When Anthony Perkins starts slashing at the curtain, I think my entire body was frozen in petrification.    From Wordnik.com.  [The film that changed my life: Stephen Woolley] Reference

The process in which wood is preserved by permineralization, commonly known as petrification, takes extensive amounts of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Architecture is a petrification of a moment of culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Building Moments] Reference

The tide of petrification had crept to Vardanes 'loins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Wanderer]

Instant petrification or slow and gory torturous death?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on Narnia] Reference

Over their limbs crept a curious rigidity, an unnatural petrification.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]

I am in my prime, after all, and I do not intend to devote my prime to petrification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace, order and good government, eh?: March 2008 Archives] Reference

She may have suffered only partial petrification-and she was not as solid as we to begin with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragon on a Pedestal]

Ashfall leaves tree trunks vertical in strata for subsequent mineralization and petrification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man made global warming? No way!] Reference

Warning: In the event of accidental petrification, consult a sorcerer or deity of your choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference

BETHANY MARSHALL, PSYCHOTHERAPIST: Two signs you look for in children are subtle signs of petrification.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2007] Reference

Alas, he waited too long, overshot the mark, and heard his voice go well beyond evenness into petrification.    From Wordnik.com.  [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference

There was an aura of petrification about the entire chamber, from the farthest chair to the simple tape viewers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Hole]

From some peaks they caught glimpses of other towns that had fallen under the strange spell of the petrification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost on the Moon Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds] Reference

What I uncovered that day from triceratops was not a bone, but rather the petrification of a bone that had once existed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centennial]

Her words will blow open a new dialogue on this all too common situation, one that used to be kept in the petrification of silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce McFadden: If You've Been Raped, Please Consider Reading This] Reference

Taking classy pics through petrification is the way to do it!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

Ranger morphs and Champion petrification should now be back to normal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mac Game Files] Reference

The spell surrounds the Hero and slowly cures him of his petrification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destructoid] Reference

The mistake lies in wishing to escape from it by a petrification of our joys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Days Off And Other Digressions] Reference

Pray are not vegetables sometimes preserved from decomposition by petrification?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference

The very music had an air of incipient petrification, if I can speak so about sounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daisy] Reference

He would be freed, for ever, from the petrification of the grey, cramping little city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rough Road] Reference

I shall accept involution, petrification of the sutures and limitation with good grace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth and Egolatry] Reference

From geology came terms like drift, matrix and embedding, attrition, and petrification.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 2] Reference

I have lately become acquainted with a memoire on a petrification mixed with shells by a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)] Reference

Thia petrification confifU of pretty regular flrata, and appears ta have been greatly prior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopædia britannica;] Reference

That version will include the Oracle Outside In viewer along with the petrification toolkit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Law.com - Newswire] Reference

When she departed, as she did in a state bordering on petrification, he came forward to the bedside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theo A Sprightly Love Story] Reference

Negative advertising most of the way because of psychiatric industry petrification of the mainstream discourse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond Meds] Reference

This is a startling fact for natural philosophers, and must cause them to modify the existing theory of petrification.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference

Everything that appeared on the surface of the times contributed its mite toward the spiritual petrification of the masses.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology] Reference

But with partisanship pushing the Senate toward petrification, some newcomers are seeking fundamental changes in the way the.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

At 35, Beckinsale's also got the maturity to pull off a convincing Lara without giving her an air of ... well, petrification.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPOnG.com] Reference

"That's all very well," said Sir Archibald, "but they ought to have caught you before this petrification set in, and made you a bishop.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rough Road] Reference

It purges us through petrification.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Visit to ‘The Orphanage’] Reference

"The very thing," she said, recovering from petrification, "and I'll.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hot Swamp] Reference