trembled

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To open its tenth TV season, CBS's Studio One last week tackled the difficult chore of re-enacting the event from an uneven script called The Night America Trembled.

From Time Magazine Archive

Low laughed the Columbine, Trembled her petals fine As the breeze blew; In her dove-heart there stirred Murmurs the dull bee heard, And Love, Life's wild white bird, Straightway she knew.

From A Woman's Love Letters by Hensley, Sophia Margaret

In his right hand Sero wielded,— p. 28Brandished a terrific weapon, And it was a sword of terror; For the evil, but beholding, Trembled as an aspen leaflet, Shuddered as the ruined shudder.

From A Leaf from the Old Forest by Cossar, John D.

So from each Of those two pillars which from earth uphold Our childhood, one had fall'n away, and all The careful burthen of our tender years Trembled upon the other.

From The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

And the soul of Ernest Faithful Trembled in sore dismay; And from the judgment angel's gaze Shuddering, turned away.

From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll