trembling


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Synonyms for trembling

vibrating slightly and irregularly

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At ten o'clock at night, after passing over ravines, forests, and scattered villages, the aeronauts reached the side of the Trembling Mountain, along whose gentle slopes they went quietly gliding.
About ten the balloon anchored on the side of the Trembling Mountain, so called, because, in Arab tradition, it is said to tremble the instant that a Mussulman sets foot upon it.
Maggie was frightened at Tom's pale, trembling silence.
The two poor things clung closer to each other, both trembling,--the one at an unshapen fear, the other at the image of a terrible certainty.
His grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over to the godmother, Princess Mary.
Again he put his trembling hands to his head, and gave a wild ringing scream, the cry of desolation.
The fellow had retreated to the end of the bridge, where he now stood trembling and wide-eyed, facing the beast that moved slowly toward him.
Like the sail trembling with the violence of the spirit, doth my wisdom cross the sea--my wild wisdom!
Old Simon turned pale, and put his trembling hands together.
The old man bowed deeply and went out trembling, but without speaking a word.
A mysterious trembling shuddered over me faintly from head to foot.
I still felt the mysterious trembling which had oppressed me in the garden.
A tremor is when you're not able to control shaking or trembling in part of your body.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday suffered another episode of uncontrolled trembling, a week after a similar incident that sparked questions about her health.
An Inverness mum has claimed that her pet cat was left "trembling and traumatised" after heartless thugs pinned it down and painted it blue.