trembly

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His hands go trembly, and twice he makes a stab at speakin' before he can get the words out.

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  1. Trembling; tremulous. [Colloquial] So frankly coy, so full of trembly confidences. Lowell, Birch Tree. She [a rabbit] sot thar ez upright an' trembly ez me. M. N. Murfree, Great Smoky Mountains, xiii.

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  • I don't know what his metabolism was doing, but my heart was pounding, I felt slightly weak and trembly, and that slightly salty feeling was in the back of my throat - the one you get when you have an animal attraction to someone else. —  XXXX
  • Her father objects to her being weak and trembly, but so far, no one objects to her being a brainless idiot. —  Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog
  • The gal didn't know what ter do; she jes' stood still; but Abs'lom he jes' danced up ter her ez keerless an' gay ez he always war, jes' like she war ennybody else, an' when he held out his han' she gin him hern, all a-trembly, an' lookin' up at him, plumb skeered ter death, her eyes all wide an' sorter wishful, like some wild thing trapped in the woods. —  His "Day In Court" 1895
  • But her voice sounded queer and trembly, and it made echoes that were worse than no sound at all She had to go up two flights of stairs, and as she reached the top of the second flight she was near her own classroom. —  Marjorie's Busy Days
  • His hands go trembly, and twice he makes a stab at speakin' before he can get the words out. —  Torchy, Private Sec.
 

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