Trembling

Examples

• With trembling hand she gave him the paper, and sat white and motionless looking at him while he read it. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She spoke so modestly and softly and her trembling hand expressed such agitation as it moved to and fro upon the silent notes! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It kept up a slow fire of indignation and a trembling trouble of grief, which harassed and crushed me altogether. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The trembling hand may have said, with some expression, 'Think of me, think how I have worked, think of my many cares! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Oliver leaned his head upon his hand when the old man disappeared, and pondered, with a trembling heart, on the words he had just heard. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• My dear, how you are trembling! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mary came trembling towards him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Her breath was coming quickly, and her lips were pale, parted, and trembling. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• You--you--are not particularly attached to it, I dare say,' said Mr. Pickwick, trembling with anxiety. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He has patted the babies on the head,' said Mr. Perker, trembling with anxiety. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He changed colour at those words, and I felt his hand trembling a little when it came to my turn to take it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She was pale and trembling. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I thought we had parted when you came to Lowick many weeks ago--you thought you were going then, said Dorothea, her voice trembling a little. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In this state Frank Churchill had found her, she trembling and conditioning, they loud and insolent. Jane Austen. Emma.
• A great animal--truly, Frank's black horse--stood trembling, panting, snorting before the door; a man held it, Frank, as I thought. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Emma's tremblings as she asked, and as she listened, were better concealed than Harriet's, but they were not less. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Who knows all its awful perhapses,--those shudderings and tremblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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