When that negotiation was under way, Barak of Israel was "immoveable" about demanding to keep a sliver of land that had been Syria. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Arthur Waskow: The Nature of Negotiation] Reference
Until now, Mr. Slim has been an immoveable object. From Wordnik.com. [It's Time to Bust the Telmex Monopoly] Reference
George put one arm round it, and kept it immoveable. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
Ausonia is ablaze, till then unstirred and immoveable. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
But there's just so long you can push an immoveable object. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story: "Intermediary"] Reference
Miss Wilmot and me, and stood at once speechless and immoveable. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicar of Wakefield] Reference
Alfred stood immoveable before him, his whole attention absorbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
The author, petrified at his failure, stood for a moment immoveable. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection] Reference
For many days, George Delmé lay on his couch unconscious and immoveable. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
But I know I was entranced, while my body was immoveable at the Altar, and. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Enemies of True Republicanism] Reference
I raised my hands to heaven, and remained sometime immoveable upon the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
I raised my hands to heaven, and remained some time immoveable upon the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
Aristotle says that it is immoveable, since it must itself precede all motion. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
I clasped my hands in an agony of despair, and stood for some time immoveable. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Forest] Reference
But the tyrant was immoveable, and the young man expired a victim of his sternness. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
Let all the earth be moved at his presence: for he hath founded the world immoveable. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 13: 1 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision] Reference
It is interesting how upright and immoveable the Judges are when faced with terrorists. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Finding Perdita immoveable, we consulted as to the best means of furthering her purpose. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
Old Entellus stands immoveable and astrain, only parrying hits with body and watchful eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Two men were pulling the rope, pressing in the flanks of the immoveable, passive, spangled monster. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
With her head down, she strode to the door, then slammed into a completely immoveable, impossibly hard form. From Wordnik.com. [Wicked Pleasures]
Camilla, who, at first, had been immoveable from consternation, now recovered sufficiently to get back to her room. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
Magazines, journals, and notebooks were stacked fifty and sixty issues high, creating moveable and immoveable walls. From Wordnik.com. [I Beat Myself at Chess (revised)] Reference
And there are shining gates and an immoveable threshold of bronze having unending roots and it is grown of itself 92. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
In this part of the world, immoveable object contends with irresistible force and will do so for many decades to come. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Jenkins: Commentators Are Having a Poor Middle East Conflict] Reference
For as we do direct our faith towards the Son, so also should we possess a firm and immoveable love towards the Father. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
At this frightful spectacle I remained immoveable, and was so much frightened that my bow and arrows fell out of my hand. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights] Reference
He also divided the earth from the water which surrounds it, and fixed it upon the immoveable foundation of His own will. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
When those high-souled ones went from hence that Rakshasa of fierce soul obstructed their nocturnal path even like an immoveable hill. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
It was generally supposed that this latter work had established on an immoveable foundation the genuineness of the shorter form of the. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
As children say entreatingly ‘Give us both,’ so he will include both the moveable and immoveable in his definition of being and all. From Wordnik.com. [The Sophist] Reference
Simply put, the vote conforms to the laws of gravity; Congress came up against an immoveable force --- the president of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Atheists in Foxholes] Reference
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