palsied

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Palsied would be my arm should I try to plough the furrow in another land, and my eyes would not serve me in a strange world.

From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Zweig, Stefan

Palsied by a strange terror, they were staring at the onrushing horde and the shrieking wolf-man.

From The Golden Snare by Curwood, James Oliver

Palsied, our cunning hands; Rotten, our gold; Our argosies reel and stagger Over empty seas; All the long aisles Of Thy Great Temples, God, Stink with the entrails Of our souls.

From Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)

Sorrow has crazed my wits; long cramped by fetters My arm sinks powerless; and my wasted limbs, Palsied by dungeon-damps, would bend and totter Beneath yon armour's weight, once borne so lightly!

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

Palsied with fear of what might be within, he sat, watched, and grew pale.

From The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Rohmer, Sax