He does not act like those infatuated beasts who lose their head and rush away trembling, in their precipitation paralysing a great part of their resources.
Genera less skilful in the art of paralysing victims.
It has also the habit of paralysing the cockroach by stinging it on the nervous chain.
It is obliged to take so much trouble, because it has not inherited from its ancestors the receipt for the paralysing sting; it throws itself without care on its victim, delivers a few chance blows, and kills it.
And on a sudden he himself felt a fearful, paralysing disgust at the blood in his veins!
Half a dozen of these shells were fired upon the seaward fortifications of Copenhagen in passing, and produced a perfectly paralysing effect.
The awful noise made by the Kuru army agitated and tossed by the foe, paralysing the very welkin, penetrated into the midst of even the Pandava host.
Then, as she told herself that her own and Konrad's happiness depended on her conduct now and during the next hour or two, she felt the old paralysing nervousness which had not troubled her much of late years come over her.
One had a paralysing sensation of expectancy, one’s heart gave heavy beats.
Dyke rode up and down the straggled column talking to the riders one after another; he was very jolly with them, full of fun and good fellowship, but resolutely determined to get to the bottom of the queer paralysing trouble.
Dr Livingstone's experience, we have not the slightest wish to prove its accuracy, shows that the lion has a soothing, or rather paralysing power over his prey, when he has knocked it down or bitten it.
How swiftly, with what incredible, paralysingspeed a scene may change, and seeming security give way to panic fear!
This can be secured to it by no artificial means, nor by any strength in the past; and what is the weakness that has been paralysing her activities for the accomplishment of any great scientific work?
We cannot stay in this indecision which is paralysing our wills and crushing the soul out of us.
It is at this stage that the Reformation supervenes, creating a new source of strife between Canton and Canton, and so paralysing the Confederation for centuries.
It could not succeed; and the rapine inseparable from the French revolutionary methods could not but arouse an intense resistance, paralysing the aims of the progressive party.
He saw, too, that while in the villa she had been the prey of some obscure but almost paralysing fear.
In the midst of her almost paralysing fear a thrill shot through Esther when she heard that Roger was concerned over her disappearance.
Even if the spirit of the poet cannot be said to rise buoyantly above the depressing and paralysing influence of this conviction, yet he draws a higher lesson from it than the maxim of 'Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
The sight of such incredible quantities of the precious metals had so paralysing an effect upon the young Englishman that he could scarcely stammer an enquiry as to where it all came from.
But what a world of paralysing shams this roaring stuff has ended!
But really there is no danger that this intrusion succeeds to the extent of paralysing action and destroying feeling, and uprooting custom.
But this new moral influence upon her had a kind of paralysing effect.
And here comes in the peculiarly paralysing effect of these baser emotions.
The scene, altogether familiar though it was, impressed itself on Richard's mind just now, as one of paralysing melancholy.
Anything, even anger, would be welcome if it dissipated that unnatural, paralysing calm.
Silence fell on the whole room, for sight and words alike were paralysing in their grotesque cruelty.
The pictures projected by his thought, and forming the medium of it, caused him black indignation and revolt, desolated him, too, with a paralysing disgust of his own disabilities.
The horror of it was like a leaden, paralysing weight.
The sudden, paralysing conviction flashed upon her that the palace had been deserted by its guards and was in the hands of murderers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paralysing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
