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  • In the semi-darkness of the room, she lay mo tionless, half sleeping, or dreaming with open eyes.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • When it was right on top of Walker, it stopped and hung mo - tionless above him, cowled head inclining slightly, shadows ob - scuring its features.

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

  • Then she saw it, high in the branches of the trees at one end of the ravine, suspended in a net of its own webbing, mo - tionless in the haze.

    The Elf Queen of Shannara Brooks, Terry 1992

  • Just a moment ago these men had been determined antagonists, and now they were mon tionless, the fierce tension of hand-to-hand combat all at once drained out of them.

    Floating City Lustbader, Eric 1990

  • Only at moments of great serenity is it possible to find the pure, the informa-tionless state of signal zero.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • According to Zeno, temporal inter - vals are adequately symbolized by spatial segments; both are divisible ad infinitum, and to the point-like extremities of linear segments correspond the dura - tionless extremities of temporal intervals — instants.

    TIME MILI�� ��APEK 1968

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