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He stared at its panels, quaking, aghast I won't say any more!"— The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play
I'll warn you in good time Aileen therefore remained on deck for some time with her father, but poor Miss Pritty, on the first intimation that more pirates were in sight, got up hastily, staggered with a face expressive of the utmost horror into the cabin, flung herself into the captain's berth, thrust her head under the pillow, piled the clothes over that, and lay there-- quaking She quaked for full half an hour before anything happened.— Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters
I'll make no sound He dropped his head into his hands--quaking; the lamp, the table, were swimming about him; he had never passed through ten such seconds of dread as those which followed his spell of temerity Yet he lived--and knew himself spared.— The Sins of Séverac Bablon
The rock itself seemed quaking, as the seas with a thundering roar dashed against it.— Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures
He was no fool, my stepsister's first husband, and since a wild and belly-quaking tale was the only one that offered, he was not ready to cast it aside till a better one were found.— Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories

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