1. the inertia of an object at rest
1. "Ellen was motionless on the sidewalk,"
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Lois Lowry, Number the Stars
2. "She stood motionless like that for"
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Donna Leon, The Waters of Eternal Youth
3. "Some motionless conflict in the sky"
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Donald Revell, Tantivy
4. "A few gray cotton chunks of cloud hung there, motionless."
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Haruki Murakami, The Seventh Man
5. "I kept motionless and tried to think like a tree."
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Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox
6. "We are foolish, comic, motionless, corrupted, yet we are worthy of sympathy too."
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Quote by James Joyce
7. "Nothing could be more heart rending than this mute and motionless dispair"
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Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin
8. "And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light."
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Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of St. Antony
9. "With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor."
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John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
10. "We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in cold."
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Quote by Wallace Stevens