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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Motionless
 
  Motionless as a corpse.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Motionless as a figure cut in stone.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Motionless as a monument.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Motionless, like the sun over Avalon.
            —William Archer		  4
  Motionless as the fixed rock.
            —Edwin Arnold		  5
  Motionless as a babe asleep.
            —Alfred Austin		  6
  Motionless as a tombstone.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  7
  Motionless as a statue.
            —Fernán Caballero		  8
  Motionless, like one who sees but does not understand.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  9
  Motionless as a king’s mummy in a catacomb.
            —Gustave Flaubert		  10
  Motionless, like a woman of wax.
            —Maurice Hewlett		  11
  Motionless, as if thunder-stricken.
            —Victor Hugo		  12
Standing as motionless as pillar set
To guide a wanderer in a pathless waste.
            —Jean Ingelow		  13
            Postured motionless,
Like natural sculpture in cathedral cavern.
            —John Keats		  14
  Stood motionless … like some exquisite chrys-elephantine statue, all ivory and gold.
            —Charles Kingsley		  15
  Motionless as a spectre.
            —Guy de Maupassant		  16
Motionless as the distant purple hills
On which the shadows of the white clouds rest.
            —R. K. Munkittrick		  17
  As motionless as death.
            —Thomas L. Peacock		  18
  Motionless, like a bereaved creature.
            —Charles Reade		  19
  Motionless, as if she were seeking in her mind the explanation of some mystery or the key of some riddle.
            —José Selgas		  20
            Motionless,
As a stone above a grave.
            —William Wetmore Story		  21
  Stood motionless, as if transfixed.
            —Ivan Vazov		  22
  Motionless as a pool.
            —Virgil		  23
  Motionless as an idol.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  24
  Motionless as rocks.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  25
 
 
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