tremulation

Despite the tremulation with which I approach sleep, the strangest thing is the sense of liberation while waking.

What’s the Weirdest Experience of Your Life? 2010

His birth into the burgess-class had given him something of the inevitable and everlasting tremulation which the comfortable classes always feel upon the recollection or the expectation of Revolution.

Jean-Christophe Journey's End Romain Rolland 1905

_Dirl_, a sharp stroke, the tremulation caused by a stroke.

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

No studied trick or start can be predicted; -- no forced tremulation of the figure, where the vacancy of the eye declares the absence of passion, can be seen; -- no laborious strainings at false climax, in which the tired voice reiterates one high tone beyond which it cannot reach, is ever heard; -- no artificial heaving of the breasts, so disgusting when the affectation is perceptible; -- none of those arts by which the actress is seen, and not the character, can be found in Mrs. Siddons.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 Various

She received letters from England nearly every day asking about rooms and prices (and on many of them she had to pay threepence excess postage, because the writers carelessly or carefully forgot that a penny stamp was not sufficient); there was nothing to distinguish this envelope, and yet her first glance at it had startled her; and when, deciphering the smudged post-mark, she made out the word 'Bursley,' her heart did literally seem to stop, and she opened the letter in quite violent tremulation, thinking to herself: "The doctor would say this is very bad for me."

The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1899

Glass, or hang it in the open Air by a piece of Wire, then looking upon some far distant Object (such as a Steeple or Tree) so as the Rays from that Object pass directly over the Glass before they enter your eye, you shall find such a tremulation and wavering of the remote Object, as will very much offend your eye: The like tremulous motion you may observe to be caus'd by the ascending steams of Water, and the like.

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669