Paralyzed

Examples

• Miss Ophelia stood silent, perfectly paralyzed with amazement. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Poland was not simply a crowned aristocratic republic like the British, it was a paralyzed crowned aristocratic republic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• H e himself wished to be enrolled in the National Guard, a nd had to be told that a half-paralyzed man co uld not render military service. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• There is only this difference: most of the manufacturers seem paralyzed when they are attacked. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• When this sparring partner came to face Corbett in the imitation ring he was so paralyzed with terror he could hardly move. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He may have been asleep, or he may have been so paralyzed with terror as to have been unable to cry out. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The extent to which all manufacture and transport, all industry there, was paralyzed during the strike, shows the complete dependence of modern life upon fuel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The sight has paralyzed them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Typist: Natalie