deathly still
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Alligators generally hug the shores at night, their reptilian bodies hidden beneath the murky surface, often deathly still.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2015
Eastward stretches a no-man’s land where once fertile fields lie desolate and deathly still.
From Time ● Nov. 7, 2014
Thorus remained deathly still as he frantically searched his pocket for the laser gun.
From Nature ● Apr. 2, 2014
He caught his breath, lay deathly still, gasped, sprang up, lit his candle, paced his floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
And she, for a long time, sat deathly still in wonderment—for sometimes as she gazed she found him—yes, clearly—like her husband, but sometimes blood and rags were all she saw.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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