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  • adverb In a tremorous manner.

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tremorous +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • It moved very slowly, and very tremorously, and it clutched the door, let go, clutched again ...

    wilberteets Diary Entry wilberteets 2003

  • In a gentle kiss, in which their hovering souls only glided tremorously from afar to meet each other with fluttering wings, he took from her yielding lips the seal of her pure love.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Various 1910

  • "How glad I am to see you again!" she sighed tremorously, pressing his hand with fervour, gazing at him with furtive directness.

    The Crown of Life George Gissing 1880

  • Basil pulled away the trailing leafage from a marble hemicycle, and, having spread his cloak upon it, begged tremorously that Veranilda would rest.

    Veranilda George Gissing 1880

  • Now Richmond rocked in her high towers to watch the impending issue, but soon the day began to look grey, and a pale moon came tremorously out to watch the meeting squadrons.

    Foreign and Colonial News 1865

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