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

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

  Gabriel and the Hour Book

• “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

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

  Internet Archive: The Poems of Ossian

• “-- 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

• “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

• “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

• “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,

• “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

• “He gently trembles them, and his fingers vibrate her scalp.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Bushman Way of Tracking God

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