How To Use Palsied In A Sentence
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Something in the sharpened face, too, looked as if more than eyesight had been palsied in these years of utter solitude: the brain was dulled with sluggishly gnawing over and over the few animal ideas they leave for prisoners 'souls, -- or, as probably, thoroughly imbruted by them.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
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The brain that first conceived the thought must burst in anguish, the heart that pulsated with hellish joy must cease to beat, the hand that pulled the first laniard must be palsied, before the wicked act begun in Charleston on the 13th of April, 1861, is avenged.
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865
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I had seen this banal horror before in a much-loved grandfather, dead before his time, a palsied victim of Parkinson's.
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And this, with the Greens' propensity for error that increased in direct proportion to their frustration with their own palsied lack of penetration, was just enough to edge the game.
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ObjectiveTo explore the influence of the hospitalcommunityfamilybased rehabilitation on the gross motor function of cerebral palsied children.
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Just the same, her role is the showy one - a crippled up, palsied, intimidating patient in a care home for the elderly.
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Possibly, at least in theory, I might have struggled my way to write some of my other books, in some palsied form, if Howard were not in my lifebut I certainly could never have written this one without him.
A Conversation with Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig
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Albertson exaggerates the palsied contortions of his figures, imbuing them with a curious pathos.
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Yes, there was a lot of chest and back scratching and thumping, and palsied flinging about of the hands and arms.
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His voice had a tremor in it too, words passing out over palsied lips.
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ObjectiveTo explore the influence of the hospitalcommunityfamilybased rehabilitation on the gross motor function of cerebral palsied children.
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Fortunately, the T stop was deserted while the green line train approached as fast and steady as a palsied dentist.
Doggone
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With rheumy eyes they saw to his needs, with palsied hands filling his glass or striking him on the back between the shoulders when death stirred and he coughed and gasped.
The Wit of Porportuk
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On a branch outside a sparrow flexed its wings and shimmied side to side in a palsied dance.
My Other Mother is a Ferrari
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It's that palsied old woman with the sticks, the spider woman poking along in the shadow of the apse.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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Comedy is forever young and sees the palsied old from without; tragedy does not normally deal with anything so mundane or inescapable as the decay of the mind.
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Away with palsied, powerless preaching which is unmoving because it was born in a tomb instead of a womb and nourished in a fireless, prayer less soul.
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The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers.
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The guileless McKenzie is of course immune, as he blunders through a palsied old world.
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It coursed up his spine and palsied his drawing hand.
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It's a tough assignment, one that could serve as a test case for much-needed reform in South Korea's palsied industrial sector.
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The thought made the old man panicky for the moment, and he stretched forth a palsied hand which wandered tremblingly over the small heap of dry wood beside him.
THE LAW OF LIFE
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John Paul's pain-racked, palsied old body is wheeled about on casters, his voice a shadow of its old, booming self.
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As Helga considered the implications of Jake's aggressively styled hairdo and my middle sister's nubile young body traveling at speed behind the wheel of a moving automobile, her eyebrows did a kind of palsied tremor, eventually settling back into their resting place above her wrinkled gaze.
Bootstraps
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palsied hands
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One of them suffered with rheumatism of the back, and walked about bent like an old man; another, who had been to the front, was palsied in the left arm; and a third kept open an ulcer on the leg, by rubbing in a little antimonial ointment, which I sold him at five dollars a box, and bought at fifty cents.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
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Without the palsied hand of government, the unions would wither and die.
500 SEIU bully-boys vs. 1 14-year-old. | RedState
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His voice had a tremor in it too, words passing out over palsied lips.
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He must have been nearly eighty that spring morning on the cliffs when he signalled with palsied hand for his litter to be rested down that he might gaze upon us whom he had punished for so long.
Chapter 15
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With rheumy eyes they saw to his needs, with palsied hands filling his glass or striking him on the back between the shoulders when death stirred and he coughed and gasped.
The Wit of Porportuk
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They were age-twisted and palsied, faithful to their meat, a generation out of the past that watched unmoved the antics of younger life.
The Wit of Porportuk
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Finally, the captain's son, irritated beyond measure, jerked the book from the palsied fingers of the old man and found the place.
THAT DEAD MEN RISE UP NEVER
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It's that palsied old woman with the sticks, the spider woman poking along in the shadow of the apse.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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Chicagoans are going to succumb to the feminine wiles of that palsied succubus, so you should make sure children could not possibly be the result.
