The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.
Harry dozed fitfully, sinking into dreams full of clammy, rotted hands and petrified pleading, jerking awake to dwell again on the sound of his mother's voice.
“There's just no point talking to a Petrified person, ” she said, and they had to admit she had a point when they'd taken their seats next to Hermione.
I was so frightened, I was so petrified that my—I started it, but instead of starting with my first line, I started with my seventh or eighth line, and the guy who was supposed to answer me, his eyes went boing!
But as they reached the corner they heard something that made their hearts stop — a high, petrified scream — and it was coming from the chamber they'd just chained up.
She stood looking at him, her head on one side, still smiling, but with a smile that became progressively, in face of the Director's expression of petrified disgust, less and less selfconfident, that wavered and finally went out.