The nations stand round paralysed with disgust and despair, almost unable to articulate; and when they do find voice it is with the words above written.

Bowers has come through best, all things considered, and I believe he is the hardest traveller that ever undertook a Polar journey, as well as one of the most undaunted; more by hint than direct statement I gather his value to the party, his untiring energy and the astonishing physique which enables him to continue to work under conditions which are absolutely paralysing to others.

Paralysed in the limbs, he wheels round, roaring and biting at everything within his reach.

If he delayed by ever so little, it was an agony; yet when he did pipe up, his feeble strain struck to my heart cold and paralysing like a dagger.

And I do believe if he'd been paralysed on both sides instead of only all down his right side, and speechless too, he'd ha' made me understand as I must come here at two o'clock.

Shot through the spine and paralysed below the waist his life was only a question of months.

The only question is whether Mr. Barker has made us feel that a man of Trebell's character would certainly not survive the paralysing of his energies; and that question every spectator must answer for himself.

He had never risen from his chairperhaps he had been too paralysed by fearand he still sat with his back to the door.

Slowly she turned her head to him, paralysed for a moment, it seemed to me, with fear that it was not he.