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Tremulously

Tremulous \Trem"u*lous\, a. [L. tremulus, fr. tremere to tremble. See Tremble.]

  1. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.

  2. Affected with fear or timidity; trembling.

    The tender, tremulous Christian.
    --Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster] -- Trem"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Trem"u*lous*ness, n.

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tremulously

adv. 1 In a trembling, quivering, or shaking manner. 2 In a timid, hesitant, or unconfident manner.

WordNet
tremulously

adv. in a tremulous manner; "the leaves rustled tremulously in the wind"

Usage examples of "tremulously".

At the door she stopped just long enough to give Prew a very disapproving look and to let him see her smile tremulously shyly at Bill.

Madame Chamont, who, from the hints dropped in the letter, too well guessed the cause, after a fruitless attempt to recompose her feelings, inquired tremulously if they had arrived too late?

TD engineers Turpin managed to kneel down and crawl tremulously after Woodbine.

At the edge of the water, the burdock, caught up by the tide, struggled to get free, the unsubmerged tops swaying tremulously above the water.

Glancing sideways I saw something strange, something anomalous: a girl, a plump little bobbysoxer, edging tremulously down the bar towards me.

But since my communicator seems to have the leisure, I may go in for it again-" "Sir, all tonight's decodes are on your desk," said Keggs tremulously, "and I did two and a half engineering assignments this evening-" "Could you interrupt your game long enough to let Captain Queeg and myself have a little fresh coffee?

Crevan Allyn played his part to perfection, never guessing how he helped screen Camber from too close a scrutiny as Camber's grandson came forward in his turn, to kneel tremulously before the king.

A child and a man may often be seen together in a maniap': the man sings and gesticulates, the child stands before him with streaming tears and tremulously copies him in act and sound.

Tremulously a rappoor threaded through a melodic phrase and stilled itself.

The dawns broke cool, fresh, fragrant, sweet, and rosy, with a breeze that seemed of heaven rather than earth, and the air seemed tremulously full of the murmur of falling water and the melody of mocking birds.

Perhaps on some new mission we'll find something different, something striking, something wholly inexplicable with the ordinary tools of planetary science-and tremulously, cautiously, we will inch toward a biological explanation.

The regular time variation of the radio emission from quasars and, especially, pulsars had at first been thought, tentatively, tremulously, to be a kind of announcement signal from someone else, or perhaps a radio navigation beacon for exotic ship that plied the spaces between the stars.

After the judge's decision has been enacted, its effect carried out upon her, reducing her to the status of goods, sometimes publicly, that she may be suitably disgraced, sometimes privately, by a contract slaver, that the sensitivities of free women in the city not be offended, she is hooded and transported, stripped and chained, freshly branded and collared, a property female, slave cargo, to a distant market where, once sold, she will begin her life anew, fearfully, as a purchased girl, tremulously as the helpless and lowly slave she now is.