Tobacco mayparalyze the brain sufficiently to cause nocturnal wakefulness; but it cannot impair one's self-control or one's sense of responsibility.
The ultimate effect was to paralyze the organization of this vital department; to cause delay and confusion in furnishing and forwarding supplies, and to retard and embarrass the operations of the different armies throughout the year.
Now was the time to strike a blow to paralyze all hostility from this quarter; now, while Carleton's regular force was weak, and before the arrival of additional troops.
No matter what you say, it is plain that such a measure would paralyze commerce; and cut off all exports.
Would it not be madness in them to admit such doctrines, and to act in a way which would drain the source of wages, and paralyze the activity and stimulus of saving?
And why does not the fertility of one department paralyze the agriculture of a neighboring and less favored one?
There is this good thing about the arrow, that it has not weight enough to break bones, nor tearing power enough to necessarily paralyze muscle.
This atrocious idea had occurred to him the instant he heard the charging yell of the Apaches; and it had done far more than any weakness of nerves to paralyze his fighting ability.
The members of the society are the depositories of many secrets, tricks, and medical preparations, by which they are enabled to paralyze the body as well as affect the mind of their victim.
I was taken perfectly aback, as I imagined myself almost free, yet the loss of liberty did not paralyze me as much as the perfidy of my men.
One terrific roar that would paralyze the poor creature ahead of him into momentary inaction, and a simultaneous charge of lightning-like rapidity and Numa, the lion, would feed.
Not only does their domination paralyze instead of animating the State, but, with their own hands, they undermine the order they themselves have established.
Having thus paralyzed the lesser organs of supply and demand the Jacobins now have only to paralyzelabor itself, the skilled hands, the active and vigorous arms.
The first effect of alcohol, as we have already described on page 144, is to paralyze the nerves that lead to the extreme and minute blood vessels, and so regulate the passage of the blood through the capillary system.
Thus a derangement in one half of the brain may paralyze the opposite half of the body.
At the best, they paralyze the nerve centers, disorder the digestion, and poison the blood.
Strike at their vitals, then you will paralyze their extremities.
Therefore it is also possible for me to convey my opponent's spirit into the image by my will and then to deform or paralyze it at pleasure.
He couldparalyze her, give her tetanos, with the dilated pupils, the complete insensibility, and in short, all the unmistakeable symptoms of complete catalepsy.
I would like to have shown them this, to see if for one moment it had power to paralyze those eager hands outstretched for bubbles.
And whether the hot noonday sun or the swift lightning-stroke shall paralyze it, that soft touch, through the slow-coming years, shall be her talisman.
But he should consider himself well on the road to guilt when, being aware that the fumes of liquor were fast beclouding his mind, he took another glass that was certain to still further obscure his reason and paralyze his will.
It may paralyze our faculties and rob us of our senses.
Pa is a Democrat, and he thinks that anything that will make it unpleasant for Republican office holders, is legitimate, and he encouraged me to paralyze the letter-carrier.
A proper regard to our true interests will lead us to consider henceforth other means of supplying our wants, since our present mode will ultimately paralyze our resources and be attended with baneful consequences.
In the course of the serious debates that took place in the British parliament in May, 1788, it was said that a decree abolishing the traffic would in a short time paralyze the commerce carried on by British merchants with Africa.
Secondly it was impossible, because to paralyze the momentum with which Napoleon's army was retiring, incomparably greater forces than the Russians possessed would have been required.
Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.
A crushing blow dealt against them would restore French prestige, paralyze English intrigue, save the Illinois from destruction, and confirm the wavering allies of Canada.
He knew too well the temper of the king, whose constant policy it was to destroy or paralyze every institution or custom that stood in the way of his autocracy.
The whole extent of Louisiana is to be cut up into independent States, to counterbalance and to paralyze whatever there is of influence in other quarters of the Union.
Did they hold back, did they attempt to paralyze the proceedings of their Government in resenting this conduct and retrieving its wounded honor and dignity?
What then but madness can dictate a policy tending to dry up our resources and paralyze our energies.
Thus can the hope of peace paralyze a great general's activity.
Because of the failure to paralyze Spain by a single blow, Napoleon had, for the first time in his history, returned after a "successful" campaign without an enormous war indemnity.
This was just enough to paralyze effort, and not enough to permit a man to expand in any direction.
They were not in hand to use, and they also helped to paralyze effort--like black clouds of an impending shower that may pass around, but meantime keeps the watcher indoors.
It seemed to Philip that this clear perception would paralyze his efforts for one side if he knew it was the wrong side.
It was now correctly surmised that on the approach of an invading army the dread of negro insurrection, with all its nameless horrors, would paralyze the arm of the state militia.
To capture this village would give Burgoyne the warlike material he wanted, while at the same time it would paralyze the movements of Lincoln, and perhaps dispel the ominous cloud that was gathering over the rear of the British army.
Its devilish power to paralyze and still the soul of him was gone.
The shock of the ice-cold water itself, even had there been no ice, was enough toparalyze a man.
Would the cold so paralyzehim as to render him helpless?
With no equipment at all, I found out how to detect the stuff before it was strong enough to paralyze us.
He gripped his club desperately, wholly aware that a star creature should be able to paralyze him with the terror beam.
If they guess we got a car," he observed, "they'll expect us to run into a road block beam that would wreck the car and paralyze us.
If the beam could paralyze a pilot in mid-air, it could be aimed at fugitives on the ground.
A single guard outside, able to paralyze them by whatever means it was accomplished, made any idea of escape in daylight foolish.
Its presentiment of the slumber which will shortly seize upon it, paralyze its forces, and surrender it helplessly to all its enemies, incites it to the sudden display of a novel activity.
The spider is so nervous, that the fear which makes it an artist can also paralyze and utterly confound it.
