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Example sentences for "trembling hand"

  • He rang with a trembling hand; the maid opened the door, and uttered a cry of joy when she saw who it was.

  • CallĂ© decided at last, albeit with regret, to take his head from under the seat; he had the opera glass, and presented it to the young lady with a trembling hand.

  • Thanks, mamzelle," replied Sans-Cravate, taking the paper with a trembling hand.

  • She reached out a trembling hand toward me and then shrinkingly drew it back.

  • I held it with a trembling hand as I glanced over the fateful words that commissioned me to go at once to the Arctic.

  • Then she raised a trembling hand and, pointing an accusing finger at me, she cried in a piercing voice: "You are not Karl Armstadt, but an impostor posing as Karl Armstadt!

  • D'Aigrigny dashed off a few words, with a trembling hand.

  • Rodin--Rodin himself--recoiled two steps, and replaced the casket on the table with a trembling hand.

  • Frances took the letter with a trembling hand.

  • When it reached the momentous hour, he unsealed the envelope with a trembling hand.

  • By way of answer she sat down by the table and wrote a few hasty lines with a trembling hand, then gave them to Pierre, whose eyes sparkled with joy.

  • You are right," said the queen at once; and going up to a table she signed the parchment with a trembling hand.

  • The would-be nurse looked round and saw a jug of water, towards which the dying man extended a trembling hand.

  • I took the paper with a trembling hand, and tore it open.

  • I opened it with a trembling hand, and to my inexpressible delight, discovered Charles's letter to the head of the Ecole Polytechnique, together with a letter of credit and two cheques on his banker.

  • While uttering these words, he had accompanied the bewildered little man to the door, opened it with a trembling hand, and closed it by no means gently behind him.

  • That he had done this, Balder had written with a trembling hand on a scrap of paper, for which he asked Edwin as soon as he awoke, as if by his written testimony to remove all suspicion of any other cause.

  • He rose and dragged himself to the turning lathe, wherewith a trembling hand be unlocked the drawer.

  • Agnes sat down, and turned the leaves with a trembling hand.

  • Augusta sprang forward, scarcely waiting to go through the customary form of introduction, and took the letter with a trembling hand.

  • Dickon, solemnly, as he crossed himself with a trembling hand, "for the foul fiend himself hath been among us in the likeness of our king!

  • Then darting out of the closet, she shut the door and stood leaning against the wall pressing her trembling hand to her heart, as if to control it.

  • With a stroke of the scalpel Rene opened the hound's body and with his two hands removed the stomach, while Charles, one knee on the floor, held the light with clenched and trembling hand.

  • Together with his trousers, the concierge handed him a bulky sealed package, which Dubourg took with a trembling hand, supposing it to be a bundle of summonses or judgments; of executions and levies he had no fear.

  • Frederic climbed the hill to the road, holding the poor girl's trembling hand in his.

  • After ten days, they received a reply from the count; it was addressed to Monsieur Menard, but it was Frederic who, with a trembling hand, broke the seal.

  • I seized it with a trembling hand; my eyes swam, my heart beat, and my legs refused their office.

  • While my eye glanced over the note, I held the packet with a trembling hand.

  • He approached the sofa without speaking, and imprinted a paternal kiss on Julie's trembling hand.

  • I thought to gain courage by gaining time; at last I unbuttoned my coat, drew out the little volume, and presented it humbly with a trembling hand to M.

  • And, reaching over, Daddy seized it, and turned over the pages with a trembling hand.

  • She held out a trembling hand, made a little cry.

  • More and more candles did she light with a trembling hand, trusting devoutly that no one would come in and discover her with such an extravagant illumination.

  • Old Barbier sat down swearing, poked the fire furiously, and then, taking out a huge red handkerchief, wiped his brow with a trembling hand.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trembling hand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute beauty; another place; capture the; cause thee; certain characters; chemical elements; filled away; fresh provisions; miserable existence; modern date; much employed; nice point; poor health; scientific basis; seems rather; shilling piece; silver dollar; single plant; small building; taking possession; trembling from; trembling hand; trembling voice; wash them