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  • It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • I was shocked by her appearance, her weak condition and the fact that the trolley was vibrating with her trembling.
  • From where he sat he could see the trembling lights of the village jewelling the rim of the bay like a circlet of stars. Flood Tide
  • She sat down to conceal the fact that she was trembling.
  • I sat in the buggy, holding the reins over the trembling, wild-eyed bay, while William descended and, with great dignity, tied up the disabled swingletree. A Circuit Rider's Wife
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  • She was in lather-sweat of fear, and stood trembling pitiably. Jack London's Short Story - Planchette
  • The kiln is stoked initially with wood until the brick kiln is trembling from the heat and the flames. Times, Sunday Times
  • For he took a genuine interest in his pupils; and, in that first year of his teaching, carried his class to surprising lengths, nor let them betray any evidences of unthoroughness when they went trembling up to the examinations provided by the great Anton himself, in the mid-year term. The Genius
  • The bloodhounds, known as the seducer, the libertine, the procurer, are upon her track; she is trembling on the frightful brink of the abyss. Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics
  • Many cliffs are now brightened by the pretty pink flowers of thrift on their trembling stalks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mia was on her side, trying to cough the water out of her lungs, her body trembling.
  • The ruse worked despite his almost uncontrollable trembling. Times, Sunday Times
  • I wasn't breathing; my whole body was tingling and trembling and I felt as though I was shaking when the ground beneath us was still.
  • At about midnight they were suddenly awakened from their sleep by a loud noise and the earth trembling, which caused the whole building to shake about them. The Gods of Asgard
  • See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt.
  • Fleda, my dear," said Mrs. Evelyn, with that trembling tone of concealed ecstasy which always set every one of Fleda's nerves a-jarring — "you may tell the gentlemen that they do not always know when they are making an unfelicitous compliment — I never read what poets say about 'briny drops' and 'salt tears', without imagining the heroine immediately to be something like Lot's wife. Queechy, Volume II
  • Tagore seemed to be a wonderful performer, who can invariably wake up the string of my deep heart and make my soul trembling by resonance.
  • Trembling in every limb, hot and cold by turns, we bid for and carried off the aquarelle.
  • They went to the teacher in fear and trembling to tell her that they'd broken a window.
  • His hands on the wheel were slippery with perspiration, his fingers antsy and trembling. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • I had, somehow, got both lords and deans associated in my mind with infinite swillings of port wine, and bacchanalian orgies, and sat down at first, in much fear and trembling, lest I should be compelled to join, under penalties of salt-and-water; but Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
  • When finally I made the summit, my throat parched, my thigh muscles trembling, the herb woman was waiting.
  • By the time I wrestled it in, my arm was trembling with lactic exhaustion.
  • I watch her leap from rock to earth, my muscles trembling, sated in some unwholesome way. MOON PASSAGE
  • I do, however, have a reason for not writing, a reason that I can express in two horrific words, words I wince at even as my trembling fingers tap them out on the keyboard: FINAL EXAMS.
  • He's put on twenty or thirty pounds, and is no longer the pitiful scraggy rafter trembling with fear. OUTCAST
  • Agents around the world are trembling with excitement. Times, Sunday Times
  • As soon as they began to remove them, they were surprised by hearing cries and screams; and looking around in fear and trembling they saw a woman seeming to have started out of the earth, who flyted at them, that is, scolded them, in Gaelic. Rob Roy
  • Euphemia," said I, in as composed a tone as possible, although my whole frame was trembling with emotion, "Euphemia, I am glad I married you! Rudder Grange
  • Blanche gasped, a ragged sound, her fair, trembling hand jumping to cover her mouth.
  • The trembling women were smitten into an ecstasy of bewildered fear (as one of the words, 'affrighted' might more accurately be rendered), and his consolation to them, 'Be not affrighted, ye seek Jesus,' suggests that, in all the great sweep of the unseen universe, whatsoever beings may people that to us apparently waste and solitary space, howsoever many they may be, Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
  • While researching my "Herne the Hunter" Suppressed Transmission, I ran across Henry James, Sr., and his "vastation" at Windsor:Suddenly in a lightning-flash as it were "fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Kenneth Hite's Journal
  • To me he was an upper-form demi-god and I, seeing nothing odd in his actions, for he was what I called the cock of the school, voiced my trembling plea. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty
  • Out of one glazz I could read like head - lines which were sort of trembling in the rooker of the chelloveck that held them, like BOY VICTIM OF CRIMINAL REFORM SCHEME and GOVERNMENT AS MUR - Where's the show?
  • Seventeen and trembling on the brink of womanhood, she has already suffered the humiliation of being packed off as the poor relation with her rich cousins on holiday.
  • My legs were trembling with fear.
  • She could feel his hands trembling slightly at her waist.
  • witch put a mock malignity into her beautiful eyes, and Joseph, trembling with sincere horror, hurried out praying and ejaculating " wicked ".
  • In the open spaces on the slope, beyond the farthest shadow-reach of the manzanita, poised the mariposa lilies, like so many flights of jewelled moths suddenly arrested and on the verge of trembling into flight again. All Gold Cañon
  • Trembling, she put the phone down. It rang again almost immediately.
  • Daddy was trembling with anxiety as to how the talks would go.
  • The ensuing trembling in the morning made the plastic hours in the airport departure lounge more bearable, with only a few shandies to stop the shaking.
  • Five or six minutes later -- by which time, I'm not ashamed to admit, my arms screamed in pain and I was trembling from the unaccustomed exertion -- the EMTs arrived and took over. Altered Realities
  • Releasing my now trembling hand, she searched through her black purse, digging out a lighter and pack of cigarettes.
  • A weak trembling sound issued from his lips.
  • Clenching his hands tightly in a ball, Erik tried with all his might to control his trembling, but failed, ‘He said that if I did not draw my weapon he would cut me down where I stood.’
  • My phased polaron beams in battle cruisers raped those undulating Cue Cuppas with their trembling telekinetic blasters and non-phased shields. Categorizing Science Fiction
  • She's composed, but her lower lip's trembling slightly, and every few seconds, she'd bite it to try make it stop.
  • The golden aspen, sometimes referred to as the quaking or trembling aspen, along with cottonwoods are responsible for the region's lemony landscapes.
  • Hands trembling while holding your newly acquired gadget you dash to your car.
  • “In the name of God,” said Menteith, trembling with emotion, “if you know aught of the birth of this lady, do thy conscience the justice to disburden it of the secret before departing from this world!” A Legend of Montrose
  • The speech, delivered in a southern accent, trembling with indignation, was the biggest hit of the convention.
  • When I was finally upright, I was almost trembling with pain, but I had only come close to yelping once.
  • You need to be calm and composed, but your body is taut, pumped and trembling with the effects of surging cortisol. Times, Sunday Times
  • She got up, tears streaming from her eyes as he grabbed her trembling wrist and put the bracelet on her.
  • She was trembling with excitement but her voice was steady.
  • She fell upon her knees, her head upon her couch her hands clasped upon her head, overcome by anxiety and terror; and gipsy, idolatress, and pagan as she was, began with sobs and tremblings to ask mercy of the God of the Christians, and pray to Our Lady, her hostess. I. The Little Shoe. Book XI
  • Giojoso fell to trembling; behind him, Rinolfo, the cause of all this garboil, stared with round big eyes; whilst my mother, all a-quiver, clutched at her bosom and looked at me fearfully, but spoke no word. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
  • Trembling, he stood, buttoning his shirt back up.
  • So that when I heard his heavy footstep advancing along the passage my heart did misgive me, and I felt that I was trembling. Tales of all countries
  • At length poor Mrs. Camford uttered a faint cry, which called Thisbe's attention back to the spot from whence it never should have strayed, -- her mistress 'cushioned chair, -- and she rushed in a sort of frenzy for the nerve-reviver, and applied it to the trembling lady's nostrils; whereupon that delicately-constituted specimen of the genus feminine uttered a stentorian shriek and flounced about the room like an irate porcupine, greatly to the terror of Alice, who had never witnessed such a scene before. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
  • I watch her leap from rock to earth, my muscles trembling, sated in some unwholesome way. MOON PASSAGE
  • Now, do you not see how, like some great star, trembling into the field of the telescope, and sending arrowy beams before it to announce its approach, the great central Christian truth is here dawning, germinant, prophesying its full rising? Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms
  • In less than a minute, he could destroy me utterly, reducing me to a tearful, trembling wreck, consumed with a wretched, self-loathing misery.
  • I was shaking all over, trembling like a leaf.
  • A trembling man wears a headband with "anticorruption" written on it. The Jakarta Post Breaking News
  • The room is warm now, but he is still trembling.
  • The girl looked away, her pink glossed lips trembling at my sudden understanding.
  • Nor was the idea dispelled when she stopped and faced him in the privacy of her room with her eyes swollen and a trembling under-lip. Doom Castle
  • She was still trembling, tiny aftershocks of excitement tingling inside her.
  • I cadged tobacco, poor cheap tobacco, from poor doddering old chaps trembling on the edge of dissolution. CHAPTER XIII
  • When he came out of the water, he was trembling with cold.
  • Love is trembling happiness.
  • With the deep tones of a bugle signalling the end of the remembrance service in the background, Emmett said in a trembling voice that his journey back to the camp brought closure for him.
  • Without knowing it, she was trembling under her bedclothes, her knees shaking beneath the linen.
  • Breathing hard with excitement he turned and laid his back against the panels, trembling in every muscle, terrified by the result of his impulsive audacity, thunder-struck by a lightning-like foreglimpse of its possible consequences. The Black Bag
  • Twice she had to stop to rest, her arms trembling with the strain, locking her feet into semi-secure footholds and leaning into the rock.
  • Ben could feel the trembling in his slender frame, see the convulsive hitch of his shoulders as he fought against sobs.
  • She was trembling, and her stomach felt empty, nagging as it did when she was scared.
  • Whenever the lad bespake him, he answered him kindly, trembling the while and would turn to him groaning and crying, and thus he did till supper was brought in, when he fell to eating, with his eyes on the boy but refrained not from shedding tears. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • A miracle, a vision, it was trembling on the verge like a drop on the faucet.
  • The bundle shifted slightly, and Diana noted with indrawn breath she was trembling.
  • When Maddy Cohan reached him, she noticed his hand trembling as he wiped his glasses with his shirttail. O: A Presidential Novel
  • I watch the spreading ripples of her moonlit eyes, hypnotized by the suede kiss of her insatiableness. the lady of the lake presses herself against the reaching shelf of a sandy mouth reabsorbing the tiny trembling pools of pleasures glistening frenzy. and in my swimming wake there is an unravelling scar upon the surface, barely visible if only for an instance metaphor for the finite ness of my life and perhaps that is why Wendchymes Diary Entry
  • He shuddered and then settled back in his chair with a trembling sigh. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • 'An emaciated patriarch in a suit of white drill, a solah topi with a green-lined rim on a head trembling with age, joined us after crossing the street in a trotting shuffle, and stood propped with both hands on the handle of an umbrella. Lord Jim
  • The drums scatter while a trembling, funky bass-riff lays the ground work for the string section to lead.
  • Honey climbed to the stage, clutching her handwritten speech and trembling all over.
  • It was as if the outward fear and trembling inherent in the century of mass death had taken inward hold within James's own family.
  • One man was holding a long string of rosary beads in his trembling hands.
  • She was trembling with excitement but her voice was steady.
  • The thought made the old man panicky for the moment, and he stretched forth a palsied hand which wandered tremblingly over the small heap of dry wood beside him. THE LAW OF LIFE
  • ‘When the first truckload arrived, my hand was slightly trembling when shooting,’ he wrote.
  • She continued tirelessly, painting with pessimistic strokes the growing black future her husband was meditating for her, while the boy, fearful of some vague, incomprehensible catastrophe, began to weep silently, with a pendulous, trembling underlip. CHAPTER XIX
  • But Sato continued on sleeping, his breath fanning Tenkou's trembling hands.
  • Her finger is trembling with excitement as she points. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was a cross – country road, full, after the first three or four miles, of holes and cart – ruts, which, being covered by the snow, were so many pitfalls to the trembling horses, and obliged them to keep a footpace. The Old Curiosity Shop
  • That he loved her, on the other hand, was as clear as day, and she consciously delighted in beholding his love-manifestations - the glowing eyes with their tender lights, the trembling hands, and the never failing swarthy flush that flooded darkly under his sunburn. Chapter 20
  • No sobs or splutters or hiccoughs spilled from her trembling lip, although, her lip did tremble.
  • It was still trembling, so slightly he could barely feel it.
  • Fleda my dear," said Mrs. Evelyn, with that trembling tone of concealed ecstasy which always set every one of Fleda's nerves a jarring, -- "you may tell the gentlemen that they do not always know when they are making an unfelicitous compliment -- I never read what poets say about 'briny drops' and 'salt tears' without imagining the heroine immediately to be something like Lot's wife. Queechy
  • She came to herself presently, so much that she could see him clearly, and was now growing more shamefast than afraid, when she saw beyond doubt that the man was of the sons of Adam; but what with her shame that was now, and her fear that had been, she yet had no might to move, but stood there pale and trembling like a leaf, and might scarce keep her feet. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • The tears welled up in Bessie's brown eyes, and her lips were trembling. Part I
  • They tended to be depressing these visits: the married sister was living in a small way; the first cousin seemed to have got into a rut; the uncle and aunt were failing, with a stooping, trembling, old-fashioned kind of decrepitude, a rigidity of body and mind, which somehow one didn't see much over home. The Imperialist
  • Informed that they were a middle-aged forty, they doddered, trembling with ague and spoke their lines in quavering falsetto. FAIRYLAND
  • A year on from their emergence into the public eye, we are swamped with soporific, overwrought, piano-led rock played by lip-trembling white boys with messy hair, student debts and fey voices.
  • They both fly fast and straight, but with a trembling motion of their body. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many cliffs are now brightened by the pretty pink flowers of thrift on their trembling stalks. Times, Sunday Times
  • With trembling fingers, at the conclusion of the meal, Mrs. Thayer rang the little silver bell. I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
  • I was aware that she was trembling.
  • “Weel, my lords, ye ken the fray at the hunting this morning — I shall not get out of the trembling exies until I have a sound night’s sleep — just after that, they bring ye in a pretty page that had been found in the Park. The Fortunes of Nigel
  • The little witch put a mock malignity into her beautiful eyes, and Joseph, trembling with sincere horror, hurried out praying and ejaculating "wicked" as he went.
  • Glancing up from my notes at the old man—his expression vacant, his head trembling slightly—it was impossible to imagine him involved in such an action. CONSPIRATA
  • The chirography was labored, heavy and trembling; it betrayed the stiff hand of a man more accustomed to guiding the plough than the pen. The Honor of the Name
  • I could feel the ship trembling and bucking while Maura tried to keep it under control.
  • Gavin's voice sounds miraculous, the low baritone of it trembling in my already shaky spine, and I needed him here.
  • Agents around the world are trembling with excitement. Times, Sunday Times
  • Out of the corner of her eye, she could see the dagger trembling slightly.
  • Trembling, she peeped through her laced fingers at her stereo.
  • For them there was nothing left — no more tremblings and flutterings and delicious anguishes, no more throbbing and pulsing, and sighing and song. WHEN GOD LAUGHS
  • The girl cried until she was red in the face and trembling, as her mother rocked her.
  • It shows its whites, its ears flicking, its haunches trembling - it senses their stalker nearby as well - but it is a good horse and stands its ground with him.
  • As soon as they began to remove them, they were surprised by hearing cries and screams; and looking around in fear and trembling they saw a woman seeming to have started out of the earth, who _flyted_ at them, that is, scolded them, in Gaelic. Rob Roy — Volume 01
  • His hands were trembling when he signed the document
  • As to particular persons, that follow Christ in meekness, and in fear, and in much trembling, observe, [1.] Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • His trembling hand got the glass close enough to his mouth to allow him a sip.
  • With trembling hands, she shook the coffee grounds into the filter.
  • _ Tremor of old age consists of a perpetual trembling of the hands, or of the head, or of other muscles, when they are exerted; and is erroneously called paralytic; and seems owing to the small quantity of animal power residing in the muscular fibres. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • She was, however, uneasy when she heard the strange whistling sound produced by their irregular passage through the dark night air, and when the violence of their movements made the basin oscillate, she lay down tremblingly at the bottom of her golden basin, and then carefully gathered her garments around her, lest they should come in contact with the dark man. The Princess Ilsée: A Fairy Tale
  • It wasn't exertion that left him weak-kneed and trembling, but rather the gut-wrenching horror of Joe's scream and his pleas for mercy.
  • She smiles, a soft, trembling upward curve of mouth, " Not really.
  • With trembling fingers, he removed the camera from his pocket.
  • When I first coined the term “nuke porn” I was mostly disparaging this genre of nuclear thriller, caricaturing it as “the finger on the trigger, bringing the trembling world to the brink of a shattering climax.” How the End Begins
  • Trembling with terror of this formidable freebooter (for he placed no belief in the declaration that he was the prince of Scotland), the man obeyed, and Bruce breaking the seals, found, as he expected, a long epistle from the regent, urging the sanguinary aim of his communications. The Scottish Chiefs
  • At any moment, I was expecting an old cronk to appear from behind the hangars, trembling and hippety-hopping and leaving a trail of nuts and bolts behind it to the shriek of rusty gear wheels, smoking rockets and horn blasts with the music of La The Commander
  • Next minute she was leaning against a goal-post, trembling with the violence of her effort, while the High School hoorayed itself hoarse in the joy of the hard-won victory. The Luckiest Girl in the School
  • He is both stridently laddish and oddly feminine - softly spoken, huge eyes, a coy look when unsure of himself - and this afternoon he is friendly, if a little on edge, his hand trembling from emotion or fatigue.
  • Trembling the while, Ogger, who knew by experience what were the power and might of Charles, and who had learned the lesson by long consuetude in better days, then said, 'When ye shall behold the crops shaking for fear in the fields, and the gloomy Po and the Ticino overflowing the walls of the city with their waves blackened with steel The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
  • One man was holding a long string of rosary beads in his trembling hands.
  • On the floor beneath him, the puppy was stretched out, legs trembling, making small yips at some rival in his dream. OFF THE CHART
  • As the last phrase faded away and the sergeant lowered his trembling hand, the impossible vista which had occupied CYBER WRY the zenat vanished, leaving in its wake the image of a flat, familiar sandpainting devoid of any depth. Cyber Way
  • She whispered his name achingly against his skin; need overcoming reason as her de fences came crashing down, her body pliant and eager against his, her mouth trembling as she caressed his skin. A Cure For Love
  • his trembling was evidence of his fear
  • When finally I made the summit, my throat parched, my thigh muscles trembling, the herb woman was waiting.
  • Her eyes were wet and inflamed, and her chest was trembling. THE BROKEN GOD
  • The first intimation he had of a repulse was the trembling of In His Steps
  • He stood up, trembling with anger. The Sun
  • I took a shaky breath and with a trembling hand, I took out the paper once more, my eyes skimming over the quickly written words.
  • Quinn breathed deeply, exhaled with a trembling chest, and breathed in again.
  • He shifts, muttering about a stupid feather, and I crack a weak, watery smile, my lip trembling.
  • This effect was heightened by the delicately aquiline nose with its thin trembling nostrils, and by the general air of eagle wildness which seemed to characterize not only the face but the creature herself. THE GREAT INTERROGATION
  • You need to be calm and composed, but your body is taut, pumped and trembling with the effects of surging cortisol. Times, Sunday Times
  • She glanced at it briefly, taking in the trembling peaks and abrupt cliffs and faces.
  • Jay could feel himself trembling as he climbed his way up the stacked boxes in the corner of the room.
  • What experimental procedure could provoke some people to profuse sweating and trembling, leaving 10% extremely upset, while others broke into unexplained hysterical laughter?
  • Her hand would be trembling on the highball glass and she'd have a nervous headache where I am robust and refreshed, but the referent is a useful one. Recently on This Recording
  • Trembling brush strokes imply human frailty, just as the screen-like haze evokes a veil drawn over more troubled memories.
  • I remember how excited I was, nearly trembling, when we went to the gun shop run by the short man with black, horn-rimmed glasses and a noticeable limp to pick out my first handgun.
  • Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. Albert Schweitzer 
  • Despite brilliant colouring, orioles are often difficult to see slipping through the foliage where sun, shade and trembling leaves create a broken pattern of black and yellow - perfect for hiding from prying eyes.
  • Whole days in bed cawing Nooooo at the wall; the dress yellowing, trembling if I open the wardrobe; the slewed mirror, full-length, her, myself, who did this to me? 2009 November 06 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
  • My stamina is still so hammered, typing this much leaves my fingers trembling to the extent I have trouble keeping them in line with QWERTY. Diary 7 November 2009
  • I wrote two pieces tonight for various jobs, but they both are thin, trembling, smelly things.
  • In this way the erotic symbolism of urolagnia and coprolagnia is completely analogous with that dynamic symbolism of the clinging and swinging garments which Herrick has so accurately described, with the complex symbolism of flagellation and its play of the rod against the blushing and trembling nates, with the symbols of sexual strain and stress which are embodied in the foot and the act of treading. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
  • Crouched shivering at the curtains, that's what, sweating pints at the thought of what those booze-sodden villains would do if they chanced to seek sport abovestairs and discovered that the trembling occupant of the Popplewell chamber was none other than the raider who'd come demanding breakfast ... THE NUMBERS
  • Then came a swift agitato finale -- a breathless, hurrying, trembling movement, descriptive of flight, and uncertainty, and vague impulsive terror, which carried us away on its rustling wings, and left us all in emotion and wonder. The Ontario Readers Third Book
  • Taking her little face in his hands, he kissed her trembling lips.
  • Agents around the world are trembling with excitement. Times, Sunday Times
  • She managed a shaky smile, and held out a trembling hand - the one that she wasn't gripping Greg's with - for me to shake.
  • So, if and when you finally hold a publisher's contract in your trembling little mitt, take a good look at what it says.
  • The piano and guitars are excellent and lead singer Adam Levine has an impressive range and a decent amount of soulful emotion trembling from his lily-white throat.
  • She added: "Shows like Dragons 'Den, where a succession of trembling entrepreneurs are' slayed 'by the dragons, has led to angel investment being seen as a macho arena and we need to address this urgently. Startups | Home
  • She clenched her hands in her lap to hide their trembling.
  • He had broken out into a sweat and was trembling slightly.
  • Damage to these cells through Ecstasy use - and natural decline through ageing - could result in Parkinsonism, a neurodegenerative disease causing trembling hands and slower movements.
  • I have pasted over the frontispiece a drawing of Yeats by the Senior Yeats which this edition does not reprint from The Trembling of the Veil.
  • His nonentity was a source of regret to us: we lamented to see s tall handsome youth, destined to rule over his fellow-men, trembling at the eight of a horse, and wasting his time in the game of hide-and - seek, or at leap-frog and whose whole information consisted in knowing his prayers, and in saying grace before and after meals. The Memoirs of Napoleon
  • With her slim fingers slightly trembling, Amy disengaged the key he'd given her from her ring and let it spill from her hand to the floor.
  • See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt.
  • She made two discoveries simultaneously: one was that she was trembling from head to foot, the other was that Neil had somehow taken hold of her hand and that the heat radiating out from that point of contact was having a very disturbing effect on her ah 'cady over strained nervous system. So Close And No Closer
  • Brown has been Maryland's lieutenant governor, he has walked a trembling fourth-grader on stage in front of a crowd of 1,000 or more in the cavernous convention center in Ocean City to deliver the year's "If I were a mayor" speech. First Click, MarylandMikulski maintains wide lead in U.S. Senate race
  • Her exposed skin tingled against the cold, and she was so fervently trembling she was certain she would faint.
  • He heard her trembling voice uplifted in thanksgiving, and praise God.
  • Gil was white and trembling with anger.
  • the trembling of his played out limbs
  • Forester was staring at the cottages and the cars, his fists bunched up hard, trembling with rage.
  • In a jiffy, Poetry and I were back outside, and with him holding the ladder and with me all trembling inside, but not too nervous to climb, I went up that ladder, hand over hand, and in less than a half-dozen worried jiffies, had our swing board off the chimney and tossed it out into a snow drift. Shenanigans at Sugar Creek
  • He was trembling and his breathing was shallow and shaky.
  • The only problem was that Martini had received a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, inviting the prospect of another pontificate ending in slurred speech and trembling hands. The Year of two Popes
  • A young person of undeterminable gender propped themselves up against the bar whilst trying to inject something into a wasted arm with a trembling hand.
  • Trembling with fear, she handed over the money to the gunman.
  • The old lady complained indignantly , her lips trembling as she spoke.
  • We went back to viewing the before and after photos while some of the women hummed along to the tunes blaring from the neighbor's trembling jalopy. French Word-A-Day:
  • His hands trembling, he began to speak, but something sounding like "argh" came out and he cleared his throat and began again. Video: Teddy Kennedy's Speech Endorsing Obama
  • I remember that I approached the beloved object with fear and trembling; my heart beat, my ideas grew con fused, my voice failed me, I mangled all I said; I cried yes for no; I made a thousand blunders; I was inimitably inept; I was absurd from top to toe, and the more I saw it the more absurd I became. The Kempton-Wace Letters
  • She lay back among her pillows, trembling in the dark, afraid of she knew not what, her wide eyes agaze at the ceiling's shadows. The Way of the Wind
  • At the head of the table, he broke pieces of bread into his soup with trembling hands.
  • Here, one of the gang (later identified as the man who had been known as John Robin Ross-Ellison, and who insisted that he was a Baluchi) declared that he had just murdered Mrs. Dearman in her drawing-room and made a full statement -- a statement found to be only too true, its details corroborated by a trembling _hamal_ who had peeped and listened, as all Indian servants peep and listen. Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life
  • She flies inside in terror, trembling all over, and that day decides to put back the curtain.

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