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motionless

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1. motionless - Adjective

2. motionless - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Without motion; being at rest.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. Livy

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. William Wordsworth

Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye, Frozen by distance. William Wordsworth

Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all. Jean-Paul Sartre

On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh. Aldo Leopold

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. Gore Vidal

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