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She spoke timidly in a tremulous voice.tremulous = quivering (shaky)
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She tried to sound confident, but her voice was tremulous.
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"I'm very hard to catch," she says in a tremulous voice. (source)tremulous = quivering (shaky) -- usually from weakness or fear
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Rubbed his eyes with tremulous hands. (source)tremulous = quivering (shaky)
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Then more lines appeared, one by one, tremulous arcs and circles sweeping through the darkness. (source)tremulous = quivering
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Now and again an ancestral spirit or egwugwu appeared from the underworld, speaking in a tremulous, unearthly voice and... (source)
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a tremulous voice called out. (source)tremulous = quivering (shaky)
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"I think so," said Neville tremulously. (source)tremulously = with a quivering (shaky) voice -- usually from weakness or fear
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Ronnie heard the tremulousness of her own voice. (source)tremulousness = shakiness (trembling or quivering)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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I looked down at Roscoe, who was still in full-on tremulous mode. (source)tremulous = quivering (shaky)
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"I'm chief," said Ralph tremulously. (source)tremulously = with quivering (shakiness)
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The Howlands across the street are such window-peepers, and Mrs. Bogart——" She did not look at him but she could divine his tremulousness as he stumbled indoors.† (source)
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And from his lips came a soft, tremulous sigh. (source)tremulous = quivering (shaky)
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Derby was imagining letters to home, his lips working tremulously. (source)tremulously = with quivering
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...the musicians looked at each other and smiled as if at their own nervousness and folly, and made whispering vows, each to the other, that the next chiming of the clock should produce in them no similar emotion; and then, after the lapse of sixty minutes ... there came yet another chiming of the clock, and then were the same disconcert and tremulousness and meditation as before. (source)tremulousness = fear (often shown through a quivering voice)
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and Lucy went with him, laying a rather tremulous hand on his mane. (source)tremulous = quivering (usually from fear)
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