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  • Ronnie heard the tremulousness of her own voice.   (source)
    tremulousness = shakiness (trembling or quivering)
  • Isabelle smiled down at him tremulously.   (source)
    tremulously = with quivering (shakiness)
  • Derby was imagining letters to home, his lips working tremulously.   (source)
    tremulously = with quivering
  • And from his lips came a soft, tremulous sigh.   (source)
    tremulous = quivering (shaky)
  • and Lucy went with him, laying a rather tremulous hand on his mane.   (source)
    tremulous = quivering (usually from fear)
  • He had managed, with a heroic effort, to hold down the mounting pressure of his hilarity; but "sweet mother" (in the Savage's tremulous tone of anguish) and the reference to Tybalt lying dead, but evidently uncremated and wasting his phosphorus on a dim monument, were too much for him.   (source)
    tremulous = quivering (shaky)
  • Call oh small boy, with the long tremulous cry that echoes over the hills.   (source)
  • Her voice took me by surprise; it didn't match her face at all; it was musical and slightly tremulous.   (source)
    tremulous = shaky (quivering)
  • And the night before he was to go back to school he went up to bed tremulous with excitement.   (source)
    tremulous = quivering (shaky)
  • A ragged, ebony giant, squatted on the floor in one of the aisles, watched the orator with burning eyes and tremulous face until the supreme burst of applause came, and then the tears ran down his face.   (source)
    tremulous = quivering
  • In the grass, white daisies were tremulous.   (source)
    tremulous = quivering (shaky)
  • To be sure, I laughed over this; but it was rather tremulous laughter;   (source)
    tremulous = nervous (quivering or shaky)
  • ...with every successive Sabbath, his cheek was paler and thinner, and his voice more tremulous than before...   (source)
    tremulous = unsteady
  • The once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance.   (source)
    tremulous = quivering (shaky)
  • Now he's in focus, at the far end, each detail distinct — eye, mouth, hand — though tremulous, like a reflection on a shivering pool.†   (source)
  • She took a tremulous breath.†   (source)
  • Her voice was hot and tremulous.†   (source)
  • My voice, uncharacteristically tremulous, broke into the silence.†   (source)
  • Tremulous, Langdon walked to the edge and peered down into the Louvre's sprawling underground complex, aglow with amber light.†   (source)
  • Thomas took a tremulous glance back at the shredded madman at the window, then looked away immediately, wishing he hadn't reminded his brain of the blood and torn flesh, the insane eyes, the hysterical screaming.†   (source)
  • He perched in the stand, both hands wrapped around the head of his cane now, a tremulous and gangling old man.†   (source)
  • Lydia's wheelchair would malfunction the instant Germaine took tremulous command of it.†   (source)
  • She had smiled then, a smile so tremulous and sweet that it cut the heart out of him.†   (source)
  • It was a kind of moan, weak and tremulous.†   (source)
  • At her brilliant eyes and tremulous smile her two daughters stared in unbelief.†   (source)
  • He gave up and said tremulously, "I was going to hunt down the strangers and kill them."†   (source)
  • My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer and tremulous into the circle of light our fire had made.†   (source)
  • When Jaime met Miguel in a neighborhood cafe, all his suspicion was swept away be a wave of sympathy, because the man across the table from him nervously stirring his coffee was not the petulant extremist bully he had expected, but a tremulous, sensitive young man who was fighting off tears as he described the symptoms of his sister's illness.†   (source)
  • But before she could thank him for the visit, he placed his hat over his heart, tremulous and dignified, and the abscess that had sustained his life finally burst.†   (source)
  • The gun clicked, and I opened my mouth to scream, but all that came out was a tremulous sob.†   (source)
  • "Now, you two—" Ralph begins with a tremulous smile.†   (source)
  • She clears her throat, but it doesn't help her tremulous voice.†   (source)
  • Yves always seemed, a moment before the act, tentative and tremulous; not like a girl—like a boy: and this strangely innocent waiting, this virile helplessness, always engendered in Eric a positive storm of tenderness.†   (source)
  • He is so tremulous that when he brings a glass of water to his lips, he has spilled most of it before he can take a sip.†   (source)
  • "You really think so?" says Fran tremulously.†   (source)
  • I could hear them in the kitchen, her voice quiet and tremulous, his soothing.†   (source)
  • "That!" cried Laurella Passmore, taking it up with angrily tremulous fingers.†   (source)
  • When she does, her voice is tremulous.†   (source)
  • I felt Marian hanging a sort of tremulous gawk over the padded edge of the basket.†   (source)
  • As Yossarian watched, the burning plane floated over on its side and began spiraling down slowly in wide, tremulous, narrowing circles, its huge flaming burden blazing orange and flaring out in back like a long, swirling cape of fire and smoke.†   (source)
  • He ran a tremulous finger along the edge of his goatee.†   (source)
  • On July 25, having received no further news from Boston, Adams addressed a letter to the General Court of Massachusetts requesting a leave of absence, and to James Warren, who as Speaker of the General Court could help arrange such a leave, he declared, "My face is grown pale, my eyes weak and inflamed, my nerves tremulous, my mind as weak as water."†   (source)
  • It was a female voice, tremulous.†   (source)
  • As I requested a tremulous Linda to sit, Sukeena retreated toward the door-she never presumes, another of her lovely qualitiesand I bid her to remain with us.†   (source)
  • I strode along, hearing the cartman's song become a lonesome, broad-toned whistle now that flowered at the end of each phrase into a tremulous, blue-toned chord.†   (source)
  • "Object?" said the visitor, with a high-pitched and tremulous laugh.†   (source)
  • She was startled to discover, as her hand reached for the gold piece, that she felt the eager, desperate, tremulous hope of a young girl on her first job: the hope that she would be able to deserve it.†   (source)
  • He lit another cigarette with tremulous fingers.†   (source)
  • The tremulous surface of each serving glimmered jewel-like, and Joe wondered fleetingly if something had been in the wine—poison, chemical, drug.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were cast downward, and as the door swung open a little, I took her hands cupped weakly into fists and she let me open them and hold them, her hands in my own tremulous hands.†   (source)
  • When a few weeks had gone by, the seed sprouted; tender shoots appeared, thrusting upwards with increasing strength, and soon we were able to transplant the seedlings one by one, and at first they stood out singly, slender, tremulous spires with spaces between: but grew and grew and soon were merged into one thick green field of rustling paddy.†   (source)
  • Shamron raised his cigarette to his lips with a tremulous hand.†   (source)
  • But apprehension was loose in the room; it created a tremulous, undirected energy that danced above the crowd like phosphorous on a night sea.†   (source)
  • She could speak of the death of Lincoln, and epitomize all the sorrow in the world by telling about an old man, at the Contraband Hospital at Fortress Monroe, who, hearing that Lincoln was dead, lifted his tremulous old voice in prayer: "We kneel upon the ground, with our faces in our hands, and our hands in the dust, and cry to Thee for mercy, O Lord, this evening."†   (source)
  • Laughter rose in their eyes, higher and higher, filling them, and hovering there in tremulous balance.†   (source)
  • And all of the things that were to come after
    Sprang up in the distance as a strange prevision:
    All the thoughts of the ages, all the dreams, all the worlds,
    All the future of galleries and of museums,
    All the pranks of goblins, all the works of the workers of miracles,
    All the yule trees on earth, all the dreams of small children,
    All the warm glow of tremulous candles, all chains,
    All the magnificence of brightly hued tinsel....
    (Ever more cruel, more raging, the wind blew from the plain.)†   (source)
  • And she laid down the law that the name of Don Mclnnis and the name of Asphodel were not to cross our lips again.... The prodigious columns shone down and appeared tremulous with the tender light of summer which enclosed them all around, in equal and shadowless flame.†   (source)
  • A massive but lonely figure on the Senate floor, Lucius Lamar spoke in a quiet yet powerful voice, a voice which "grew tremulous with emotion, as his body fairly shook with agitation": Mr. President: Between these resolutions and my convictions there is a great gulf.†   (source)
  • All this during the second in which Powell again kissed Maria's brow with chaste devotion and gently disengaged himself from her tremulous grasp.†   (source)
  • The voice was almost tremulous with enthusiasm.   (source)
  • "Oh, don't, do-on't," she protested in a voice made grotesquely tremulous by his shaking.   (source)
    tremulous = shaky
  • Her voice is strong, young, tremulous and clear, rapt with its own timbre and volume, the fan still moving steadily up and down, whispering the useless air.   (source)
    tremulous = quivering (shaky)
  • An almost naked Indian was very slowly climbing down the ladder from the first-floor terrace of a neighboring house–rung after rung, with the tremulous caution of extreme old age.   (source)
    tremulous = timid or fearful (perhaps even shaky due to the slowness)
  • Rich with a wealth of harmonics, their tremulous chorus mounted towards a climax, louder and ever louder–until at last, with a wave of his hand, the conductor let loose the final shattering note of ether-music and blew the sixteen merely human blowers clean out of existence.   (source)
    tremulous = quivering
  • From time to time he stretched out his arms as though he were on the Cross, and held them thus through long minutes of an ache that gradually increased till it became a tremulous and excruciating agony; held them, in voluntary crucifixion, while he repeated, through clenched teeth (the sweat, meanwhile, pouring down his face), "Oh, forgive me!"   (source)
    tremulous = quivering (shaky)
  • As he led her over the threshold of the laboratory, Georgiana was cold and tremulous.   (source)
  • The trying nature of his position drove the blood from his cheek, and made his lips tremulous.   (source)
    tremulous = quiver
  • "Hush, Hester—hush!" said he, with tremulous solemnity.   (source)
    tremulous = quivering (trembling)
  • The minister tremulously, but decidedly, repelled the old man's arm.   (source)
    tremulously = with quivering (shakiness)
  • ...the musicians looked at each other and smiled as if at their own nervousness and folly, and made whispering vows, each to the other, that the next chiming of the clock should produce in them no similar emotion; and then, after the lapse of sixty minutes ... there came yet another chiming of the clock, and then were the same disconcert and tremulousness and meditation as before.   (source)
    tremulousness = fear (often shown through a quivering voice)
  • But the bride's cold fingers quivered in the tremulous hand of the bridegroom, and her deathlike paleness caused a whisper that the maiden who had been buried a few hours before was come from her grave to be married.   (source)
    tremulous = quivering (shaky)
  • More than once he had cleared his throat, and drawn in the long, deep, and tremulous breath, which, when sent forth again, would come burdened with the black secret of his soul.   (source)
  • The young minister, on ceasing to speak had withdrawn a few steps from the group, and stood with his face partially concealed in the heavy folds of the window-curtain; while the shadow of his figure, which the sunlight cast upon the floor, was tremulous with the vehemence of his appeal.   (source)
    tremulous = trembling (shaky)
  • "There is truth in what she says," began the minister, with a voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful, insomuch that the hall re-echoed and the hollow armour rang with it—"truth in what Hester says, and in the feeling which inspires her!"   (source)
    tremulous = quivering (unsteady)
  • He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.   (source)
    tremulous = quivering (shaky)
  • He was a person of very striking aspect, with a white, lofty, and impending brow; large, brown, melancholy eyes, and a mouth which, unless when he forcibly compressed it, was apt to be tremulous, expressing both nervous sensibility and a vast power of self restraint.   (source)
    tremulous = unsteady
  • It was with fear, and tremulously, and, as it were, by a slow, reluctant necessity, that Arthur Dimmesdale put forth his hand, chill as death, and touched the chill hand of Hester Prynne.   (source)
    tremulously = with quivering (shakiness)
  • Vittoria was moving toward them, her gait as tremulous as her words.†   (source)
  • She says this tremulously, as if any letter for Simon must be tragic in content.†   (source)
  • "Oh," she said, tremulously, barely able to make a voice, "Oh, Mariam."†   (source)
  • A tremulous, disembodied voice replied somewhere up ahead.†   (source)
  • We've missed you!" said Hermione tremulously.†   (source)
  • I hated the way my voiced sounded, tremulous and weak.†   (source)
  • "She's agreed!" he said, his voice tremulous with suppressed excitement—"We're leaving, Laila.†   (source)
  • Jack's voice went up, tremulous yet determined, pushing against the uncooperative silence.†   (source)
  • She's the tremulous heart of everything, tucked into her white bed.†   (source)
  • It was so tremulous a confession that it might have inspired pity.†   (source)
  • "Holly and phoenix feather," said Ollivander in a tremulous voice.†   (source)
  • With a tremulous hand, he pointed to the church.†   (source)
  • Her breath caught tremulously, and then she was laughing with Hannah.†   (source)
  • "Your Grace," she called out in a soft, tremulous voice.†   (source)
  • I've written about this group," he said, his voice tremulous with excitement.†   (source)
  • His anxiety faded, and a tremulous smile crept across his face.†   (source)
  • "Can it be — John?" she breathed tremulously.†   (source)
  • He wiped his mouth with the back of his tremulous hand.†   (source)
  • A tremulous smile touched his face as his hand groped for hers.†   (source)
  • Sam gave a tremulous nod, working up his courage with a visible effort.†   (source)
  • She considered what he'd said, then offered a tremulous smile.†   (source)
  • "A monster," she whispered, so tremulously she could scarcely hear her own voice.†   (source)
  • I smile, tremulous with relief, with gratitude.†   (source)
  • The old man gave a tremulous nod, mopping at his brow with the sleeve of his robe.†   (source)
  • Her one-armed serjeant, from the tremulous sound of his knock.†   (source)
  • It was tremulous, as if someone had strummed the low strings of a harp.†   (source)
  • White and red, tremulous, on tiptoe, the eager soul looking out of her face, she was very beautiful.†   (source)
  • This kind of attention from them makes me tremulous.†   (source)
  • The drum was as tremulous as a maiden's heart, the pipes high and sweet and beckoning.†   (source)
  • Septon Cellador began to sing as well, his voice tremulous and thick with wine.†   (source)
  • Gates was barely audible, his thin voice tremulous.†   (source)
  • Her voice sounded small and thin and tremulous in her ears.†   (source)
  • As he started he could hear d'Anjou's voice; it was weak and tremulous, but nevertheless defiant.†   (source)
  • He seemed less choleric today, and even managed a sort of tremulous smile.†   (source)
  • She could tell from my first tremulous sound.†   (source)
  • She was so tremulous and bent over with age, but her joy in life was unchanged.†   (source)
  • "And I do hope," said Lucy in a tremulous voice, "that you will all come with me.†   (source)
  • "What is it, messieurs?" he cried, his voice tremulous.†   (source)
  • She finally laid a tremulous hand on his arm.†   (source)
  • My memory is tremulous, like water breathed on.†   (source)
  • The ancient friend replied in a tremulous voice, speaking French.†   (source)
  • Didn't she?" echoed the mother, with a tremulous half-smile.†   (source)
  • Johnnie was on her knees beside the child, feeling her over with tremulous hands.†   (source)
  • The sounds that so tremulously came from the striving of the lips were welcome and sweet to her.†   (source)
  • For a moment Harry had the strangest feeling that she wanted to say something to him; She gave him an odd, tremulous look and seemed to teeter on the edge of speech, but then, with a little of her head, she hustled out of the room after he husband and son.†   (source)
  • Slowly, tremulously, Dudley nodded.†   (source)
  • Then Colonel Aureliano Buendia stopped, tremulous, avoided the arms of his mother, and fixed a stern look on her eyes.†   (source)
  • She could smile and cry at the same time, one tear or two sliding gracefully down her cheek, as if on cue, as her voice lifted through its highest notes, tremulous, effortless.†   (source)
  • He does not detect in this young woman even a scrap of the tremulous little creature he had found behind a curtain six years before.†   (source)
  • When Aunt Petunia put a quarter of unsweetened grapefruit onto Dudley's plate with a tremulous "There you are, Diddy darling," Dudley glowered at her.†   (source)
  • He cannot continue to live alone in this house with his landlady: especially not such a tremulous landlady, and one deserted by her husband.†   (source)
  • Mrs Weasley smiled tremulously.†   (source)
  • Again the tremulous smile, of a beggar, the weakeyed blinking, the gaze upwards, through the round steel-rimmed glasses, towards the back of the classroom, as if the green-painted plaster ceiling were opening and God on a cloud of Pink Pearl face powder were coming down through the wires and sprinkler plumbing.†   (source)
  • When Kabuo approached from one side the boy had stared up at him and spoke through clenched teeth in tremulous German.†   (source)
  • I took hold of one of the beakers, leaned over, lowered the lid just as much as I needed to and tremulously dipped the beaker into Parker's Pond, four feet from his back paws.†   (source)
  • She caught sight of Mr. Diggory's feet, and slowly, tremulously, raised her eyes to stare up into his face; then, more slowly still, she looked up into the sky.†   (source)
  • tremulous in the light of dawn.†   (source)
  • Dumbledore's smile was tremulous.†   (source)
  • The director, with tremulous effort, lifted his arm and pulled a small device off the arm of his wheelchair.†   (source)
  • The twins, holding tremulously to each other, dared the few yards to the next shelter and spread the dreadful news.†   (source)
  • At other times I feel a strong urge to join in, to contribute; to link my own tremulous voice to the anonymous chorus of truncated serenades, scrawled love letters, lewd advertisements, hymns and curses.†   (source)
  • And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the string...ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1850.†   (source)
  • She remained motionless against him, trembling with surprise and fear, unable to believe the evidence, and finally she turned her head and looked at him with a tremulous smile.†   (source)
  • But on the edge of the abyss he came out of his ecstasy, moved her hand away, sat up, and said in a tremulous voice: "Be careful, we have no rubbers."†   (source)
  • Two new flowers had unexpectedly sprouted in her life, and, as Mariam watched the snow coming down, she pictured Mullah Faizullah twirling his tasbeh beads, leaning in and whispering to her in his soft, tremulous voice, But it is God Who has planted them, Mariam jo.†   (source)
  • Mortati's voice was tremulous.†   (source)
  • She smiles tremulously.†   (source)
  • At his side, in complete mourning, tremulous, hardly moving, but very much in control of herself, Fermina Daza received condolences with no great display of feeling until eleven the following morning, when she bade farewell to her husband from the portico, waving goodbye with a handkerchief.†   (source)
  • The upsetting feeling of certainty stopped her from seeing the man she was kissing, but she managed to hear his tremulous voice in the midst of the deafening shouts and laughter of the audience.†   (source)
  • It was not easy to know who was more constrained, the doctor with his chaste touch or the patient in the silk chemise with her virgin's modesty, but neither one looked the other in the eye; instead, he asked questions in an impersonal voice and she responded in a tremulous voice, both of them very conscious of the man sitting in the shadows.†   (source)
  • She had made this sudden discovery with the clarity of a revelation when, trailing her endless bridal train behind her, she had entered the vast salon of the Social Club, where the air was thin with the mingled scent of so many flowers, the brilliance of the waltzes, the tumult of perspiring men and tremulous women who looked at her not knowing how they were going to exorcise the dazzling menace that had come to them from the outside world.†   (source)
  • To be sure, her smile was a shade tremulous when her brothers took their leave of her on the deck of the Seaswift, but the girl knew the proper words to say, and she said them with courage and dignity.†   (source)
  • 'Yes, I imagine that is possible,' he said tremulously, now whipping his head, first to one side, then the other.†   (source)
  • He takes the last tremulous step and he's suddenly clasping forearms with the old man who keeps saving his life.†   (source)
  • She smiled tremulously and laid a hand over his, then returned to washing and began to scrub with renewed vigor.†   (source)
  • Cherryl's answer was no more than a faint, tremulous crease of her mouth, as if, together, they had completed a single smile.†   (source)
  • Just as they felt that balloon sift down like an autumn rain, so she could feel their souls disinhabit, reinhabit their tremulous nostrils.†   (source)
  • Each tremulous brownout reminded Joe of the pulsing lights at the Delmann house, and his skin prickled with dread.†   (source)
  • Did or did he not perceive, with the tremulous tip of eyelash if not the eye, their passage through, their wait beyond, warm wax amongst cold, waiting to be key-wound by terrors, run free in panics?†   (source)
  • As the younger man retreated with his tremulous smiles to a shadowy corner, the sensualist sat on the foot of the bed, opposite Barbara.†   (source)
  • She thought that no man of the outer world would have said this to her at this moment-she thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy-she felt a stab of revulsion against that code, suddenly seeing its full ugliness for the first timeshe felt an enormous pride for the tight, clean face of the man before her-he saw the shape of her mouth drawn firm in self-control, yet softened by some tremulous emotion, while she answered quietly, "Thank you.†   (source)
  • Lysa Arryn smiled tremulously.†   (source)
  • Beyond-salvage...A face came to her, a face with tears running down his cheeks, muted cries of mercy in his tremulous voice, a once-close friend of a young foreign service officer and his wife and children in a remote outpost called Phnom Penh.†   (source)
  • Webb walked along the cold, rocky beach, never for an instant forgetting what had happened, but whether it was the change of scene, or the wind, or the incessant, repetitive sounds of the pounding ocean, he found himself breathing more steadily every bit as deeply, as tremulously, as before but without the higher registers of hysteria.†   (source)
  • Here the akimbo Skeleton one might play like a piccolo; here the Blimp who could be punctured every night, pumped up at dawn; here the midget known as The Wart who could be mailed parcel post dirt-cheap; and next to him an even littler accident of cell and time, a Dwarf so small and perched in such a way you could not see his face behind the cards clenched before him in arthritic and tremulous oak-gnarled fingers.†   (source)
  • Gray turned and looked into the flushed, tremulous face beside him with a sudden tightening in his throat.†   (source)
  • Her deep eyes glowed; red was again in the fresh lips that parted over the white teeth in an adorable, tremulous smile.†   (source)
  • As she left the mill those sultry evenings, with the heat mists still tremulous over the valley and heat lightnings bickering in the west, she went with a lagging step up the village street, not looking, as had been her wont, first toward the far blue mountains, and then at the glorious state of the big valley.†   (source)
  • She continually huddled the light cape together at the neck with tremulous, unsteady fingers; and it was characteristic of these two that, although the woman had heard of the calamity at the Victory mill the night before, and knew that Shade came directly from the Himes home, she made no inquiry as to the welfare of Deanie, and he offered no information.†   (source)
  • "Pap, he's gone," the poor woman went on tremulously, "an' the evil what he done—or wanted to do—is a thing that I reckon you can afford to forget.†   (source)
  • As I recall, your favorite..."There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done.†   (source)
  • My voice grew tremulous and enraged, and it suddenly felt as if I were shouting from within a box with madmen surrounding me, ignoring me, and taunting me with their silence.†   (source)
  • Behind Poteete's eyes, the hive of terror was looseon him and each cell in his brain had become wasp-winged and deadly, each cell was hourglass-shaped, and each cell, tremulous with the diminutive thunder of hornets, felt the power of flight and the invulnerability of the swarm.†   (source)
  • Off in the thick of the woods came a fairy sound, followed by a tremulous silence, a holding apart of the air.†   (source)
  • She walks tentatively, as if blind, but her eyes are wide open, fixed upon DuPont with the timorousness, the tremulousness, the pale and silent appeal, which Simon — he now realizes — has been hoping for in vain.†   (source)
  • With a tremulous murmur that sounded like 'My Saviour!' she extended her arms towards the screen.†   (source)
  • "On a hunnder 'n' twenny six Boddeh Stritt," he answered tremulously.†   (source)
  • Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute.†   (source)
  • Eliza waved to him and smiled tremulously; she turned back into the house sniffling, with wet eyes.†   (source)
  • He caught sight of me, and I gave him a weak, rather tremulous smile.†   (source)
  • "I like these days better," she said but her voice was tremulous.†   (source)
  • A tremulous gasp of after-weeping shook her.†   (source)
  • Eliza smiled at swagger and boast, her proud, pleased, tremulous sad smile.†   (source)
  • He sighed tremulously, lifted his head, and with body pivoting on fixed feet, gazed about him.†   (source)
  • You know," she continued with her tremulous smile, "as the darkey says, we're pore-folks."†   (source)
  • Her eyes grew misty at once, her lips began to work tremulously in a bitter self-pitying smile.†   (source)
  • She took a breath as if taking courage, and tremulously, "I'm sorry, Albert, I was so stupid.†   (source)
  • In the dark he knew that she was smiling tremulously at him, pursing her lips.†   (source)
  • A world of incomparable refinements still lingered tremulously in porcelain and varnish, yielding an instant of emotion before its dissolution into purest thought.†   (source)
  • He takes my devotion; he accepts my tremulous, no doubt abject offering, mixed with contempt as it is for his mind.†   (source)
  • He pulled out a red bandanna handkerchief and handed it to her and she wiped her eyes and began to smile tremulously.†   (source)
  • But I was thinking; feeling; living; those two lives that the two halves symbolized with the intensity, the muffled intensity, which a butterfly or moth feels when with its sticky tremulous legs and antennae it pushes out of the chrysalis and emerges and sits quivering beside the broken case for a moment; its wings still creased; its eyes dazzled, incapable of flight.†   (source)
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