palsied

• Her hand (like a palsied, sinewy chicken claw) reached in and groped at the crumbling foam until she found the envelope with her grocery money Hadley lay awake staring at the ceiling and inhabiting her bone pain. —  Asimov'sSF,August2007
• One step into the room he took and paused--palsied with a sudden fear which exceeded anything he had known A white casement curtain was drawn across the French windows ... and outlined upon this moon-bright screen he saw a tall figure. —  The Golden Scorpion
• Its streets were blocked up with snow--the few passengers seemed palsied, and frozen by the ungenial visitation of winter. —  The Last Man
• Vanheimert feared to miss even at arm's length, so palsied was his hand, so dim his eye; and when he would have played the man and called desperately on the other to surrender, the very tongue clove in his head He slunk over to the shady margin of surrounding scrub and lay aloof all the morning, now fingering the weapon in his pocket, now watching the man who never once looked his way. —  Stingaree
• He understood, and his breath was labored, his flesh palsied--and still he was going to obey. —  The Trail Horde

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