palsied

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Palsied by a feeling akin to terror, yet not unmingled with curiosity, he stood breathless and listening at the threshold, unable to summon resolution to push open the door and enter.

From In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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

From The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Rohmer, Sax

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, 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)

Palsied with terror, Brandan sate; The moon was bright, the iceberg near.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew