stationary

• The surface of the pit is not stationary, at one time being, as then, sunk 200 feet; another time flush with the brim and threatening destruction; and again almost disappearing out of sight. —  Ranching, Sport and Travel
• This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter cannot well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals His writing and printing from time to time gave great advantage to his enemies; unguarded expressions, and even erroneous opinions, delivered in preaching, might have been afterwards explain'd or qualifi'd by supposing others that might have accompani'd them, or they might have been deny'd; but litera scripta manet_. —  Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• For some seconds it remained stationary, and then, with a gliding motion, left the path and vanished in the shadows Again a breeze rustled through the tops of the pine trees, moaned through their long and gloomy aisles, and reverberated like thunder; rat-tat, tat, rat-tat, tat--and with this sound beating in my ears, reaction set in, and I never ceased running till I had reached my hotel CASE IX THE ROOM BEYOND. —  Scottish Ghost Stories
• For about eight days it remains stationary, and then begins to fall imperceptibly. —  History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
• He travels in the East; he travels in the West; although his body is stationary, his body is here. —  The Promulgation of Universal Peace

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