What is "trembling"

Usage examples of "trembling".

Even this manner of building, though affording a certain security against slight tremblings, is not safe in the greater shocks.

Her palms had sweated onto the cloth cover of the book and she set it aside, wiping her hands off on her pants, swearing in annoyance as she realized she was trembling.

The boy was trembling with excitement, his bright green eyes sparkling as he drank in the splendid vision of the mounted warriors, their gleaming weapons and splendid accouterments, the restless thaptors pawing at the dust, arching their proud necks restlessly, the brilliant bannerol snapping in a brisk breeze.

Even Bardel could see the boy trembling in anticipation of punishment, saw too that the outlanders had taken a liking to the slender child.

They had it all to themselves, and it was filled with things that Bernard liked--inequalities of level, with mossy steps connecting them, rose-trees trained upon old brick walls, horizontal trellises arranged like Italian pergolas, and here and there a towering poplar, looking as if it had survived from some more primitive stage of culture, with its stiff boughs motionless and its leaves forever trembling.

The bonsai had begun crying, its leaves trembling helplessly, its voice reduced to a sniffling squeak.

The bronc stood there, its legs trembling, its head hanging dejectedly.

She wanted to deny the pure craving exploding between her legs, but when his hot mouth suddenly dropped against her trembling lips she could do nothing but to submit to his seductive assault.

Old Humphries broke through the group by the door, his heavy chops white and trembling, and in that moment Hortensia turned, awe-stricken, to ask her ladyship was this true.

There was chicken cooked in pomegranate juice, and lamb cubed and marinated and broiled in a manner called kabab, and a rose-flavored sharbat cold with snow, and a billowy, trembling confection like a fluffed-up nougat, made of fine white flour, cream, honey, daintily flavored with oil of pistachio, and called a balesh.

Baci waved a trembling hand at the sleeping bodies littering the drawing room.

Giancarlo Lo Manto said that final prayer to his father with tears falling down the sides of his face, his lower lip trembling, head bowed, eyes closed.

He looked back at Lo Manto, his forehead drenched in sweat, his lower lip trembling.

In the open spaces on the slope, beyond the farthest shadow-reach of the manzanita, poised the mariposa lilies, like so many flights of jewelled moths suddenly arrested and on the verge of trembling into flight again.

Leaning on his stick, his form bent by care and age, his eyes downcast, and his steps trembling, the grey-haired Medon slowly approached towards the gladiator.