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Trembling

adjective

Vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze. Synonyms: shaky, shivering. "The quaking child asked for more" , "Quivering leaves of a poplar tree" , "With shaking knees" , "Seemed shaky on her feet" , "Sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier" , "Trembling hands"

noun

A shaky motion. Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, vibration.

Tremble

verb

(past & past part. trembled; pres. part. trembling)

Move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways.

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"Trembling" Quotes from Famous Books

... the privacy of his laboratory, a single fact arises from the test-tube in his trembling hand and confronts him! His brain reels; the glass torment falls upon the floor, and shatters into countless pieces, but he is not conscious of it, for he feels it thrust through his heart. When he recovers from the first shock, he can only ...

— The Darrow Enigma • Melvin L. Severy

... the boy, and no one—no, not his mother—had a right to touch him; that she might order him to be corrected, and that he would suffer the punishment, as he and Harry often had, but no one should lay a hand on his boy. Trembling with passionate rebellion against what he conceived the injustice of the procedure, he vowed that on the day he came of age he would set young Gumbo free; went to visit the child in the slaves' quarters, and gave him one ...

— Boys and girls from Thackeray • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... temple he seemed to see each separate picture as the monotonous voice called it up before his mind, and always it was his own face which shimmered among the shadowy minarets, and always it was a familiar voice calling him through the ages which whispered to him from the trembling leaves of the Bo-Tree as it hung its branches down to ...

— The Native Born - or, The Rajah's People • I. A. R. Wylie

... caught his sleeve with a trembling hand. "I never thought that I would live to face such an hour," he exclaimed. "To despise myself—to be despised by all the world! To be browbeaten, and insulted, and ...

— The Moneychangers • Upton Sinclair

... toilsome class of people, often turning their narrow homes into workshops where old and young ply a handicraft from early morn to the late evening hours. Hundreds of men and women, arriving in this country after they have passed the middle life, learn trades and work at them till their trembling hands can hold the tools no longer or the light fades from their overstrained eyes. Among them there are not a few that have seen better days at their native places, or are deeply learned in the Law. They are quick in seizing the secret of a successful trade of paying manufacture, ...

— Zionism and Anti-Semitism - Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil • Max Simon Nordau

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