All 6 Uses of
paralysis
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- He took to drinking, and had a touch of paralysis, and then came here to borrow a pound, as in his better days I had—'†
Chpt 2 *
- Newman fell a little behind his master, and his face was curiously twisted as by a spasm; but whether of paralysis, or grief, or inward laughter, nobody but himself could possibly explain.†
Chpt 3
- The company were quite paralysed by this domestic crash.†
Chpt 15
- 'Gracious!' cried Kate, almost paralysed by the violence with which the adjective had been jerked out from between Miss Knag's closed teeth; 'have I offended you?'†
Chpt 18
- A sight so unusual and unbusiness-like as this, completely paralysed Tim Linkinwater, who, after one or two gentle pinches at the stranger's ankles, which were productive of no effect, stood clapping the tongs together, as if he were sharpening them for another assault, and did nothing else.†
Chpt 49
- Ralph Nickleby and Gride, stunned and paralysed by the awful event which had so suddenly overthrown their schemes (it would not otherwise, perhaps, have made much impression on them), and carried away by the extraordinary energy and precipitation of Nicholas, which bore down all before him, looked on at these proceedings like men in a dream or trance.†
Chpt 54
Definition:
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(paralysis) loss of the ability to move the body or a part of it
or:
inability to act or make a decision