He knew he had spent much of the night and half the morning lying rigid with misery in the bottom of a sailboat.

We lie rigid in bed, waiting for the car alarms to go off.

Reaching down, he shook the figure, only to have it roll over at his touch, lying stiff and rigid.

It took only two minutes of lying stretched and rigid on his bed for Alex Mair to realize that sleep was unlikely to come.

Then I'd lain rigid, like the man under the pendulum, not knowing whether it was dawn or midnight.

So he concentrated all his will-power on suppressing the desire to move, and forced himself to lie rigid under the blankets.

For minutes at a stretch I lie rigid as a stick and breathe the black exhalation of the swamp.

He imagined the others lying rigid, feigning sleep as he did.

He found himself fully alert, lying rigid in bed, listening to the silence.

Sam, lying rigid under his own blanket, heard the bare feet on the floorboards and the creak of Todger's bed.