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Fear, suspicion, distrust, anger, envy and callousness paralyse its being and destroy its action, love, courage, patience, sweetness, generosity and sympathy are actual life-forces to it and to the body it inhabits. All the influences of the social world work AGAINST it all the influences of the natural world work WITH it.
"He I think he is better." Whereon she stumbled out of the room into her own little room across the hall, locking the door behind her, and leaving the interne to hunt the symptom record for himself a thing not to be lightly overlooked; though of course internes are not the Staff. The interne looked over the record and whistled. "Wouldn't that paralyse you!" he said under his breath.
He took up a fruit salad, poised it for a moment, then decanted it over Mr. Gossett's bald head. The child's happy laughter rang over the restaurant. Whatever anybody else might think of the affair, this child liked it and was prepared to go on record to that effect. Epic events have a stunning quality. They paralyse the faculties. For a moment there was a pause. The world stood still. Mr.
"Boy!" she called calmly, though the room swam round her and a deadly faintness began to paralyse her limbs and loosen her hold upon the shelf "Boy! Come here." Antonio Ferdinand Xavier D'Souza, Goanese butler, heard and came. "Mem-Sahib?" quoth he, at the door of the go-down. "Bring a lamp quickly," said Lenore de Warrenne in a level voice.
The other reckons to paralyse our cut. So far these folks have failed against the fire-guard organisation, and I guess they'll likely miss most of their fire-bugs when they call the roll. The other's different." Bull knocked out his pipe on the stove and gazed thoughtfully at the streak of brilliant light under the edge of the front damper.
In tracing the vigilant resolution with which she plays upon human weakness, the spasms of compunction which shoot across her wily designs, the selfish afterthoughts which paralyse her generous impulses, her fits of dare-devil courage and uncontrollable panic, and the steady current of good-humoured satisfaction with herself which makes her chuckle equally over mishaps and successes, Defoe has gone much more deeply into the springs of action, and sketched a much richer page in the natural history of his species than in Robinson Crusoe.
Bend lower!" he snapped and swung the sledge. It seemed to go black for a moment before Jimmie Dale's eyes, seemed to paralyse all action of mind and body. There was a low cry that was more a moan, the clang of the iron bar clattering on the floor, and Mike Hagan had pitched forward on his face, an inert and huddled heap.
Here, in the centre of Germany, he could paralyse the nerves of the imperial power, which, without the aid of the League, must soon fall here, in the neighbourhood of France, he could watch the movements of a suspicious ally; and however important to his secret views it was to cultivate the friendship of the Roman Catholic electors, he saw the necessity of making himself first of all master of their fate, in order to establish, by his magnanimous forbearance, a claim to their gratitude.
"Find them by all means," said Brett earnestly, "but on no account arrest them." "And why, monsieur?" cried the other, with elevated eyebrows. "Because if you do you will paralyse our future actions. When all is said and done, the only charge you can bring against them is a trivial one.
The risk of having to fight on two sides, and the still more dangerous position of having no line of retreat left open, paralyse the movements and the power of resistance; further, in case of defeat, they increase the loss, often raising it to its extreme point, that is, to destruction. Therefore, the rear being endangered makes defeat more probable, and, at the same time, more decisive.
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