palsied hands. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Loi entered, bowing and walking with palsied step. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
He rested his palsied hand upon the rail and saluted. From Wordnik.com. [Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.] Reference
The tongue is loosed whose utterance fear has palsied, and. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Whatever part the whip has touched is thenceforth palsied. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
We wonder that the hand that wrote the lie was not palsied. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments] Reference
The great anaconda of secession was palsied and made to fade!. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
Young Tiny Tim's palsied hand lifting a spoon to his rosebud mouth. From Wordnik.com. [‘Love It or Leave It’] Reference
"It's all here," he cried, holding up the volume with palsied hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
Would not such as these be only plucked-out eyes and palsied hands?. From Wordnik.com. [Bahíyyih Khánum] Reference
"I am a little lame," replied Bill, looking down at his palsied arm. From Wordnik.com. [Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.] Reference
With faltering step crept "Trapbois" by, with drooping palsied head. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 Title] Reference
Mr. Strumley let the letter slip unnoticed through his palsied fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
I was palsied with doubt, and the golden moments were fleeting, were fleeting. From Wordnik.com. [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference
And everywhere, let palsied souls be delivered, and attain to glorious freedom!. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
He felt all his hopes numbed and palsied in the face of this omnipotent despair. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
Trafford uttered a groan of despair, and stood, for an instant, like one palsied. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
Rather let the arm of Israel be palsied than to fail when the Kingdom is in sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
I could rest as often as I needed, but the cold water palsied me, and I feared cramp. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
The weakness and divisions of Christendom invited their approach and palsied resistance. From Wordnik.com. [Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm] Reference
It is also believed that "poor palsied folk crept through in the expectation of being healed.". From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
The hands that I held were warm and trembling, though my own were cold and leaden as my palsied tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
If the muscles on one side of the face become palsied, those on the other side will draw the mouth that way. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
He bade the palsied man walk, that they might know that "the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins.". From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
League will be utterly palsied, had it a hundred times its present funds -- a thousand times its present members!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
As much as a bow and arrow in the hands of him whose eyes have departed, or a spear in the grasp of a palsied man. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
He sat, warmed by the afternoon sun, tightly clutching his shoebox, palsied hands drumming rhythmically on its lid. From Wordnik.com. [Luther Loves Lucy] Reference
Have you no companions early palsied, withered, and scathed by alcoholic fires, treading now on the verge of the drunkard's grave?. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
He knew that if he rose his knees would buckle under him; that if he drew out his revolver it would slip from his palsied fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
He was decrepit, yet spiteful; a hoary, old, tottering, palsied villain, hurling curses at all who ventured into his evil presence. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
Leider yelled, and at that moment took his eyes off me, while he reached with a rage-palsied hand for the twinkling line of buttons. From Wordnik.com. [The Winged Men of Orcon A Complete Novelette] Reference
If the membranes of the brain be the seat of the disease, the pain is more intense, and frequently the limbs are in a palsied state. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time] Reference
I shall never forget the spell that came over me as she raised her palsied arm and showed me where she had lived a hundred years ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheep Eaters] Reference
Then he straightened his shoulders anew, and flexed the sinews of his knees, and pressed the palsied hand against the breeches 'seam. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Gail took the proffered coin, added a shining dollar to it, and stepping to the door where the palsied beggar stood mumbling and whining. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Lady] Reference
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