stock-still

You had to memorize something and stand stock still with your hands behind your voice and just boom out in front of 500 people.

And as the witness began to openly weep, his sobs filled the stock-still courtroom.

But when he took his place to address the jury on this day he began by standing stock-still and speaking in a low, serious tone.

They sat stock-still on the hardwood benches of the dank, makeshift cinema in Monrovia.

But Mafuta, instead of taking this advice, suddenly stood stock still, as if he had been petrified!

It seemed as though a shiver ran through Kari's body, and he stopped stock still.

Neither the intellectual nor the moral character of any person stands stock-still: a man improves, or he declines.

He stood stock-still at one end while the fellows nearest him thrashed him unmercifully with the heavy knots.

The three men stood stock still, and gazed like owls solemnly into the dark.