"Trembling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reply, but turned her head sharply away, as if in sudden embarrassment. Then, in answer to his conventionally murmured good-byes, she looked back, and he saw her face radiant, alight, with the most beautiful smile trembling on the lips. The splendor of this look seemed to him a mute expression of her happiness—of love reciprocated, ambition realized—and in it he read his own doom. He turned blindly round to pick up ...
— The Spinner's Book of Fiction • Various
... Away went Rose, quite trembling with suspense, but Phebe's door was shut, no light shone underneath, and no sound came from the room within. She tapped and receiving no answer, went on to her own chamber, thinking to herself: "Love ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... lowering of the temperature, clearing of the tongue, and less frequent bowel movements. But in severe cases the patient becomes weaker, with rapid, feeble pulse, ranging from 120 to 140; stupor and muttering delirium; twitching of the wrists and picking at the bedclothes, with general trembling of the muscles in moving; slow, hesitating speech, and emaciation; while the urine and faeces may be passed unconsciously in bed. Occasionally the patient with delirium may require watching to prevent him from getting out of bed and injuring ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) • Various
... shoulder, she saw the eager eyes and the thin, high-coloured face of Oliver Treadwell. For a moment she told herself that he had read her thoughts with his penetrating gaze, which seemed to pierce through her; and she blushed pink while her eyes burned under her trembling lashes. Then the paper bag, containing the tomatoes, burst in her hands, and its contents rolled, one by one, over the littered floor to his feet. Both stooped at once to recover it, and while their hands touched amid wilted cabbage leaves, the girl felt ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow
... doesn't he?" Merritt said when, after considerable fussing, Tubby managed to coax his horse to once more advance, though the animal seemed to be snorting, and trembling. "If we were on the cattle range right now I'd be half inclined to think he smelled ...
— The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields • Lieut. Howard Payson
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