And Death, that spares them both, and old Madam Bradley, too (eighty-eight now and half paralysed for nearly twenty years!
She told us afterward that before the curtain rose she was nearly paralysed with terror and was convinced that her voice had gone--it caught in her throat.
The bitterness of remorse paralysed his thinking faculties.
Sir Percy Blakeney had not gone out fortunately: the lacquey who opened the door to my lord Tony stared astonished and almostparalysed for the moment at the extraordinary appearance of his lordship.
Yvonne murmured, for she felt the last shred of her fictitious courage oozing out of her, in face of this awful lawlessness which literally paralysed her thinking faculties.
This would hold out a prospect of a paralysed universe, and that stage would have been reached long ago if the system had not had a definite beginning.
Within another two hundred years Rome annihilated Carthage, paralysed and overran Greece, and sent its legions over the Asiatic provinces of the older empires.
I know what it is, he has received such a shock to the system that it has paralysed his nerves--that's it!
But there are men who would rather set foot anywhere than in their pulpit--men who out of it are full of fellowship, information, and infective health, but there they are paralysed with the curse of their idle past.
They were singing his songs in every street of his native land, and his fame had gone out through the world, while he lay an exile and paralysed upon his "mattress-grave.
The fiery red of insensate anger burst into flames, filled his throat to choking, set his paralysed muscles free with uncontrollable energy.
Constantinople, and is said to haveparalysed both armies with fear.
At length the doomed inhabitants of the earth, paralysed with terror, would see their relentless enemy shining like a second moon in the northern skies.
After thus instructing the king who, like a pupil, listened to him with devout attention and set a high value on his words, he left his body paralysed in its functions by the excess of his pains, and mounted to Heaven.
While representing to himself that it is not right to repent having given, his heart was burnt by the fire of irremediable grief, and his mind became troubled, as though it were paralysed by torpor occasioned by poison.
The other men come into my power, are paralysed by affliction, and fear robs them of their courage.
Every soul in that camp was paralysed with sadness and suffering.
This for a moment paralysed them; but we heard a chief's voice say, 'These men have run away from Bula Matari.
The pangs of hunger would have paralysed their strength if it had not been kept up and rekindled by faith, for all they had to eat were a few grains of barley cooked in rancid, nauseous mutton-fat.
Petrified at such indifference in the face of danger, the Bedouin was overwhelmed with supernatural emotion which paralysed his heart's action.
When he saw the litter in which reclined this celebrated warrior, paralysedby the infirmities of great age, the youth thought he had captured a woman.
Now that my limbs are paralysed I must renounce for ever the hope of pursuing whales.
He derided the idea of making a true Republic of a population besotted with religion, paralysed by creeds cringing to the agents of their servitude, and clinging to the chains that enthral them.
Then a modest-looking girl, leading an ancient woman with badly inflamed eyelids and paralysed arms, rubbed his eyelids, and then gently stroked the closed eyelids of the crone.
His first move was to cool his throat with handfuls of snow, his second to step over and regard the apparently paralysed Reivers with a look of mingled triumph and contempt.
As emotion had all but paralysed the young girl he forced her to a seat on the sledge and thrust the whip into her hand, then turned to Tillie.
A first stroke of apoplexy at fifty-five years of age had been followed by a second one three years later, which had left him slightly paralysed in the left side.
Later on it was related that a mother had one day brought her paralysed child to the convent for the saint to touch and cure it.
Clad in wretched garments, bareheaded, her face wet with tears, she was holding in her arms a little boy of ten years or so, whose limp, paralysed legs hung down inertly.
She went off on her errand, however, and the two men stood watching her while she made the paralysed woman drink.
Wacousta seemed to watch these preparations with evident anxiety; and to all it appeared as if his courage had been paralysed by this unexpected action.
The slightest encroachment of any other European power even on the outskirts of her American dominions sufficed to disturb her repose and to brace her paralysed nerves.
The fins, paralysedand powerless, are unable for their task.
If the Nationalists, whose influence then paralysed the aims of the Government, ever get supreme control of the Executive, we are certain to see these abuses revived on a still more shocking scale.
Angry with himself for his carelessness, though hardly at the moment seeing how he could have acted differently, he hurried back to the library, entered suddenly, and then stopped, as if paralysed by the pang which shot through him.
The accusation of Clara Kingscott had paralysed him with a morbid terror.
But my hand is paralysed now, and they will never be painted.
Though at first almost paralysed with fear, she had recovered her presence of mind, and had begun to strike out, so as to support herself above water.
The blows had paralysed the serpent; and now, seizing Jose by the shoulders, we dragged him out from between its relaxed folds.
The Indian sat, it seemed to me, paralysed with terror.
Barnett alone was at liberty to move the ladder; and he stood staring up, as if paralysed by the danger and by the thought that the man above him was his rival, for whose sake he had been, only a few hours before, refused.
In this case the terrible shock of the fall on the head seems to have paralysed certain optical nerves.
No one understood better than he the difficulties with which Mr. Gladstone had to contend, or the stresses which paralysed the Cabinet and racked the Liberal party.
The very qualities which endeared him to his friends and family and won him the compliments of his opponents, disheartened, irritated, and paralysed his followers in the House of Commons.
Principle, prejudice, obstinacy, conviction, would each and all together have paralysed him.
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