Tremulously
['trɛmjələsli]
Definition
(adv.) in a tremulous manner; 'the leaves rustled tremulously in the wind'.
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Examples
- Her simple little fancies shrank away tremulously, as fairies in the story-books, before a superior bad angel. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I tremulously asked of the servant, who was coming down the garden to open the gate for us. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- We had been used to look forward to death tremulously-- wherefore, but because its place was obscure? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- No ceramony, Colonel, I beg, said Mrs. Moss with a wave of her hand, and he opened the letter rather tremulously. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You see, too, said the Doctor, tremulously, it is such an old companion. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Yes, said Dorothea, rather tremulously. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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