tremblings

The first thing I did was to got the buck fever, and I leave it to any fair-minded person if buck fever, with its attendant heart-palpitations and arm-tremblings, is the right condition for a man to be in who is endeavouring to pose as an old hand at the business.

Chapter 17 1913

The first thing I did was to got the buck fever, and I leave it to any fair-minded person if buck fever, with its attendant heart-palpitations and arm-tremblings, is the right condition for a man to be in who is endeavouring to pose as an old hand at the business.

Chapter 17 1911

And Leclère, with fiendish ken, seemed to divine each particular nerve and heartstring, and with long wails and tremblings and sobbing minors to make it yield up its last shred of grief.

BÂTARD 2010

A white froth flecked his lips, and his body was convulsed with shiverings and tremblings.

THE MASTER OF MYSTERY 2010

For them there was nothing left — no more tremblings and flutterings and delicious anguishes, no more throbbing and pulsing, and sighing and song.

WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010

"Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro,/And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress,/And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago/Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness".

Ten of the best balls in literature John Mullan 2010

  And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress,

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

I have seen him, in his crying fits and tremblings, try to kiss her hand; and I have heard him call her “Meg,” and say it was her nineteenth birthday.

The Chimes 2007

These two works detail the consequences of this unhappy habit — loss of strength, impotence, weakness of the stomach and intestines, tremblings, vertigo, lethargy, and often premature death.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

On the eighth, all the symptoms were exacerbated; the tremblings were again constant; urine, from the beginning to the eighth day, thin, and devoid of color; substances floating in it, cloudy.

Of The Epidemics 2007