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For an instant I thought I must be hit, then I saw that the bullet had cut off cleanly the horn of my saddle within two inches of my stomach! Surprise paralyzed us for the fraction of a second. Then we charged the rock pile from which the shot had come. We found there Old Man Hooper seated in a pool of his own blood. He had been shot through the body and was dead.
The water came down with the speed of a locomotive. The people there are absolutely paralyzed so much so that they speak of their losses in a most indifferent way. I heard two men in conversation. One said: 'Well, I lost a wife and three children. 'That's nothing, said the other; 'I lost a wife and six children." The Sudden Break.
"With every kind wish for you and Nelly, in which your aunt, who is still much indisposed, unites, "I remain your affectionate uncle, Little did any of the parties concerned then suppose that in less than three months the hand that penned this letter would be paralyzed by death; and that the Will, so lately written by that hand, would so soon call for executors.
We both had a nightmare in those hours of horror; but it is time for us to awake; we cannot remain paralyzed with fear like children. You have only one course open to you, and that I have already pointed out." "But, abbe, it is the one which I hold the most impossible of all. I have sworn by everything that is most sacred in the universe and the human heart."
Brant endeavored to speak, but the words would not come; his brain seemed paralyzed. Hampton held himself under better control. "I have confidence, Lieutenant Brant, in your honesty," he began, gravely, "and I believe you will strive to do whatever is best for her, if anything should happen to me out yonder.
Hole-in-the-day lay down by the side of his host, so motionless you would have thought that sleep had paralyzed his limbs and senses; his regular breathing intimates a heart at peace with himself and his foes; but that heart was beating fast, for in a moment he raises himself cautiously, gazes and smiles too upon the sleeping Dahcotah beside him.
Of course, in your study you will read at leisure these speeches, and if in them you discover any sense of obligation to the Soldier element, you will be luckier than I, a listener. From 1861 to 1865 the Supreme Court was absolutely paralyzed; their decrees and writs were treated with contempt south of the Potomac and Ohio; they could not summon a witness or send a Deputy Marshal.
And it would have paralyzed forever any ordinary woman to have married Howard Spence." A new method of wooing, surely, and evidently peculiar to Trixton Brent. Honora, in the prey of emotions which he had aroused in spite of her, needless to say did not, at that moment, perceive the humour in it. His words gave her food for thought for many months afterwards.
During the time of the League under Henri III he made to the Duc de Guise the celebrated answer which covered him with glory and paralyzed the strength of the malcontents: "My soul belongs to my God and my heart to my King, although my body is in the power of rebels." He was imprisoned for a time by the chiefs of the League, after which he returned to the service of the King.
It speedily became evident, however, that all talk of compromise on the part of the Southern leaders was deceptive that they were relentlessly pursuing the course marked out from the first, hoping, undoubtedly, that the government would be paralyzed by their allies at the North, and that their purposes would be effected by negotiation and foreign intervention.
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