All 3 Uses of
tremulous
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- So now, when Francie heard themselves called lousy bastards, she smiled tremulously at the kind man.†
Chpt 27tremulously = with quivering (shakiness)
- That was Ben Blake; well-dressed, gay, handsome, brilliant, sure of himself, well-liked by the boys, with all the girls crazy about him—and Francie Nolan tremulously in love with him.†
Chpt 49
- A girl—in spite of bright-red lipstick and grown-up clothes and a lot of knowledge picked up here and there—who was yet tremulously innocent; a girl who had come face to face with some of the evil of the world and most of its hardships, and yet had remained curiously untouched by the world.†
Chpt 53 *
Definition:
quivering (unsteady or shaky) -- usually from weakness or fear -- especially of the voice