He drew his fingers across his forehead and glanced at the men around him, also stunned into inactivity by the tragedy behind the words.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
The spell for inactivity had not yet come.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
For a little while yesterday this mildness, and the sunlight lying over the battlefields, and a strange, rare inactivity of artillery, gave one just for one second of a day-dream a sense that Peace had already come and that the victory had been won.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs