stock-still
Example Sentences
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Stock-still at their desks, novelists face a similar demand for a perfectly choreographed last move.
From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2019
Stock-still on her wooden box, Clara could not keep from watching until the very end.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Hanging there by the half-door, Dangling his devil’s foot, Stock-still on the threshold, As if he had taken root!
From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh
Stock-still he stood for a couple of minutes watching the yellow glimmer among the tombstones, and then, with grim suspicion in his mind, he walked up to the churchyard gate.
From Stories of the Border Marches by Lang, Jeanie
"Stock-still" they stood under the beating rain, their hearts throbbing harder than the drops.
From Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's by May, Sophie
