All 4 Uses
tremulous
in
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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- Here the akimbo Skeleton one might play like a piccolo; here the Blimp who could be punctured every night, pumped up at dawn; here the midget known as The Wart who could be mailed parcel post dirt-cheap; and next to him an even littler accident of cell and time, a Dwarf so small and perched in such a way you could not see his face behind the cards clenched before him in arthritic and tremulous oak-gnarled fingers.†
Part 1tremulous = quivering (shaky)
- Just as they felt that balloon sift down like an autumn rain, so she could feel their souls disinhabit, reinhabit their tremulous nostrils.†
Part 2
- Now, tremulously, experimentally, daring to test, the Witch inhaled.
Part 2 *tremulously = with quivering (shakiness)
- Did or did he not perceive, with the tremulous tip of eyelash if not the eye, their passage through, their wait beyond, warm wax amongst cold, waiting to be key-wound by terrors, run free in panics?†
Part 3tremulous = quivering (shaky)
Definitions:
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(1)
(tremulous) quivering (unsteady or shaky) -- usually from weakness or fear -- especially of the voice
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)