood petrified for a moment; then he felt again with one feverish movement; and then his loss burst upon him, and he was covered with perspiration.

And, hearing it, Spinrobin this time was so petrified with an instantaneous rush of terror, that at first he dared not even move to find the matches again under his pillow.

The Fury, Justice, halted petrified before the Fury, Extermination.

Charlie was almost petrified at the change wrought in his father.

Let him beware, or he will himself be petrified after death.

For a moment his heart was assailed by something like a pricking of conscience, but the emotion was only transitory, and his heart became petrified as before.

"They have become petrified among the minerals there," said the collector angrily.

Thou crouchest by a sea Whose fawn-hued wavelets clasp thy buried feet: Whose desert-surface, petrified like thee, Gleams white with sails of many an Arab fleet: Whose tawny billows, surging with the storm, Break on thy flanks, and overleap thy form; Majestic Sphinx!

"Of that fair dream thou art the memory, My genius, in its wildest fancy, bound And petrified to immortality!