trembled

Meaning

of Tremble

Synonyms

Examples

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science. Henry David Thoreau

From high black walls, gleaming vaguely with rain, Each yellow light looked down like a golden eye. They trembled from coign to coign, and tower to tower, Along high terraces quicker than dream they flew. And some of them steadily glowed, and some soon vanished, And some strange shadows threw. Conrad Aiken

No fear trembled his voice. Well, she reflected, perhaps he was not old enough yet to have really come to believe in death after life. Lois McMaster Bujold

The first ghosts trembled with hope, and their excitement passed back like a ripple over the long line behind them, young children and aged parents alike looking up and ahead with delight and wonder as the first stars they had seen for centuries shone through into their poor starved eyes. Philip Pullman

His mind fell asleep. His wits fell awake. His cock trembled like a harp-string. Mervyn Peake

I was also drunk, crazy and heavily armed at all times. People trembled and cursed when I came into a public room and started screaming in German. Hunter S. Thompson