1 He saw a scarcely perceptible tremor cross her face, and without knowing what he did he stooped his head and kissed the bit of stuff in his hold.
2 Her lids sank and a tremor crossed her face.
3 She was silent, but he felt a slight tremor in the shoulder against his.
4 His eyes were wide and blazing queerly and the tremor in his arms frightened her.
5 But the power of expression failed her suddenly; she felt a tremor in her throat, and two tears gathered and fell slowly from her eyes.
6 She was still in a state of highly-wrought impressionability, and every hint of the past sent a lingering tremor along her nerves.
7 The very first chords which Mademoiselle Reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremor down Mrs. Pontellier's spinal column.
8 When on a perfect level, it remained for a single moment, without tremor or variation, as though both man and rifle were carved in stone.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29 9 Suddenly, as the two friends marched on, the tall soldier seemed to be overcome by a tremor.
10 For a moment the tremor of his legs caused him to dance a sort of hideous hornpipe.
11 A crowd of servants now pressed to the entry door, and among them a middle-aged mulatto woman, of very respectable appearance, stood foremost, in a tremor of expectation and joy, at the door.
12 The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HA... 13 Jean Valjean shuddered with the continual tremor of the unhappy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS 14 None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF 15 There, nevertheless, we insist upon it, is life, palpitation, human tremor.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER