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 are you and helpless am I; You shrink from a plunge in the water; Alas, poor me!

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Emerson, Nathaniel Bright

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

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

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

From The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Rohmer, Sax