Quaking

Usage examples of atremble.

I did not know him, but I was atremble with the urge to wound someone.

From twenty thousand savage throats rose the awful cries of battle, twenty thousand pairs of reins were loosed, and eighty thousand iron shod hoofs set the earth atremble as they thundered down upon the startled enemy, and from the heights above came the growl of the drums of The Wolf and the eerie howls of his painted horde.

Perion skulked to one side of the others, knees atremble, sniveling with his face in his hands.

Students, even professors, passed the laboratory a little atremble with awe.

The Dowayne named a figure, and I could feel a flutter of excitement set my mother atremble beside me.

My coffee arrived as I lay smoking in the tub, one leg atremble on the cold white shelf.

Merely dazed and exhausted was the youth and his long-used arms atremble, whilst all victorious he supported himself against a stone taller than he and four times as broad.

He answered not, But writhing with intolerable pain, Convulsed in every limb, and all his face Wrought to distortion with the agony, Turned on his lord a look of wild appeal, The secret half atremble on his lips, Livid and quivering, that waited yet For leave -- for leave to utter it -- one sign -- One word -- one little word -- to ease his pain.

By then, as she sat in the little parlor, a teacup atremble on one knee, a plate just balanced on the other, Betsy was beginning to flag.

The air was atremble with lightning and the acrid smell of power gone rogue.

The years had knocked her flat, leaving her knees weak and her hands atremble, a phenomenon that seemed to cause her bitter amusement.

It sailed up the hill on a smooth arc, its great beige bulk all atremble from the unequalness of the land.

Then, renewed herself, Charlotte left her sister atremble with the weight of her sorrows, expecting Martha to still be standing strong, waiting, next time Charlotte needed her.

Every floral unit on the grounds has its pistil aprick and petals atremble in a truly shameless fashion, for the bees are about.