paralyzed

• The lame cast aside their crutches, the blind regain their sight, the paralyzed are alert and nimble, the trampers of every species jig in turn, or altogether, shaking their rags unto the jocund tune; and where is there a blither party? —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• When I told him that a candidate for a governmental office never obtained it until he passed one of three very difficult literary examinations in our nine classics, and that there were thousands competing for the office, he was "paralyzed"--that is, he said he was, and volunteered the information that "he would not be 'in it' in China." —  As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home
• Stricken, paralyzed, they fell back before such courage--and Conway found himself backing off into the woods, covering the retreat of the prisoner. —  The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
• The soul, when freed from the body, floats gently upward, deaf_, dumb_, and blind_--paralyzed, as it were, into a state of neutral existence. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• Her industry is paralyzed, her commerce gone. —  Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers

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