179 collocations for tremble

" "But it couldn't have been anything else," said Billie, trembling a little with the reaction.

And at last, one night, after leaving the instrument silent, mute in the corner of the parlor for many years, Aunt Nancy Smith dragged out her harp, and, seating herself, reached out her knotted, trembling hands and brought forth what seemed the very echo, so faint and faltering it was, of "Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True.

So trembles the maiden heart.

All Granada awaited, in trembling anxiety, the result of his negotiations.

I understood, I cannot tell how; and with trembling all my limbs seemed to drop out of joint and my face grow moist with terror.

He saw by Helen's moist eye and trembling lip that her woman's heart was off its guard, and he knew, by the infallible instinct of sex, that he should be forgiven, if he thanked her for her sisterly sympathies in the most natural way,expressive, and at the same time economical of breath and utterance.

And o'er the trench and trembling earth, The morn that gives the battle birth Is on the San Juan Hill! Hark! sounds again the bugle call!

" They did so, and set trembling the first wave of that widening ring of horror which finally informed the remotest boundaries of the little village that a man from their midst was mysteriously missing.

When WILSON has abolished War And grim Bellona claims no more The greatest of her sons, What job has Peace to offer thee That shall fulfil thy destiny, O Sergeant-Major Buns? Shall thy great voice, at whose behests Trembled a hundred martial breasts, Be heard without a smile Urging astonished Cingalese To tap the tapering rubber trees Upon their distant isle?

Sing then that dim so fitting to improve A tender modesty, and trembling love; Swimming in butter of a golden hue, Garnish'd with drops of Rose's spicy dew.

Then he bade the lady of Sir Phelot to help him arm himself from head to foot, and she did so, trembling a very great deal.

and from under his be-dabbled smock he drew forth a head, pale as to cheek and hair, whose wide eyes stared blindly as it dangled in his hairy hand; and now, staring up at this awful, sightless thingthat brow at whose frown a city had trembled, those pallid lips that had smiled, and smiling, doomed men and women to torment and deatha hush fell on Belsaye and no man spoke or stirred.

Repent, confess your sins in all haste, be buried again in the waters of baptism, then cast out the Gentile, and throw off his yoke,and thereafter walk in trembling all your days,for your wickedness has been great.

He raised clenched, trembling fists above his head, and brought them down, a shattering blow, upon the keyboard.

I daresay the parishioners gossipped about the absence of their vicar's wife from the Sacrament, and indeed I remember the pain and trembling wherewith, on the first "Sacrament Sunday" after my return, I rose from my seat and walked quietly from the church, leaving the white-spread altar.

No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.

"Why do you tremble maiden?

" "What do you want to know?" trembled the woman.

Once out of the town limits of Ghent we bowled along at top speed, with the American colors trembling fore and aft and impressive- looking signs pasted on windshield and side-flaps.

What blood-vessels the poor struggler burst in his desperate push for lifehow much he was bruised and lacerated in his plunge through the forest, or how much the dogs tore him, the Macon editor has not chronicledthey are matters of no momentbut his heart is touched with the merits of Mr. Adams' 'EXCELLENT DOGS,' that 'soon run down and secured' a guiltless and trembling human creature!

The instant the mare felt the rope she stopped and stood trembling a moment, then came straight up to him.

All night, with only the twinkling, trembling stars for company, he lay there, naked, wet, and cold, thirsty with the bitter taste of sea-salt in his mouth, never daring to stir, listening to the continual lapping sound of the water.

"Poor child!" "Dear grandfather," cried the girl, with an energy which shone in her flushed face, trembling voice, and impassioned, gestures, "O, hear me pray that we may beg, or work in open roads or fields, to earn a scanty living, rather than live as we do now.

What strings symphonious tremble in the air, What strains of vocal transport round her play!

" With sad dissenting mien, and solemn voice, That trembled 'neath its burden, thus spake he, "Full many of the good and bold have come From every land the pilgrim-sun looks on, All thirsting for this water golden bright; These darkening eyes have seen them all pass on, But ne'er a one return; and I am old.

179 collocations for  tremble