All night long the quaking denizens of that hamlet lie and listen to the roaring, which is an effectual preventive of drowsiness, as the moment any one begins to be seized with it he also begins to fancy he is about to be seized and deglutinated by the horrid monster!

" "Why then a shivering, quaking o' the back-bone?" "Roger, man, what troubles thee now?" "I do fear thou'rt be-devilled and moon-struck, master!"

I went down with some inward quaking but much outward boldness as the pounding increased, and did not even ask 'Who's there?' before I opened the door.

Only now and then a trembling, female, generally ancient, voice is heardyou cannot guess from what part of the meeting it proceedswith a low, buzzing, musical sound, laying out a few words which "she thought might suit the condition of some present," with a quaking diffidence, which leaves no possibility of supposing that any thing of female vanity was mixed up, where the tones were so full of tenderness, and a restraining modesty.

The slave-holder's heart now with terror is quaking, Salvation and Mercy to Heaven belong!

And before we had even begun our dinner in came the ample Ann Spencer, quaking with hospitality, and bearing a platterlet me here speak of it with the bated breath of a proper respect, for I cannot even now think of it without a sort of inner thrillbearing a platter of her most famous fried chicken.

They have owed their liberty and their political independence for ages to the quaking and swampy soil, which they pass over in the time of drought, and on which they alone know how to walk in security to their solitude in the delta of the Oroonoco, to their abode on the trees, where religious enthusiasm will probably never lead any American Stylites. . . .

His best faculty is at the dresser, where he seems to have great skill in the tactics, ranging his dishes in order military, and placing with great discretion in the fore-front meats more strong and hardy, and the more cold and cowardly in the rear; as quaking tarts and quivering custards, and such milk-sop dishes, which scape many times the fury of the encounter.

But here was I put to a most horrid quaking the moment I passed the door, to perceive old Simon standing foremost in the throng about the altar, in his leather cap (which he would not remove for clerk or sexton, but threatened them, as I am told, with the law if they lay a finger on him).

"Then were the Faithful tried, and with strong quaking did they quake."

This time the man was not crying; he was quaking like a leaf; the trembling he felt plainly through the blankets down the entire length of his own body.

he asked, trying to keep his voice from quaking.

"Allow me," said Mr. Raleigh, taking her plate and bringing it back directly with a wafery slice of bread and a quaking tumulus of jelly.

The following evening we were stopped by a thicket of quaking ash, through which it required a full day's hard work to open a passageway.

Well, I was continuing my stroll, when I seemed to feel some quaking of the ground, and before one could count twenty, it was as if the island was bent upon wracking itself to pieces.

Not now floating light like a small moving cloud unwilling to leave the flowery braes, though it be to melt in heaven, but driven along like a shroud of flying mist before the tempest, she came upon us in the midst of that dreary moss; and at the sound of our quaking voice, fell down with clasped hands at our feet"My father's dead!"

There he said a quaking good-bye to his last hopeand executed the president's orders, trying not to notice the grins of the "goat" crew as they shunted the machinery into hiding.

In a valley, sparsely timbered with quaking aspens and cotton-woods, stood a large camp.

When the time came for making the pemmican, two large fires were built of dry quaking aspen wood, and these were allowed to burn down to red coals.

Here is one runs a-quaking, another a-ranting; one again runs after the baptism, and another after the Independency: here is one for Freewill, and another for Presbytery; and yet possibly most of all these sects run quite the wrong way, and yet every one is for his life, his soul, either for heaven or hell.

His terror for a moment had been primal, literally a simian's helpless quaking.

Probably Brunet was of the same opinion; for, with his usual perversity, he plunged in immediately after Plante, and stood shaking and quaking behind him, every now and then looking around him, as much as to say, "I've got ahead of you, this time!"

QUAKING-GRASS.Is common in meadow land, and helps to make a thick bottom; it does not however appear to be worth the trouble of select culture.

But he paused again at the water's edge, and Piggy, who had come up close enough to touch the rickety lad, reached out a muddy hand and dabbed the quaking boy's breast.

Old Dinah was evidently quaking in her shoes, and began to see her error, as she glanced reproachfully at me, but no further revelation seemed to be expected.