palsying

I shall now enter in medias res, and shall anticipate, from a time when my opium pains might be said to be at their acme, an account of their palsying effects on the intellectual faculties.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003

The lightness of heart which had dressed them in masquerade habits, had decorated their tents, and assembled them in fantastic groups, appeared a sin against, and a provocative to, the awful destiny that had laid its palsying hand upon hope and life.

The Last Man 2003

And Time's palsying grip had sapped but little of the strength from his viselike hands - now wrinkled and corded - and his supple sinews and massive thews.

Conan Of The Isles De Camp, L. Sprague 1968

I shall now enter "_in medias res_" and shall anticipate, from a time when my opium pains might be said to be at their _acme_, an account of their palsying effects on the intellectual faculties.

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

What is there in our highly civilized life that escapes the palsying touch of Fashion?

Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. George Sumner Weaver

If we seek to ward off the force of their example by arguing that they gave too much, or by referring at once to professedly good men who have given far less, we may reasonably conclude that covetousness is still grasping and palsying our christian sympathies.

The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character Sereno D. Clark

He exempts no man from danger that uses it; and is always secure of prostrating the most vigorous frame, of clouding the most splendid intellect, of benumbing the most delicate moral feelings, of palsying the most eloquent tongue, of teaching those on whose lips listening senates hung, to mutter and babble with the drunkard, and of entombing the most brilliant talents and hopes of youth, wherever man can be induced to drink.

Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society

Una, bringing home the palsying weariness of the day's drudgery, would find a cheery welcome -- and the work not done; no vegetables for dinner, no fresh boric-acid solution prepared for washing her stinging eyes.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

The old man had tasked all the energies of the patriot, not less than of the stoic, and having once determined upon the necessity of the sacrifice, he had no hesitating fears or scruples palsying his determination.

Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools 1910

Old age was pressing inexorably upon him, palsying his hands on its rack, tripping his feet in its helpless mazes.

A Certain Rich Man William Allen White 1906