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  • In a tremulous manner.

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  • adverb In a tremulous manner.

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  • adverb in a tremulous manner

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Examples

  • "Aunt Ailsey," she called tremulously, "I want to speak to you, Aunt Ailsey."

    The Battle Ground Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

  • "Governor, Governor!" she called tremulously, "I feel as if I were going to faint.

    From the Valley of the Missing Grace Miller White 1912

  • A ruined shaft stood at the head, the last of the sunset glowing through its empty window-sockets; an owl called tremulously, the sheep answered their lambs from the dim moor.

    Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

  • 'I don't think any one of them would want to.' she laughed again tremulously.

    Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

  • From these trees came the far-away, melancholy cooing of mourning doves, and little owls perched in them and called tremulously at night.

    IV. In Cowboy Land 1913

  • From these trees came the far-away, melancholy cooing of mourning doves, and little owls perched in them and called tremulously at night.

    An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913

  • Love have become to me what I may be permitted to call tremulously vivid.

    The Conquest of Fear Basil King 1893

  • From these trees came the far-away, melancholy cooing of mourning doves, and little owls perched in them and called tremulously at night.

    Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • Madeleine spoke that single word tremulously, and a faint flush passed over her soft, pale face.

    Fairy Fingers A Novel Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie 1844

  • "Yes, Edward; but," tremulously, "you know Dr. Kreiss said his father was in a shipping business."

    Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Various

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