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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Motionless

Motionless as a corpse.
—Anonymous

Motionless as a figure cut in stone.
—Anonymous

Motionless as a monument.
—Anonymous

Motionless, like the sun over Avalon.
—William Archer

Motionless as the fixed rock.
—Edwin Arnold

Motionless as a babe asleep.
—Alfred Austin

Motionless as a tombstone.
—R. D. Blackmore

Motionless as a statue.
—Fernán Caballero

Motionless, like one who sees but does not understand.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

Motionless as a king’s mummy in a catacomb.
—Gustave Flaubert

Motionless, like a woman of wax.
—Maurice Hewlett

Motionless, as if thunder-stricken.
—Victor Hugo

Standing as motionless as pillar set
To guide a wanderer in a pathless waste.
—Jean Ingelow

Postured motionless,
Like natural sculpture in cathedral cavern.
—John Keats

Stood motionless … like some exquisite chrys-elephantine statue, all ivory and gold.
—Charles Kingsley

Motionless as a spectre.
—Guy de Maupassant

Motionless as the distant purple hills
On which the shadows of the white clouds rest.
—R. K. Munkittrick

As motionless as death.
—Thomas L. Peacock

Motionless, like a bereaved creature.
—Charles Reade

Motionless, as if she were seeking in her mind the explanation of some mystery or the key of some riddle.
—José Selgas

Motionless,
As a stone above a grave.
—William Wetmore Story

Stood motionless, as if transfixed.
—Ivan Vazov

Motionless as a pool.
—Virgil

Motionless as an idol.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Motionless as rocks.
—John Greenleaf Whittier