Thesaurus / tremble
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She looked both as she permitted her full red mouth to tremble and his arms to take sudden possession of her.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONSoftly tremble in the delicate blue mist and the azure spirals from his old Virginia clay—the domes of a sea-bathed city.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.From time to time I felt my companion's arm tremble convulsively, as if he shivered from head to feet.
CAMILLE (LA DAME AUX CAMILIAS)ALEXANDRE DUMAS, FILSAt seven o'clock, a horrible din makes you start up in bed and tremble from head to foot.
FRIEND MAC DONALDMAX O'RELLAunt Harriet began to tremble, and Sara Lee went over and put her young arms about her.
THE AMAZING INTERLUDEMARY ROBERTS RINEHARTMy heart beats violently, my hands tremble, as I hastily pick up the newspaper.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANThe smile was like a knife-thrust through her heart: everything in her began to tremble and break loose.
SUMMEREDITH WHARTONI will restrain my fear, and hide it from others as well as I can, though I know I shall tremble.
MY TEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENTSILVIO PELLICO"And we even found great fault with him for holding such language," added old Martin the Prudent, all in a tremble.
THE PILGRIM'S SHELL OR FERGAN THE QUARRYMANEUGNE SUEThese patients begin to tremble as soon as they get away from the line of buildings in a street, in their way across the square.
ESSAYS IN PASTORAL MEDICINEAUSTIN MALLEYWORDS RELATED TO TREMBLE
- beckon
- billow
- brandish
- coil
- curl
- direct
- falter
- flap
- flourish
- flow
- fluctuate
- flutter
- fly
- gesticulate
- indicate
- motion
- move to and fro
- oscillate
- palpitate
- pulsate
- pulse
- quaver
- quiver
- reel
- ripple
- seesaw
- shake
- sign
- signal
- stir
- stream
- surge
- sway
- swell
- swing
- swirl
- swish
- switch
- tremble
- twirl
- twist
- undulate
- vacillate
- vibrate
- wag
- waggle
- waver
- whirl
- wield
- wigwag
- wobble
- be irresolute
- be unable to decide
- blow hot and cold
- change
- deliberate
- dilly-dally
- dither
- falter
- flicker
- fluctuate
- halt
- hedge
- hem and haw
- hesitate
- oscillate
- palter
- pause
- pussyfoot around
- quiver
- reel
- run hot and cold
- seesaw
- shake
- stagger
- sway
- teeter
- totter
- tremble
- trim
- undulate
- vacillate
- vary
- waffle
- wave
- weave
- whiffle
- wobble
- yo-yo
- blew hot and cold
- changed
- deliberated
- dilly-dallied
- dithered
- faltered
- flickered
- fluctuated
- halted
- hedged
- hem and haw
- hesitated
- oscillated
- paltered
- paused
- pussyfooted around
- quivered
- ran hot and cold
- reeled
- seesawed
- shook
- staggered
- swayed
- teetered
- tottered
- trembled
- trimmed
- undulated
- vacillated
- varied
- waffled
- was irresolute
- was unable to decided
- waved
- weaved
- whiffled
- wobbled
- yo-yoed
- abate
- adulterate
- break up
- cripple
- crumble
- cut
- debase
- debilitate
- decline
- decrease
- depress
- devitalize
- dilute
- diminish
- droop
- dwindle
- ease up
- enervate
- exhaust
- fade
- fail
- faint
- flag
- give way
- halt
- impair
- impoverish
- invalidate
- languish
- lessen
- limp
- lose
- lose spirit
- lower
- minimize
- mitigate
- moderate
- reduce
- relapse
- relax
- sap
- slow down
- soften
- temper
- thin
- thin out
- tire
- totter
- tremble
- undermine
- vitiate
- wane
- water down
- wilt
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