So, I say, I couldn't but tremble at the vision of those golden-haired goddesses, standing with
immobile faces by their awful altars.
Thomson was standing before the window, the cold spring light falling full upon his face, with its nervous lines and strongly-cut,
immobile features.
Cronshaw was lying on his back
immobile; he looked very odd in his nightshirt; and his baldness was disconcerting.
Kutuzov's face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly
immobile for a few moments.
It was a man's face she saw, a face of steel, tense and
immobile; a mouth of steel, the lips like the jaws of a trap; eyes of steel, dilated, intent, and the light in them and the glitter were the light and glitter of steel.
The feeling was dispelled by a slight movement of the group: the horse, without moving its feet, had drawn its body slightly backward from the verge; the man remained
immobile as before.
In brief, it was the general feeling in all that region that Silas Deemer was the one
immobile verity of Hillbrook, and that his translation in space would precipitate some dismal public ill or strenuous calamity.
From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily
immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.
His expression was so severe, so serene, so
immobile, that it seemed obvious that for him at least there was a grandeur in the departing hour which no petty irritation on his part was to mar, although the wasting time wasted also high private hopes of his own.
Next, in lieu of his enemy, he saw Skipper's head, and crept to it and loved it, kissing with his tongue the hard cheeks, the closed lids of the eyes that his love could not open, the
immobile lips that would not utter one of the love-words they had been used to utter to the little dog.
Minnie Duncan started, then glanced at her husband's
immobile face, took the cue, and remained silent.
She stands
immobile with a look of unutterable sorrow on her face.]