All 7 Uses of
tremulous
in
War and Peace
- The sound of voices, the tramping feet, the horses' hoofs moving in mud, the crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble.†
Chpt 2 *
- You do not know Him, but He is here, He is in me, He is in my words, He is in thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!" pronounced the Mason in a stern and tremulous voice.†
Chpt 5
- That tremulous expression on Natasha's face, prepared either for despair or rapture, suddenly brightened into a happy, grateful, childlike smile.†
Chpt 6
- She felt in her heart a devout and tremulous awe at the thought of the punishment that overtakes men for their sins, and especially of her own sins, and she prayed to God to forgive them all, and her too, and to give them all, and her too, peace and happiness.†
Chpt 9
- The man in the frieze coat was reading the broadsheet of August 31 When the crowd collected round him he seemed confused, but at the demand of the tall lad who had pushed his way up to him, he began in a rather tremulous voice to read the sheet from the beginning.†
Chpt 11
- She spoke in a soft, tremulous voice, and in the weary eyes that looked over her spectacles Sonya read all that the countess meant to convey with these words.†
Chpt 12
- "O Lord, my Creator, Thou has heard our prayer…." said he in a tremulous voice with folded hands.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(tremulous) quivering (unsteady or shaky) -- usually from weakness or fear -- especially of the voice