All 10 Uses of
tremulous
in
The Power and the Glory by Cooke
- "That!" cried Laurella Passmore, taking it up with angrily tremulous fingers.†
Chpt 1 *
- White and red, tremulous, on tiptoe, the eager soul looking out of her face, she was very beautiful.†
Chpt 3
- Her deep eyes glowed; red was again in the fresh lips that parted over the white teeth in an adorable, tremulous smile.†
Chpt 6
- As she left the mill those sultry evenings, with the heat mists still tremulous over the valley and heat lightnings bickering in the west, she went with a lagging step up the village street, not looking, as had been her wont, first toward the far blue mountains, and then at the glorious state of the big valley.†
Chpt 9
- Didn't she?" echoed the mother, with a tremulous half-smile.†
Chpt 10
- Gray turned and looked into the flushed, tremulous face beside him with a sudden tightening in his throat.†
Chpt 10
- Johnnie was on her knees beside the child, feeling her over with tremulous hands.†
Chpt 17
- She continually huddled the light cape together at the neck with tremulous, unsteady fingers; and it was characteristic of these two that, although the woman had heard of the calamity at the Victory mill the night before, and knew that Shade came directly from the Himes home, she made no inquiry as to the welfare of Deanie, and he offered no information.†
Chpt 19
- She finally laid a tremulous hand on his arm.†
Chpt 23
- "Pap, he's gone," the poor woman went on tremulously, "an' the evil what he done—or wanted to do—is a thing that I reckon you can afford to forget.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(tremulous) quivering (unsteady or shaky) -- usually from weakness or fear -- especially of the voice