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motionless (adj.)

Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;

Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,

Frozen by distance.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Address to Kilchurn Castle.

Motionless torrents! silent cataracts!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.