stockstill

Elis had seen her shimmering pallor take the light, and stood stockstill, gazing through the archway with eyes rounded and fixed, and mouth open.

A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

The bishops heard it, and recoiled from their robing-room threshold to stand stockstill for a moment, ears stretched, before bearing down in haste upon the south door.

A River So Long 2010

Then a shepherd drove a flock through the underwood: a brown cow with short, pointed horns broke noisily through the bushes and stood stockstill at the edge of the clearing, her big, dark eyes fixed on the dog running before me.

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

I stood stockstill in the same place and did not know whether to laugh, to say something, or to be silent.

First Love 2006

Fustov stood stockstill before my bed, his hands hanging, like a guilty man.

The Jew and other stories 2006

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

The image of Raymond, his eyes open and unseeing, lying stockstill on EttaMae's front lawn, was still in my mind.

Excerpt: Bad Boy Brawly Brown by Walter Mosley 2002

Gabriel stood stockstill for a moment in astonishment and then followed her.

Dubliners 2003

Richard might have been made of stone: he lay stockstill, unmoved, staring with glassy eyes into the moonlight.

Ultima Thule 2003

Confound the thing! it had slipped the leash and was gone again: grope as he might, standing stockstill the while in the middle of the path and glaring seawards, he could not recapture it.

Ultima Thule 2003