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"Tremble" Quotes from Famous Books

... "How dare you laugh so impertinently in my presence?" he asked, while administering the remedy of the strap, which he considered a specific for all misdemeanours; and now not only stopped the poor boy's laughing, but caused him to tremble under the undeserved punishment. ...

— Watch--Work--Wait - Or, The Orphan's Victory • Sarah A. Myers

... looked astonished, and then began to turn round toward one another to see who the offender could be. The culprit began to tremble. ...

— The Teacher • Jacob Abbott

... capable of leading the King astray; but upon a full view of all circumstances, I have sanguine hopes, that such a constitution will be established here, as will regenerate the energy of the nation, cover its friends, and make its enemies tremble. I am, with very great esteem, Dear Sir, your friend ...

— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

... ice-mountains hem the frozen pole, And the hoar architect of winter piles With tireless hand his snowy pyramids, Looks upward in deep awe,—while all around The eternal ices kindle with the hues Which tremble on their gleaming pinnacles And sharp cold ridges of enduring frost,— And points his child ...

— Whittier-land - A Handbook of North Essex • Samuel T. Pickard

... I tremble to think of what I should have become had this fauntleroy process of rearing been allowed to continue unchecked. There were prigs enough in our family already without afflicting the world with another, and it rejoices me to this day to recall that just as we ...

— The Autobiography of Methuselah • John Kendrick Bangs

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