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noun

Trembler n.

One who trembles.

Any of certain West Indian birds of the genera Cinclocerthia and Rhamphocinclus, of the family Mimidae.

(Elec.) The vibrating hammer, or spring contact piece of a hammer break, as of the electric ignition apparatus for an internal-combustion engine.

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Etymology of 'Trembler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Trembler" Quotes from Famous Books

... drew a revolver and from a pocket his watch. He laid them on the table side by side and looked across at the white-lipped trembler ...

— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine

... to her spirit and grateful to her sensibility, were the scenes which her fancy delineated; now she supported an orphan, now softened the sorrows of a widow, now snatched from iniquity the feeble trembler at poverty, and now rescued from shame the proud struggler with disgrace. The prospect at once exalted her hopes, and enraptured her imagination; she regarded herself as an agent of Charity, and already in idea anticipated the rewards of a good and faithful delegate; so ...

— Cecilia Volume 1 • Frances Burney

... soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me ...

— The Three Brontes • May Sinclair

... were, it is a fact that, when I was at Genoa, Signor Gherardi, one of their secretaries of state, very seriously told me, "Monsieur, vous m'avez fait trembler quoique je ne vous ai jamais vu. Sir, you have made me tremble although I never saw you before." And when I smiled and assured him that I was just a simple traveller, he shook his head; but said, he had very authentick information ...

— Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica • James Boswell

... more powerful than his will, who sees daggers in the air and ghosts in the banquet-hall, who has moral weakness and physical courage, and who—as our guest represented him—alternates perpetually between terror and daring—a trembler when oppressed by his conscience, and a warrior when defied by his foe. But in this and in all that numberless crowd of characters which is too fresh in your memories for me to enumerate, we don't so much say ...

— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various

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