" I sat for some moments literally paralysed with horror.

There are in literature two conspicuous examples of the blind-alley themetwo famous plays, wherein two heroines are placed in somewhat similar dilemmas, which merely paralyse our sympathies and inhibit our moral judgment.

I sent for a doctor, hurried to her side, and found that she was unable to speak, and that one side of her body was totally paralysed.

At last, however, a youth presented himself who, more courageous or more tipsy than his fellows, or more helplessly paralysed with horror than they, did not decline the proffered caress, and suffered himself to be drawn within the goblin's accursed embrace.

It was indeed terriblethe butchery of lives has indeed been awful; in these sanguinary conflicts between desperate men, pent up in narrow streets, innocent lives have also been taken, for it was next to impossible to distinguish between those who took an active part in the affray, and those who were merely paralysed spectators.

Already the moneylenders sitting on their chests form a veritable nightmare; but with fresh debts by the thousand million sterling being contracted, there is great danger that the mass-peoples beneath will be worse paralysed and broken even than they are nowunless, indeed, with a great effort they rouse themselves and throw off the evil burden.