What is "moveless"

Usage examples of "moveless".

It ceased, and from the mute and moveless frame A radiant spirit arose, All beautiful in naked purity.

And on the deck, where footing grew precarious with flowing scarlet and moveless corpses.

The two youths withstood the moveless watching as long as they could without intervening.

He stared down and down at the moveless, broken body of him who had been his best friend.

Along the walls stood guards, moveless as heathen idols, the ruddy light aglint on their spearheads.

Black in the light of moon and fire, a shape sat moveless as if graven atop the barrow, under the howling flames.

The boat would lie moveless, rocking ever so little to unseen wavelets, and the only sounds were their muffled slap and the fog dripping from ice-sheathed tackle.

And all the while the meadow scents and the many-colored butterflies rose straight up on the moveless air, and brooded or dropped back into their dwellings.

It had gradually forgotten its seclusiveness, and now dropped its long legs at a point right over the middle of the Perdu, alighted apparently on the liquid surface, and stood suddenly transformed into a moveless statue of a bird, gazing upon the playmates with bright, significant eyes.

The moveless, shrouded figure, the unresponding lips, the bowed heads of the mourners, all came before him as clearly as if he were standing in their midst.

Then on level, all but moveless wing, he sailed away toward the horizon.

And yet, having been aboard that foreshortened, eerie ship, with its pile operating to the very limit of safety, its lopsided passengers moveless as in death, he had a feeling that some factor was being neglected.

Humbler smiles and lordlier tears Shine and fall, shine and fall, While old voices rise and call Yonder where the to-and-fro Weltering of my Long-Ago Moves about the moveless base Far below my resting-place.

I am sick to the soul of yon pallid sky, And the moveless sea beneath.

Gripped in the magic of those lifted arms, she stood rigid, not even realizing what had happened, unable even to think in the moveless magic of Giraud.