Synonyms for stock-still
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : stok-stil |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈstɒkˈstɪl |
Top 10 synonyms for stock-still Other synonyms for the word stock-still
Définition of stock-still
- adj motionless
- I stood, I know not how long, stock-still in the place where I had read that letter.
- Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
- I stood for a while stock-still, and then went into the living-room, where Maude was sewing.
- Extract from : « A Far Country, Complete » by Winston Churchill
- The colour fell from their faces, and for a second they stood dumb and stock-still.
- Extract from : « Cynthia » by Leonard Merrick
- By and by, they peeped out and saw that King Log was stock-still.
- Extract from : « The Book of Fables and Folk Stories » by Horace E. Scudder
- Shore I'd stood there—stock-still—an' never moved an eye-winker.
- Extract from : « The Man of the Forest » by Zane Grey
- As soon as he landed, he sat down, stock-still, and checked the instrument case he held in his hands.
- Extract from : « Anything You Can Do ... » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- The stock-still brick faade of an old church, against which the waves of people lurch and withdraw.
- Extract from : « A History of American Literature » by Percy H. Boynton
- All around me the black fir-points stood upright and stock-still.
- Extract from : « The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition » by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The sergeant slapped his thigh and was turning for congratulations, but suddenly paused, stock-still and staring upward.
- Extract from : « Fort Amity » by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
- That poor gobbler just stood there, stock-still, on that sheet of bark and did not dare step off it.
- Extract from : « A Busy Year at the Old Squire's » by Charles Asbury Stephens
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