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Trembled in sentence

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So the man who fled down the mountain that night trembled not with joy but with a stark, primordial fear.
Back home, with Benandonner fast approaching, Finn trembled as he described his enemy’s bulk to Oonagh.
The only thing I want to leave you with is the moment in which those men, some of them just huge when standing next to me, or the young boys - so young, but with an enormous pride, held their papers and trembled like little kids and sweated, and read their poems with their voices completely broken.
He actually trembled when he spoke to me.
He saw that a sigh had been suppressed within her breast and that the little hand in its long glove holding the candle trembled.
– I do not receive because I am ill,' he said, and his lips trembled.
He repeated to himself the words with which he had intended to propose; but instead of those words some unexpected thought caused him to say:'What difference is there between the white boleti and the birch-tree variety?'Varenka's lips trembled with emotion when she replied:'There is hardly any difference in the tops, but only in the stems.'
His jaw trembled and his voice faltered.
The slanting rays of the sun were still hot; his clothes were wet through with perspiration and stuck to his body; his left boot, full of water, was heavy and made a smacking sound; down his face, grimy with powder, ran drops of sweat; a bitter taste was in his mouth, the smell of powder and rust was in his nose, and the perpetual cry of the snipe was in his ears; he could not touch the barrels of his gun, they were so hot; his heart thumped with short, quick beats; his hands trembled with excitement and his tired feet stumbled as he dragged them over the hummocks and through the bog; but still he went on and shot.
She looked pale and stern, and as resolute as before though her jaw trembled a little and her eyes were fixed intently on Kitty.
And as he refused, declaring that he was not hungry, while his voice trembled with the gnawing in his stomach, she went on cheerfully:"Ah! if you are fastidious!
The young man, taking his half, restrained himself from devouring it all at once, and placed his arms on his thighs, so that she should not see how he trembled.
His voice trembled, and when he had reached the end they all continued to gaze steadily at the placard.
It was sufficient to join and the companies trembled, for the men entered the great army of workers who were resolved to die for one another rather than to remain the slaves of a capitalistic society.
One day, even, he had forced Lydie to steal from her mother, and made her bring him two dozen sticks of barley-sugar, which Pierronne kept in a bottle on one of the boards in her window; and the little girl, who was well beaten, had not betrayed him because she trembled so before his authority.
In this state of mental tension reason trembled, and only the sectarian's fixed idea was left.
She trembled, and her eyelids swelled with tears.
He was joking, but his voice trembled.
The devout trembled at this; the lawyer declared that it was Socialism of the worst kind; all saw the cur at the head of a band, brandishing a cross, and with vigorous blows demolishing the bourgeois society of '89.
Alzire also had said nothing, and was trying not to shiver, so as to avoid giving them pain; but in spite of her courage in suffering, she sometimes trembled so much that one could hear against the coverlet the quivering of the little invalid girl's lean body, while with her large open eyes she stared at the ceiling, from which the pale reflection of the white gardens lit up the room like moonshine.
He trembled lest the guard at the Voreux had heard the sentinel's stifled cry, and looked towards the pit every time the moon was uncovered.
A stone having bounded back and struck the old soldier with the stripes beneath the belly, his cheeks turned green, and his weapon trembled as he stretched it out at the end of his lean arms.
But he trembled especially when he noticed that the sump beneath him, that pit ten metres deep.
The Voreux trembled, but continued solid and upright.
The distant blows had become weaker since the previous day, and every moment they trembled lest they should stop.
And she was not willing; she trembled lest, by returning to him, she should throw these two men on to each other in this narrow cave, where they were all in agony together.
The other turned pale and his lips trembled; then, with a movement of excuse:"What would you have?
Its masts trembled down to their blocks, and swirls of smoke could barely squeeze through the narrow funnels.
He trembled, and turning around:"Ah, it's you, professor!" he said to me.
Brandishing an imaginary harpoon, his hands positively trembled.
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