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• “The Buck will look around and go back to feeding and its tail will remain motionless until it starts to look up again.”

  The Best Camo for Hunting Away from Home

• “You would then be instructed to remain motionless for a specified time.”

  Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

• “Remaining motionless is their best defense, but when startled, snowshoes rely on their long, powerful hind legs to run away from danger.”

  How to Hunt Snowshoe Hares

• “When the car's occupants remain motionless, the woman gives an exaggerated shrug before advancing to the quatre-quatre* just behind us.”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “The two sides of the fault remain motionless until the shearing force of the plates 'movement overwhelms the strength of the rock itself.”

  Living on the Fault Line

• “How can we remain motionless when our youth the cream of the population are calling for land?”

  A Habitant Looks Over Canada

• “As he spoke, he pressed her cold hand to his lips with such convulsive sobs that the soldier, fearing he would expire in the agony of his sorrow, took him almost motionless from the dead body, and exhorted him to suppress such self-destroying grief for the sake of his master.”

  The Scottish Chiefs

• “She lay down, and for a long time remained in motionless passive dismay; then nature asserted her rights and she slept.”

  The Old Helmet

• “Of course no camo will work if you cannot remain motionless.”

  One of the first rules for selling a product is to make you item different from everything else.

• “We understand today that this slowing down occurs because of frictional forces between the car and ground and wind resistance between the car and the air, but to the early scientists it seemed eminently reasonable that the natural state of things is to remain motionless.”

  The pre-history of Einstein’s relativity « Skulls in the Stars

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