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Example sentences for "trembled"

Lexicographically close words:
trellised; trellises; trematode; trematodes; tremble; tremblement; tremblements; trembler; trembles; trembleth
  1. Some of the men were so weak that they trembled as they walked, and the native children often cried from the pangs of hunger.

  2. Pennington's voice was harsh and trembled with apprehension.

  3. She brought him the baby and placed it in his great arms that trembled so; he sat down and gazed long and earnestly at this flesh of his flesh and blood of his blood.

  4. His hands trembled as he stood before Bryce, smiling fatuously and plucking at the cuffs of his mackinaw.

  5. The fall of Omdurman further confirmed our fears, and we trembled to think that Khartum would fall before the English arrived.

  6. Here the women trembled over the drying form of Fraser.

  7. The American cannonading roared along the Argonne front, and the German artillery answered, until the air trembled with an overload of sound.

  8. Far out toward the horizon we watched a vessel fade in the violet dusk; the evening star trembled low on the horizon as if enamored of the waters.

  9. Every one felt the presence of trouble impending; one grave question breathed forth from the haunting music and, unspoken, trembled on every lip; one overmastering idea blended with and overpowered all others.

  10. As we emerged from that scene of heat and desolation, a prayer trembled upon every lip and its only theme was, "Lord, help us to be careful.

  11. A single star like a great silver lamp trembled above the summit of a hill, where the gathering mist like a thin gossamer film was settling on its sides.

  12. The air that in times of peace throbbed with the notes of the lark now trembled with the report of heavy guns and crashing shells.

  13. She understood, I am sure, for she would not lift her eyes to me, but her hand trembled as she gave me the blue flower from her belt.

  14. They stamped their feet and did double-shuffles until the floor trembled beneath them.

  15. As they forced him down the ladders he trembled like a poplar.

  16. His hands trembled so that he could scarcely open it.

  17. The count's hands, however, trembled so violently that he could scarcely hold his razor, and his face must have been cut several times.

  18. He trembled and turned pale under his rough skin, tanned as it was by sun and storm.

  19. She did not know how to begin--she hesitated, trembled and sobbed.

  20. This was surely the mode she would adopt to break a marriage which was so hateful to her; and Tremorel trembled at the idea of Sauvresy knowing all.

  21. She trembled like a leaf; her legs staggered; but her mind was already at work seeking a subterfuge.

  22. His hand trembled so that the globe tingled.

  23. He was livid, his teeth chattered, and he trembled so violently that he let the pistol drop.

  24. She trembled as a single leaf among the thousands that deck a full-leaved tree may tremble upon a still day, moved by a convulsive force within itself.

  25. I trembled lest Dorothy should ruin my reputation for gallantry.

  26. She leaned against me, and covered her face with her hands, while her form shook and trembled as if with a palsy.

  27. I, who would feel no fear had I to fight a dozen men, trembled with fright during this adventure.

  28. Van Amberg waited in silence, his arms crossed upon his breast, his eyes fixed upon his wife; he stood like a statue, assisting neither by word nor gesture the poor creature who trembled before him.

  29. She trembled without terror; her eyes were tearful, but she felt no regret.

  30. William stood a little apart, holding a prayer-book, but his eyes had left the page to look at Annunciata, and two large tears trembled on their lids.

  31. Tremendous possibilities danced a wild jig in his Mary's pretty head; trembled her voice.

  32. Her voice trembled a little, and she repeated: "You understand?

  33. Conscience made thumbs of his fingers, trembled his joints.

  34. George trembled into the adjoining room indicated; closed the door.

  35. She spoke defiantly; but some stupid something that she hated yet could not repress trembled her lips, robbed her tone of its banter.

  36. Awful visions of her George, fettered between policemen, trembled her pretty fingers.

  37. A poached egg was allowed to grow cold as she trembled over her delectable fancies.

  38. His face flushed; his hands trembled with excitement.

  39. Laughter trembled deliciously in her voice: "I promise faithfully to bear in mind your heartlessness!

  40. During a brief silence he found opportunity to observe that Mr. Blensop was working with hands that trembled singularly.

  41. Visibly the woman drooped, betraying physical exhaustion in every line of her pose, seeming scarcely strong enough to lift the silken lashes that trembled upon cheeks a little drawn and pale, with the faintest of bluish rings beneath the eyes.

  42. I don't know how to thank you, sir," trembled Johnson, but he stiffened immediately as Applerod intruded himself into the room with a bundle of papers which he laid upon the desk.

  43. Judith was not easily frightened, but she trembled as she spoke.

  44. She trembled a little, and Throckmorton saw it.

  45. The former, with his indolent and listless blue eyes and flaxen hair, trembled and blinked, his eyelids heavy with sleep, and crossed himself.

  46. Her hand, which had fallen upon mine, trembled violently.

  47. When he thought of being beneath the same roof with Lady Ella, he flushed and trembled as he had never done before.

  48. Dolly trembled in her doubt and distress; she fought down tears.

  49. She tore off nothing, and she cut nothing; patiently knots were untied and papers unfolded, though Dolly's fingers trembled with excitement.

  50. For now she was upon her feet she felt that her knees trembled under her, and her footsteps were unsteady as she followed the woman over the grass.

  51. She went a little more slowly when she found herself in the park; and she trembled a little as her eye searched the grassy openings.

  52. Dolly, be it remarked, was not shy here; before her noble friends, she neither flushed nor trembled nor was nervous.

  53. Dolly began quietly, but her colour flushed and her lip trembled as she went on, and her eye sparkled through a sudden veil of tears.

  54. But I think you ought to know before," said Dolly, and he felt how she trembled in his arms.

  55. When Zein ul Asnam saw these portents, his joints trembled and he was sore affrighted, for that he beheld a thing he had never in all his life seen nor heard.

  56. So she feared and trembled and he said to her, "Harkye, an thou say aught or cry out, I will kill thee on the spot.

  57. A lovely colour lay upon her cheeks; her eyes resting full and steadfastly upon him, gleamed through tears, whilst her voice seemed as if it would cry out for joy, and again trembled with emotion.

  58. Yes; her hands had trembled and her heart had fluttered as she had done the great deed, and then looked up in his sparkling eyes; but it was from happiness, from pure happiness and joy.

  59. Well, he had kindly released the family from the anxiety which he had caused them--Fraeulein Elsa, too, who had evidently trembled for her brother.

  60. His voice, which had become calmer, trembled again, and he had cast down his eyes.

  61. And then the strong man trembled from head to foot, while with a cautious glance around he quickly folded the letter, and tearing open his uniform, put it in his pocket.

  62. There was a pathetic expression about her rosy lips, and tears trembled on her long eyelashes.

  63. Kitty trembled from head to foot; she could scarcely restrain her terrible emotion.

  64. His lips trembled as he did so, and by the lamplight she saw that he was very pale.

  65. He was a bold man, but his heart stood still with awe of her, and his soul trembled within him at this supreme moment of his fate.

  66. A great sadness came upon his face as she spoke; his lips trembled a little.

  67. There I stood in the thickening dusk, the glorious sounds floating about me; and I trembled with very ecstasy of enjoyment.

  68. There was a time--it seems further away than childhood--when I took up my pen with eagerness; if my hand trembled it was with hope.

  69. Men and horses were both those they feared, and they trembled at hearing one say, 'Woe is me that those rogues have made off, and have not been caught!

  70. Mattathias trembled at the sight, and his zeal broke forth.

  71. On this occasion at the side of the topmost coil, a white aigrette scintillated and trembled with her every movement.

  72. Because of some sudden eddy spinning outward from the middle of its turmoil, a dozen bourses of continental Europe clamoured with panic, a dozen Old-World banks, firm as the established hills, trembled and vibrated.

  73. Frequently the Sultan trembled before such pretorians, and the chief aga of those "lambs" was one of the most important dignitaries in the Divan.

  74. Krysia rose, but her feet trembled under her; and now blushing, now growing pale, she closed her eyes.

  75. Basia trembled as if roused from sleep, and raised her eyes, in which Pan Michael saw, to his utter astonishment, two tears as large as pearls.

  76. All eyes were turned on him; he trembled throughout his whole body, as if all his wounds were reopened, and he repeated, "That is my captive!

  77. The brave heart of Pan Michael trembled at the thought.

  78. Despite the tiny beads of perspiration that trickled down his face, he was livid, and the fingers in the hot leathern mit trembled and twitched.

  79. His hands trembled so that he could scarcely tie his broken string, and the tears were very near the surface; he had to gulp hard once or twice to keep them back.

  80. She trembled as the vague outline of his big cheeks became clear in the red flame of the match which he held in his hollowed hands.

  81. Then her thin hands trembled on her black dress, and waves of shivering passed over her.

  82. Tears trembled in Annie's eyes, but as she happened at that moment to catch sight of the young man in white, she declared triumphantly that she would choose him.

  83. Then hastily she scribbled a note, but her hand trembled so much that before she had said half what she intended the paper was covered with blotched and blurred lines.

  84. It seemed to be giving way, and she trembled with rage at things that before would not have stirred an unquiet thought in her mind.

  85. Close in their covering roofs lay and trembled the clan, But the aged, red-eyed priest ran forth like a lunatic man; And the village panted to see him in the jewels of death again, In the silver beards of the old and the hair of women slain.

  86. Dawn on its fluted brow painted rainbow light, Close on its pinnacled crown trembled the stars at night.


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