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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Moveless

Moveless as a worm beneath a stone
Which some one’s stumbling foot has spurned aside.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Moveless, as a long-forgotten lyre
Suspended in the solitary dome
Of some mysterious and deserted fane.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley