Suppose they were in the condition of cataleptics, sensible of what passed around them, but paralyzed to the motionlessness and seeming insensibility of death?
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
Nothing stirred, I say; there was an affrighting solemnity of motionlessness everywhere.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
Here, in a third small bed of the truckle type, lay his defaulting wife, her face to the wall, her body composed into an excess of motionlessness.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim