Melissa, standing among the sycamores below, had seen it all as a sudden, Paralyzing vision.
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham
It was not much of a place, being at most about three hundred acres, with a small, untenanted house on it-and property went for a song, anyhow, in that part of the world-but, nevertheless, the news was Paralyzing to General and Mrs. Temple.
"Throckmorton"
Molly Elliot Seawell
Morgan had turned and walked around behind his desk, and as Boone added his Paralyzing announcement, he threw open the drawer.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck