stone-still

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1. As still as a stone; perfectly still or silent; motionless

   She lay stone-still in a trance of terror.

   1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

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   Alas, what need you be so boisterous-rough? / I will not struggle, I will stand stone-still. / For heaven sake, Hubert, let me not be bound!

   written 1594-96, William Shakespeare, King John

   She lay / Stone-still, and the long darkness flow’d away / With muffled pulses.

   1862, George Meredith, Modern Love (sonnet I)

   Sekander stared out of the window with a stone-still face.

   2011, Suraya Sadeed, Damien Lewis, Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse

   She remained stone-still, ready for anything, sending her heightened senses in search of who or what was encroaching on her personal space.

   2015, Sara Humphreys, Vampires Never Cry Wolf

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1. In a stone-still manner

   Around 6:00 A.M., after an entire night of abuse, the omega walked to the ridge and stood stone-still.

   2011, Jean Craighead George, How to Talk to Your Animals