movelessness

Nor will the eternal movelessness that is coming to me be made easier or harder by the sacrifices or selfishnesses of the time when I was yeasty and acrawl.

Chapter 8 2010

It seemed that this movelessness and silence on my part was what was expected of me.

CHAPTER III 2010

He was beaten down to movelessness by an overwhelming sense of his own weakness and littleness.

The Makers of Fire 2010

“You know I was travelling to Japan for my health,” she said, as we lingered at the fire after dinner and delighted in the movelessness of loafing.

Chapter 36 2010

For the infinite progression of things in time copies this immediate existence in the present of the changeless life, and when it cannot succeed in equalling it, declines from movelessness into motion, and falls away from the simplicity of a perpetual present to the infinite duration of the future and the past; and since it cannot possess the whole fulness of its life together, for the very reason that in

Consolation of Philosophy 2007

There was an air of gravity and importance about the garb of this person, and something indescribably odd, I might say awful, in the perfect, stone-like movelessness of the figure, that effectually checked the testy comment which had at once risen to the lips of the irritated artist.

The Purcell Papers 2003

A king's majesty or "state," then, and the right of his kingdom to be called a state, depends on the movelessness of both: -- without tremor, without quiver of balance; established and enthroned upon a foundation of eternal law which nothing can alter, nor overthrow.

Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

But we laid him down again and he sank into movelessness and a sleep of all the faculties.

1492, 1922

So motionless he crouched that only death might counterpart his movelessness.

Jungle Tales of Tarzan 1919

” A king’s majesty or “state, ” then, and the right of his kingdom to be called a state, depends on the movelessness of both: —without tremor, without quiver of balance; established and enthroned upon a foundation of eternal law which nothing can alter, nor overthrow.

Sesame and Lilies. Lecture II.-Lilies: Of Queens’ Gardens 1909