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Tremblingly

Trembling \Trem"bling\, a. Shaking; tottering; quivering. -- Trem"bling*ly, adv.

Trembling poplar (Bot.), the aspen.

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tremblingly

adv. in a trembling manner

Usage examples of "tremblingly".

Rooted to the spot, astonished, almost mad, I tremblingly looked at her, trying to understand what had caused such an extraordinary action.

Now, noses protected by handkerchiefs, we tremblingly invaded the accursed south room which blazed with the warm sun of early afternoon.

Teresa clung tremblingly to her lover at the sight of weapons and the glistening of carbines through the trees.

If she had approached her tremblingly, and with downcast eyes, crushed, as it were, by the weight of this unheard-of condescension on the part of royalty, the queen would have been inclined to pardon her want of birth, and to forget her nameless descent: but the quiet and unconstrained bearing of the newly created countess enraged her.

While Ignat had awaited their birth tremblingly, he mourned their death but little--at any rate they were unnecessary to him.

Then she lit the candle tremblingly, watched the flame gather strength, and opened out the will.

Emily, terrified for the consequence of the indignation, that flashed in his eyes, tremblingly assured him, that Montoni was not at home, and entreated he would endeavour to moderate his resentment.

And lower down the great forest trees arch over it, and the sunbeams trickle through them, and dance in many a quiet pool, turning the far-down sands to gold, brightening majestic tree-ferns, and shining on the fragile polypodium tamariscinum which clings tremblingly to the branches of the graceful waringhan, on a beautiful lygodium which adorns the uncouth trunk of an artocarpus, on glossy ginger-worts and trailing yams, on climbers and epiphytes, and on gigantic lianas which, climbing to the tops of the tallest trees, descend in vast festoons, many of them with orange and scarlet flowers and fruitage, passing from tree to tree, and interlacing the forest with a living network, while selaginellas and lindsayas, and film ferns, and trichomanes radicans drape the rocks in feathery green, along with mosses scarcely distinguishable from ferns.

Although possessed of qualifications for his office so numerous and valuable, he was tremblingly distrustful of his own abilities and exercised his terrible functions with diffidence and hesitation.

Tremblingly I lifted the receiver while horrid visions of 232 ALL THTNGS WISE AND WONDERFUL calving heifers floated before me.

One of the necktied executives bolted his drink and tremblingly crossed himself, and the two young women gagged, and no one at all looked happy.

All that human need, ten and thirty-five-dollar checks tremblingly enclosed, the rage, power fantasies, sexual speculations, unified gravity theories, and texts on the Apocalypse skimmed by the underpaid Youth of America, the reports synchronically indulgent and dismissive.