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Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary
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palsy
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Definition:Paralysis, complete or partial.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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He could not speak. His jaw was palsied, and all he could say to Constant was, "Putt putt—putt putt putt."
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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Whitney was shaking all over, as if with a palsy.
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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"[...] Their eyes are deep-sunk in their heads, and the only part o’ them that doesna shake wi’ palsy is their—”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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A pause—in which I began to steady the palsy of my nerves, and to feel that the Rubicon was passed; and that the trial, no longer to be shirked, must be firmly sustained.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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pitiful tremor that palsied me
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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Why, you but send three drops of your elixir,
You help him straight: there you have made a friend.
Another has the palsy or the dropsy,
He takes of your incombustible stuff,
He's young again: there you have made a friend,
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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