Take this: 'Regret very much unable to accept your kind invitation'- which might mean anything, from a previous engagement to total paralysis." "Torchy, Private Sec." by Sewell Ford

For, as the paralysis began to lock his body fast in its vise, the awful thought had for the first time come to him: " When my children know what I have done they will hate me! "The Second Generation" by David Graham Phillips

She has lived abroad for many years and is now very feeble, helpless, in fact, from paralysis or something of that nature. "Dorothy on a Ranch" by Evelyn Raymond