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Example sentences for "palsied"

Lexicographically close words:
palpitation; palpitations; palps; palpus; pals; palsies; palsy; palter; paltering; paltry
  1. The old man raised a hand that was palsied with rage and his voice shook.

  2. But he shook with so palsied a fury that for a time he could only surrender to his physical weakness.

  3. Truly, I thought that I was palsied for life.

  4. I do verily believe that my wrist, and eke my arm, are palsied by the jar of the blow that this stranger struck me.

  5. So spake one unto me afterwards, describing the manner of Jesus, how he forgave the palsied man.

  6. He ventured into the secret chamber, that too was vacant; nothing remained but the couch on which the noble veteran had stretched his palsied frame, and, magnanimously enduring his own anguish, descanted on the arduous duties of a soldier.

  7. The event of the fatal battle of Naseby, which palsied all the King's efforts to preserve the constitution, and ended all the hopes of his friends, would have made Dr.

  8. In her surprise and haste to reach the door, the bent and palsied Delmia let the crutch slip from her hand, and as she fell heavily after it, and lay struggling to regain her feet again, she looked like some distorted creature of fancy.

  9. But Joe Stacy, his own brother, permitted his shrewd eyes to twinkle as he laid a calming hand on the anger-palsied shoulder of the new arrival.

  10. He came back, palsied and shaken, and as he bent over the girl and cut away her bonds, his voice struggled through dry sobs.

  11. If slavery has so palsied his mind that he looks upon himself as a chattel, and consents to be one, actually to hold him as such, falls in with his delusion, and confirms the impious falsehood.

  12. If slavery has so palsied his mind and he looks upon himself as a chattel, and consents to be one, actually to hold him as such, falls in with his delusion, and confirms the impious falsehood.

  13. Once more my bursting chains were reunited, Once more barbarian plaudits wildly rung O'er the last promise of deliverance blighted, The prostrate purpose and the palsied tongue: Ah!

  14. For news had come to the lonely farm That three were lying where two had lain; And the old man's tremulous, palsied arm Could never lean on a son's again.

  15. They believed that he could cure the palsied man, and were ready to take any trouble to bring him before the Saviour.

  16. In an instant a new life came to the palsied man.

  17. They were bound, however, in some way to get this palsied man to Jesus.

  18. A great crowd had gathered round him, so that the friends of the palsied man could not get near him with the bed on which the sufferer lay.

  19. And so Jesus performed the miracle of healing the palsied man and the lepers in order to teach his disciples the great lesson that he "had power on earth to forgive sins.

  20. Illustration: "With a palsied arm he motioned to O'Brien, who stepped before him.

  21. With a palsied arm he motioned to O'Brien, who stepped before him and spoke rapidly for several moments in the guttural jargon he had used on the river.

  22. Now, the sternest dogmas that ever came from a soul cramped or palsied by an obsolete creed become wonderfully softened in passing between the lips of a mother.

  23. Shall priesthood's palsied arm protect The wrong our human hearts reject, And smite the lips whose shuddering cry Proclaims a cruel creed a lie?

  24. By strangulation," said the old gipsy, raising her palsied hand to her throat.

  25. At this juncture, a person without his hat, breathless with haste and almost palsied with fright, rushed through the midst of them and, stumbling over the threshold, fell headlong into the church.

  26. Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees; and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.

  27. Rather than permit this, let the Church lift up their drooping hands and sustain their palsied knees, that they may be healed of their lameness.

  28. He was greatly surprised to see his palsied arm move vigorously.

  29. He showed flaccid paralysis of left arm and leg, together with anesthesia, analgesia and thermanesthesia over the whole left side of the head, extreme general atrophy of muscles, somewhat more marked on the palsied side.

  30. Or that the thrill of a single kiss Hath palsied many years-- 'Tis not that the flowers of twenty springs Which have wither'd as they rose Lie dead on my heart-strings With the weight of an age of snows.

  31. Ah, it was well for the palsied man and well for themselves that they did not act on such miserable reasoning as this.

  32. Where the worth to thine impotent heart, of that stirred Bethesda, All numbed and palsied as it is, by the scorpion stings of sin?


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palsied" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    allergic; anemic; arthritic; aspen; bilious; colicky; consumptive; crabbed; debilitated; decrepit; diabetic; doddering; dyspeptic; epileptic; feeble; fossilized; infirm; leprous; malarial; malignant; measly; palsied; paralytic; pocky; quaking; quavering; quivering; rheumatic; rickety; rusty; senile; shaking; shaky; shivering; shivery; shriveled; shuddering; syphilitic; timeworn; tottering; tottery; trembling; tremulous; tubercular; vibrating; weak; withered; wizened; wobbly