All 18 Uses of

tremulous

in

Look Homeward, Angel

She leaned toward him, her lips half-parted and tremulous, her breathing short and uncertain, and as his bare arms circled her fiercely their lips met in one long moment of rapture, one final moment of life and ecstasy, in which all the pent longing of their lives found release and consummation now at this triumphant moment of their death.†
Chpt 1

He saw himself in exalted circumstances with Bessie Barnes, her pure eyes dim with tears, her sweet lips tremulous with desire: he felt the strong handgrip of Honest Jack, her brother, his truehearted fidelity, the deep eternal locking of their brave souls, as they looked dumbly at each other with misty eyes, and thought of the pact of danger, the shoulder-to-shoulder drive through death and terror which had soldered them silently but implacably.†
Chpt 1

"I never thought," she began after a long pause, her mouth tremulous with a bitter hurt smile, "that I should live to hear such talk from a son of mine.†
Chpt 1

And, as the legend of Helen's goodness and devotion grew, and his dependence upon her got further advertisement, Eliza pursed her lips more and more thoughtfully, wept sometimes into the spitting grease of a pan, smiled, beneath her wide red nose, a smile tremulous, bitter, terribly hurt.†
Chpt 1

"You've got to help me drum up some trade, if we're to live, boy," she said again, with the lip-pursing, mouth-tremulous jocularity that was coming to wound him so deeply, because he felt it was only an obvious mask for a more obvious insincerity.†
Chpt 1

You know," she continued with her tremulous smile, "as the darkey says, we're pore-folks."†
Chpt 2

Eliza waved to him and smiled tremulously; she turned back into the house sniffling, with wet eyes.†
Chpt 2 *

Eliza smiled at swagger and boast, her proud, pleased, tremulous sad smile.†
Chpt 2

When badgered by Helen because of her supposed neglect of the sick man or when the concentration of attention upon the invalid piqued her jealousy, she smiled with white tremulous bitterness, hinting darkly: "He may not be the first to go.†
Chpt 2

Then he lifted his beet-red face, and whispered tremulously, not knowing well what he said: "You're a nice girl, Louise.†
Chpt 2

And as he proceeded, with thumping heart and tremulous voice, Buck Benson's manner would become more and more weary, until finally, dropping his book, he would drawl: "Mister Gant, you make me so damned mad I could throw you out the window.†
Chpt 3

Her eyes grew misty at once, her lips began to work tremulously in a bitter self-pitying smile.†
Chpt 3

"Now, I tell you, son," said Eliza, with a white tremulous smile, "when you go in there to see him, don't make out as if you knew he was sick.†
Chpt 3

Eliza began, with a tremulous bantering smile, "your head will get turned by all the things they're saying about you.†
Chpt 3

In the dark he knew that she was smiling tremulously at him, pursing her lips.†
Chpt 3

Son," she said more gravely, with a sudden change from her tremulous banter, "it worries me to see you walk like that.†
Chpt 3

Of course, he's not as straight now as he used to be—as the fellow says" (she smiled tremulously)—"I reckon we all have a tendency to shrink up a little as we get older.†
Chpt 3

Definition:

(tremulous)
quivering (unsteady or shaky) -- usually from weakness or fear -- especially of the voice