trembles

It has often been remarked by strangers that this island trembles, which is undoubtedly true, but the impression is heightened by imagination.

By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler

"Ah," said the Abbot to himself, "if his hand trembles, that is another matter."

Gabriel and the Hour Book Evaleen Stein 1893

It is however no laughing matter with me; thy beauty kills me daily, and I shall think of nothing but thy charms, till the last word trembles on my tongue, and that will be thy name, my love -- the name of my

Liber Amoris, or, the New Pygmalion William Hazlitt 1804

The fword trembles by the fide of Gauf, and longs to glitter in his hand ..

The Poems of Ossian 1784

-- He trembles, that is, he exerts alternately all the muscles of his body, to enfranchise himself from the oppression about his bosom, and begins to breathe with frequent and short respirations; at the same time the cold contracts his red skin, gradually turning it pale; the contents of the bladder and of the bowels are evacuated: and from the experience of these first disagreeable sensations the passion of fear is excited, which is no other than the expectation of disagreeable sensations.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Emperor's favorite, but such as trembles at a raven's croak and piper's din, a fever's touch or a thousand things of like sort!

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus circa 55-135 AD Epictetus

He judged others by Buck's standard, and the bare thought of finding himself alone and a prisoner, in the power of those he would have injured, seemed to give him a case of the "trembles," as

Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School Allen Chapman

I had to write her thanks, and got in a violent fit of the "trembles" at the idea of writing to a stranger.

A Confederate girl's diary, 1913

I say not at the mercy of the Emperor or Emperor’s favourite, but such as trembles at a raven’s croak and piper’s din, a fever’s touch or a thousand things of like sort!

CXLV Epictetus 1909

I had to write her thanks, and got in a violent fit of the "trembles" at the idea of writing to a stranger.

A Confederate Girl's Diary Sarah Morgan Dawson 1875