tremulous

• “Pool clapped his hands, and the little maid ran out of the house to him in tremulous, fluttery haste.”

  The Bones of Kahekili

• “In the first gush of our sorrow and our indignation because of this atrocity, we waited not for any official prompting to pour forth our grief in tremulous, glowing words of mingled emotion, as the irrepressible bidding of our hearts draped our homes and our sanctuaries in the weeds of a national funeral.”

  A Discourse in Memory of our Late President, Abraham Lincoln

• “He spoke – but no soft voice in tremulous whispers, replied.”

  The Old Manor House

• “I recalled the tremulous hand that he had offered me.”

  The Eye of Osiris

• “Greatly daring, he had himself written to Veranilda; in brief terms, but every word tremulous with his passion.”

  Veranilda

• “She lowered her eyelids, and the deeper breathing of her bosom gave to her voice when she did speak a tremulous tone: --”

  The Lesser Bourgeoisie

• “But, just a suggestion, I wouldn't use "tremulous" that early in a book, the people picking the book up at the store that are glancing at the first few paragraphs to see if they like the writing may put it down because they may think it's over their heads.”

  HH Com 298

• “As the teacher read on, her color changed, and a kind of tremulous agitation came over her.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860

• “Sauvages, by this just distinction, actually separates this kind of tremulous motion, and which is the kind peculiar to this disease, from the Genus Tremor.”

  An Essay on the Shaking Palsy

• “There was a kind of tremulous defiance in her tone, as if she half expected me to question it.”

  McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908

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