What is "tremour"

Usage examples of "tremour".

It was true that Hilma had felt a faint tremour of seasickness on the ferry-boat coming from the city to the Oakland mole.

Make the people believe that the faint tremour in their great engine is a menace to its function?

His hair stood upright on his head like the bristles of a pig, the cold sweat ran off his face, and then came a tremour over all his bones, until he thought that he must fall.

As I saw him a tremour ran through me, and every inch of my body quivered under the intensity of my emotion.

They shuddered as the ground, the whole strong edifice, seemed to quiver with earthquake tremour beneath the tremendous thuds of the tireless Briareus.

Agitated like the commonest of wretches, destitute of self-control, not able to preserve a decent mask, be, accustomed to inflict these emotions and tremours upon others, was at once the puppet and dupe of an intriguing girl.

Expectant, therefore, she watched the one glowing cheek of Hymen, and with pleasing tremours beheld a cab of many boxes draw up by her bit of garden, and a gentleman emerge from it in the set of consulting an advertisement paper.

Convulsive tremours assailed him, and hilarious sobs escaped at intervals from his tortured frame.

He looked at her dear face, grown so pale--viewed her wasting form--watched her loss of appetite, and nervous tremours, with an impatient agony that irritated his wound, and brought back malady on himself.

She could more easily have uttered the words to Captain Dartrey, after her remembered abashing holy tremour of the vision of doing it and casting herself on noblest man's compassionateness.

Showers of painful blissfulness went through her, as the tremours of a shocked frame, while she sat quietly, showing scarce a sign.