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Here he shook his head expressively, and the spinster aunt trembled with agitation.
'HE cut ME; will he!' and she trembled with rage and disappointment.
'Snodgrass,' said Mr. Pickwick earnestly, 'how is our friend-- he is not ill?''No,' replied Mr. Snodgrass; and a tear trembled on his sentimental eyelid, like a rain-drop on a window-frame-'no; he is not ill.'
I trembled; the razor was in my hand, but I could not move.
But though he had often thought then, how briskly he would walk up to Maria Lobbs and tell her of his passion if he could only meet her, he felt, now that she was unexpectedly before him, all the blood in his body mounting to his face, manifestly to the great detriment of his legs, which, deprived of their usual portion, trembled beneath him.
The voice had no sooner ceased than the room was shaken with such violence that the windows rattled in their frames, and the bedsteads trembled again.
I hope you may live to remember and feel deeply, what I shall have to communicate, Sir.'Jingle bowed respectfully, trembled very much as he took Mr. Pickwick's proffered hand, and withdrew.
I mention the circumstance, to show what a very uncommon sort of person this beautiful young lady must have been, to have affected my uncle in the way she did; he used to say, that as her long dark hair trailed over his arm, and her beautiful dark eyes fixed themselves upon his face when she recovered, he felt so strange and nervous that his legs trembled beneath him.
He ventured once to whisper, 'Waiter!' through the keyhole, but the probability of the wrong waiter coming to his relief, flashed upon his mind, together with a sense of the strong resemblance between his own situation and that in which another gentleman had been recently found in a neighbouring hotel (an account of whose misfortunes had appeared under the head of 'Police' in that morning's paper), he sat himself on a portmanteau, and trembled violently.
And as they cried at the subsequent ceremony in the proper places, and trembled at the right times, they acquitted themselves to the admiration of all beholders.
trembled, her eyes were fixed on the ground, and her lips became whiter than even sickness had left them.
Now she could hear more; and she trembled in expectation of it.
For a moment, as she set foot on land, she trembled with a revulsion of feeling.
Thus M. de Treville was praised to the highest note by these men, who adored him, and who, ruffians as they were, trembled before him like scholars before their master, obedient to his least word, and ready to sacrifice themselves to wash out the smallest insult.
On the landing d’Artagnan blushed; in the antechamber he trembled.
To save yourselves, to scamper away, to flee--that is good for the king’s Musketeers!"Porthos and Aramis trembled with rage.
I felt, in bending my head toward you, your beautiful hair touch my cheek; and every time that it touched me I trembled from head to foot.
The chancellor, who, on his part, trembled with an emotion easily to be conceived, took the letter, bowed to the ground, and retired.
The king trembled with joy and the cardinal with vexation; although, distant as they were from the queen, they could not count the studs.
D’Artagnan trembled.
D’Artagnan trembled; and he likewise recollected that during the past half hour the poor woman had passed close to him, without doubt carried away by the same power that had caused her disappearance.
As to fortune, he had made--he, humble as he was--an enemy of the cardinal; that is to say, of a man before whom trembled the greatest men of the kingdom, beginning with the king.
D’Artagnan was lifting a glass to his lips; but at the name of Milady, his hand trembled so, that he was obliged to put the glass on the ground again for fear of spilling the contents."
Milady trembled; she thought Felton had told all.
He had been informed at seven o’clock in the morning that a rope ladder floated from one of the windows of the castle; he had hastened to Milady’s chamber, had found it empty, the window open, and the bars filed, had remembered the verbal caution d’Artagnan had transmitted to him by his messenger, had trembled for the duke, and running to the stable without taking time to have a horse saddled, had jumped upon the first he found, had galloped off like the wind, had alighted below in the courtyard, had ascended the stairs precipitately, and on the top step, as we have said, had encountered Felton.
Mousqueton trembled in all his members.
I trembled, too, very unnecessarily, since the true key was in my hands, and no other would open the secret.
The way was growing more and more arduous, the ascent steeper and steeper; the loose fragments of rock trembled beneath us, and the utmost care was needed to avoid dangerous falls.
voice trembled as I recalled the pains and the pride with which I had composed them.
I thought of Sir Lothian's murderous repute as a duellist, and I trembled for my uncle.
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