Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Marked by tremors; vibrating rapidly.
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- adjective In a
tremoring manner.
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Examples
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I get this lovely image of you sitting by a pleasant fire wrapped in shawls, wearing a deathshead bonnet and sipping hot chocolate from your skull cup, with gently tremorous hands.
My haul of Halloween skull stuff and a lot of screaming Elizabeth McClung 2007
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Then she stood back and put her tremorous hands on my shoulders.
Spin 2005
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But he was somewhat afraid of the sound of his own tremorous voice.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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In the dark passage by the fidley he fell to tremorous weeping.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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Harbin was cut off by a long, tremorous outburst from the queen.
The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998
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Harbin was cut off by a long, tremorous outburst from the queen.
The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998
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(Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way-the industrialized, urbanized, herding way-to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one wrong way.)
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976
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An undercurrent of deep sincerity stayed many a tremorous hand.
The Masques of Ottawa Domino
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In the dark passage by the fidley he fell to tremorous weeping.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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But he was somewhat afraid of the sound of his own tremorous voice.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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