How long shall sloth usurp thy useless hours, Unnerve thy vigour, and enchain thy pow'rs; While artful shades thy downy couch inclose, And soft solicitation courts repose?

Lincoln's death unnerved the strongest mind, and touched the heart of the nation with undissembled sadness and pity.

But soon the thought of that mad beast unnerved Both Bukka and the minister of the state.

The glowing enthusiasm of Mr. Falkland was such as might well have unnerved the stoutest foe.

Since bonds no longer unnerve the free, And valour hath won fidelity.

Dorothy was in terror lest the discovery he must presently make, should unnerve the husband for what might be required of the doctor.

How Salmacis, with weak enfeebling streams Softens the body, and unnerves the limbs, And what the secret cause, shall here be shown; The cause is secret, but the effect is known.

But the fear of secret assassination has often unnerved the bravest men, and I will not say that it may not disturb me.

A fainting woman, if she is beautiful and fashionably dressed, will unnerve even a resourceful police official.

He who prided himself upon knowing the names of all the guests in Petershof, made the most absurd mistakes about people and letters too; and received in acknowledgment of his stupidity a series of scoldings which would have unnerved a stronger person than the little hunchback postman.

It unnerved Priam, especially when the organist, a handsome youngish man with lustrous eyes, half turned and winked at one of his companions.

Five Irish regiments, the first fruits of the cessation in Ireland, arrived[a] at Mostyn in Flintshire; their reputation, more than their number, unnerved the prowess of their enemies; no force ventured to oppose them in the field; and, as they advanced, every post was abandoned or surrendered.

He was unnerved by his love for Ettaby the sight of Etta before him daringly, audaciously beautifulby the thought that she might never be his.

be gold the tempting bane, "The curse that desolates thy hostile plain; "May pleasure tinge with venom'd drops the bowl, 180 "And luxury unnerve the sick'ning soul.

Do you want me to unnerve the very strength which keeps him alive?" She shuddered.

Also he was beginning to suspect that she did not like him, and it was a disagreeable, unnerving suspicion in his present mood.

" The sight of a person in extremity of terror so mysterious, might have unnerved a ruder system than Lady Walsingham's.

How long shall sloth usurp thy useless hours, Unnerve thy vigour, and enchain thy pow'rs; While artful shades thy downy couch inclose, And soft solicitation courts repose?

They would not stand heavy punishment, and in attacking a fort generally relied upon a single headlong rush, made under cover of darkness or as a surprise; they tried to unnerve their antagonists by the sudden fury of their onslaught and the deafening accompaniment of whoops and yells.

" The darkness, the voice, the shiver of anticipation, unnerved the strong woman.

All were waiting and watching for some nameless calamity, weighed down by that overwhelming, paralyzing dread of the unknown which unnerves the bravest and makes the most powerful utterly powerless.