The Only Use of
tremulous
in
The Masque of the Red Death
- ...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.
tremulousness = fear (often shown through a quivering voice)
Definition:
quivering (unsteady or shaky) -- usually from weakness or fear -- especially of the voice