All 15 Uses
tremulous
in
Adam Bede
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- But Dinah walked as simply as if she were going to market, and seemed as unconscious of her outward appearance as a little boy: there was no blush, no tremulousness, which said, "I know you think me a pretty woman, too young to preach"; no casting up or down of the eyelids, no compression of the lips, no attitude of the arms that said, "But you must think of me as a saint."†
Chpt 2
- We do not hear that Memnon's statue gave forth its melody at all under the rushing of the mightiest wind, or in response to any other influence divine or human than certain short-lived sunbeams of morning; and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.†
Chpt 9tremulous = quivering (shaky)
- The desire to see Hetty had rushed back like an ill-stemmed current; he was amazed himself at the force with which this trivial fancy seemed to grasp him: he was even rather tremulous as he brushed his hair—pooh!†
Chpt 12
- "Yes, sir," Hetty answered, with a tremulous, almost whispering voice.†
Chpt 12
- Hetty spoke more audibly now, but still rather tremulously; she thought, perhaps she seemed as stupid to Captain Donnithorne as Luke Britton did to her.†
Chpt 12 *tremulously = with quivering (shakiness)
- The man who awakes the wondering tremulous passion of a young girl always thinks her affectionate; and if he chances to look forward to future years, probably imagines himself being virtuously tender to her, because the poor thing is so clingingly fond of him.†
Chpt 15tremulous = quivering (shaky)
- She dropped her curtsies again, without looking up, and with a growing tremulousness about the corners of her mouth, and then turned away.†
Chpt 25
- She who had never got up in the morning without the certainty of seeing familiar faces, people on whom she had an acknowledged claim; whose farthest journey had been to Rosseter on the pillion with her uncle; whose thoughts had always been taking holiday in dreams of pleasure, because all the business of her life was managed for her—this kittenlike Hetty, who till a few months ago had never felt any other grief than that of envying Mary Burge a new ribbon, or being girded at by her aunt for neglecting Totty, must now make her toilsome way in loneliness, her peaceful home left behind for ever, and nothing but a tremulous hope of distant refuge before her.†
Chpt 36tremulous = quivering (shaky)
- "It's Captain Donnithorne," said Hetty tremulously, her heart beginning to beat painfully at this disappointment of her hope that she should find Arthur at once.†
Chpt 36tremulously = with quivering (shakiness)
- Mr. Irwine nodded slowly, and Adam went on rather tremulously, "You was t' ha' married me and Hetty Sorrel, you know, sir, o' the fifteenth o' this month.†
Chpt 39
- Adam's lips moved tremulously, but no sound came.†
Chpt 39
- "Have you seen her, sir?" said Adam tremulously.†
Chpt 41
- "Not I, lad—not I." So the night wore on in agitation till the chill dawn and the growing light brought the tremulous quiet that comes on the brink of despair.†
Chpt 46tremulous = quivering (shaky)
- They sat down again opposite each other, and Adam said, tremulously, "How did she seem when you left her, sir?"†
Chpt 48tremulously = with quivering (shakiness)
- If so, you will no more think the slight words, the timid looks, the tremulous touches, by which two human souls approach each other gradually, like two little quivering rain-streams, before they mingle into one—you will no more think these things trivial than you will think the first-detected signs of coming spring trivial, though they be but a faint indescribable something in the air and in the song of the birds, and the tiniest perceptible budding on the hedge-row branches.†
Chpt 50tremulous = 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)