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Through the chinks of the wood the sun sent across the flooring long fine rays that were broken at the corners of the furniture and trembled along the ceiling.
Large dishes of yellow cream, that trembled with the least shake of the table, had designed on their smooth surface the initials of the newly wedded pair in nonpareil arabesques.
She trembled as she blew back the tissue paper over the engraving and saw it folded in two and fall gently against the page.
The rushes, close to the ground, whistled; the branches trembled in a swift rustling, while their summits, ceaselessly swaying, kept up a deep murmur.
Her hair, undulating towards the ears, shone with a blue lustre; a rose in her chignon trembled on its mobile stalk, with artificial dewdrops on the tip of the leaves.
Lace trimmings, diamond brooches, medallion bracelets trembled on bodices, gleamed on breasts, clinked on bare arms.
He declaimed—"This is no longer the time, gentlemen, when civil discord ensanguined our public places, when the landlord, the business-man, the working-man himself, falling asleep at night, lying down to peaceful sleep, trembled lest he should be awakened suddenly by the noise of incendiary tocsins, when the most subversive doctrines audaciously sapped foundations."
Here and there around her, in the leaves or on the ground, trembled luminous patches, as it hummingbirds flying about had scattered their feathers.
Neither Ambrose Pare, applying for the first time since Celsus, after an interval of fifteen centuries, a ligature to an artery, nor Dupuytren, about to open an abscess in the brain, nor Gensoul when he first took away the superior maxilla, had hearts that trembled, hands that shook, minds so strained as Monsieur Bovary when he approached Hippolyte, his tenotome between his fingers.
The table with all the plates was upset; sauce, meat, knives, the salt, and cruet-stand were strewn over the room; Charles was calling for help; Berthe, scared, was crying; and Felicite, whose hands trembled, was unlacing her mistress, whose whole body shivered convulsively.
By the side of a Parisienne in her laces, in the drawing-room of some illustrious physician, a person driving his carriage and wearing many orders, the poor clerk would no doubt have trembled like a child; but here, at Rouen, on the harbour, with the wife of this small doctor he felt at his ease, sure beforehand he would shine.
Emma tasted this love in a discreet, absorbed fashion, maintained it by all the artifices of her tenderness, and trembled a little lest it should be lost later on.
And she was charming to see, with her eyes, in which trembled a tear, like the rain of a storm in a blue corolla.
The walls trembled, the ceiling was crushing her, and she passed back through the long alley, stumbling against the heaps of dead leaves scattered by the wind.
Everyone in his hospital trembled when he was angry; and his students so revered him that they tried, as soon as they were themselves in practice, to imitate him as much as possible.
He trembled so that he pierced the skin of the temple in several places.
A fresh breeze was blowing; the rye and colza were sprouting, little dewdrops trembled at the roadsides and on the hawthorn hedges.
As soon as he was inside the house, Julien felt his shoulder gripped by his father's strong hand; he trembled, expecting to receive a shower of blows.
He trembled when a pleasant voice sounded close to his ear:'What have you come for, my boy?'Julien turned sharply round, and, struck by the charm of Madame de Renal's expression, forgot part of his shyness.
As he opened the door of his room, he trembled so much that his knees gave way beneath him, and he was obliged to lean against the wall.
She had so scolded Julien for the imprudence he had shown in coming to her room the night before, that she trembled lest he might not come that night.
The letter was signed with an assumed name, but as he opened it Julien trembled: a leaf from a tree had fallen out at his feet; it was the signal arranged between him and the abbe Pirard.
He gathered her in his arms; she trembled, and had barely the strength to repulse him.
He had so clearly divined the importance of this new arrival that he trembled lest his glance should be thought an indiscretion.
She could not bring herself to look at him; she trembled lest she should meet an expression of scorn.
He had shown her Julien's letter, she trembled lest he should have deemed it noble to put an end to his life: 'And without my permission?' she said to herself with an agony which partook of anger.
Great as her courage might be, the idea of an influential head of the Congregation and that of a profound and cautious rascality were so closely associated in her mind that she trembled as she rang the bell at the door of the Bishop's palace.
"Peyton Dunwoodie!" said Frances, solemnly, and with a face of ashy paleness, "you have told me - you have sworn, that you love me--""I do," interrupted the soldier, with fervor; but motioning for silence she continued, in a voice that trembled with her fears,-"Do you think I can throw myself into the arms of a man whose hands are stained with the blood of my only brother!""Frances, you wring my very heart!"
Although there was nothing more in this movement than occurred every day on such occasions, yet the lady trembled, colored, and grew pale again, seemingly endeavoring to rally her thoughts, until, by her agitation, she had excited the interest of the whole party; when by an effort, and in a manner as if she had striven in vain to think of another, Isabella said, faintly,-"Major Dunwoodie."
"This sudden change in the weather, and perhaps the situation of my brother, have united to make me melancholy, Miss Wharton," said Isabella, in a low tone, and in a voice that trembled as she spoke.
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