"Tremulously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and red clay roads spread sun-baked ruts and furrows as sharp as knives. As many times as her years, Hope Carolina fell by the way; oftener, indeed. But the good folk in the scattered blind-closed houses along the way—who, too, a half-hour ago had whispered tremulously, "There won't be a white face"—saw no ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 • Various
... I was going. I began to be afraid that I was lost and that I'd freeze to death. And then I saw the light in the window—a little square that flickered feebly in the distance, and which sometimes seemed to disappear completely." She smiled, tremulously. ...
— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer
... arm-chair and placed the violin under his chin. Tremulously he drew the bow across the middle string, his bloodless fingers moving ...
— The Fifth String, The Conspirators • John Philip Sousa
... monsieur le cure," she smiled up, a little tremulously, into the burning, glowing eyes. The priest bent over the fair head, laying his hand, as if ...
— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd
... not his warning, but silently, tremulously listened to Sonora, who shouted through the door: "Say, Girl, you all right?" And not until her answering voice had called back her assurance that she was safe did she turn to the man at her side and whisper in a voice that showed plainly her ...
— The Girl of the Golden West • David Belasco
... strange music, with music so barbaric that, frankly, I blushed to find it harmony. Have I said that she was beautiful? It can convey no faint conception of her. With her pure, fair skin, eyes like the velvet darkness of the East, and red lips so tremulously near to mine, she was the most seductively lovely creature I ever had looked upon. In that electric moment my heart went out in sympathy to every man who had bartered honor, country, all ...
— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... drew a deep breath. "It's very pleasant to get to the end of a journey," she began a trifle tremulously. Mary Rose was beginning to feel a bit forlorn at being left alone with an aunt she had never seen before. "Mrs. Black's a very kind lady and she brought me here in a taxicab. It's very ...
— Mary Rose of Mifflin • Frances R. Sterrett
... she said quite tremulously—"Oh, I am so anxious, so very anxious about it. The editor of the Evening Mail—has promised to use one of mine; it will be—well, not quite my first story in print, but certainly the first one paid for. There is such a difference, isn't there? Nearly any one can get a story ...
— In the Mist of the Mountains • Ethel Turner
... them indoors. Stonor closed the door of the shack, and built up the fire in the fireplace. Stonor no longer expected the man to return, but Clare was still tremulously on the qui vive for the slightest sound. Mary went off to bed in the store-room. The others remained sitting before the fire in Imbrie's two chairs. For them sleep was out of the question. Each had privately determined to sit up ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner
... I am afraid so; though my mind is so hurried, and so sorry, and has so much to pity that it has not been able to follow all I have read,' said Little Dorrit tremulously. ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens
... Tremulously the singer's voice faltered in his throat to watch his song come gray-ghost-true before his staring eyes. With scant restraint the crowd along the walls pressed forward, half pleasure-mad, to solve the mystery of the apparition. Abruptly the song stopped! The dancer ...
— Little Eve Edgarton • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... tremulously.) Sometimes I sit here dreading my life at court. I want never to leave my father's bleak house. I fear that I may not like the man who offers the highest price for me. And it seems as if the court were a horrible painted animal, ...
— The Jewel Merchants - A Comedy In One Act • James Branch Cabell
... all about it," Liseke was saying tremulously, when the sitting-room door burst open and there stood Max ...
— Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories • M. T. W.
... hands tightly to her heart, as if to still its beating, and went tremulously to the door; thence to the stairs, to anticipate the lumbering step of the ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 1 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... thus to bay, and by one she had trusted most, stepped quickly forward, and quivering with vague doubts, aghast before unheard-of possibilities, she tremulously remarked: ...
— The Golden Slipper • Anna Katharine Green
... may thee all now It thinketh me, I sing as well as thou, For my song is both true and plain, Although I cannot crakel* so in vain, *sing tremulously As thou dost in thy throat, ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer
... deal, and smiled rather tremulously when her turn came and her little hand was enveloped in ...
— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... I paced, tremulously, between the window and the table; my gaze wandering hither and thither, uneasily. How dilapidated the room was. Everywhere lay the thick dust—thick, sleepy, and black. The fender was a shape of rust. The chains that held the ...
— The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson
... very kind to me!" she said tremulously. "I am so sorry to have troubled you. I do feel ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... shall open it myself," whispered Sylvie, tremulously; "it would seem worse to mother, whatever it is, coming this way. She has such a horror of a telegram." She looked at it on both sides, drew a little shivering breath, ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... red, from the hedgerows; the cuckoo was calling from the copse beside the mill stream; and the merry wee hedge-warblers were singing lustily from the topmost sprays of hawthorn, with their full throats bursting tremulously in the broad sunshine. And Ernest Le Breton, too, filled with the season, had come down from Dunbude for a fortnight's holiday, on his premised visit to his friend Oswald, or, to say the truth more plainly, to Oswald's pretty little sister Edie. ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... oaths, and he could only tell men to "Kill! kill! kill the d——d Frenchmen." It would be as easy to take examples on the other side. Camille Desmoulins was a man of much the same type, not only elegant and sweet in temper, but almost tremulously tender and humanitarian. But he was ready, he said, "to embrace Liberty upon a pile of corpses." In Ireland there were even more instances. Robert Emmet was only one famous example of a whole family of men at once sensitive and savage. I think that Mr. F.C. Gould is altogether wrong in talking ...
— All Things Considered • G. K. Chesterton
... ice in the pantry and then the pop as the bottle came open. She stood behind my chair while I drank. And somehow I got the feeling that she was smiling. I turned my head quickly. She was smiling, but tremulously, almost as if ...
— We Three • Gouverneur Morris
... tremulously, "as I came down the lanes to say good-bye to you my heart rebelled. I could not bear the thought: Olive, I have learned so many things from you; your words have meant so much to me that I have taken them as the words of God. Before I knew you ...
— AE in the Irish Theosophist • George William Russell
... tried to speak, and had found that she had no voice at all. She could only smile at him, tremulously—and be sure the Irishman did not fail to catch the smile. Then, as they dashed up the paddock, her hand sought for her father's knee under the rug, in the little gesture that had been hers from babyhood. The track curved round a grove of great ...
— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce
... that of Bishop Sanderson, with the author's donatory inscription to a friend upon the title-page. To keep this in his little library he has undergone willingly many privations, cheerfully faced hunger and cold rather than let it pass from his hand; yet, how often when, tremulously, he has unveiled this treasure to his visitors, how often has it been examined with undilating eyes, and cold, unenvious hearts! Yet so he must confess himself to have looked upon a friend's superb first edition of "Pickwick" though surely not without that measure of ...
— The Complete Angler 1653 • Isaak Walton
... you, whoever you are!" I cried. "Do you hear that bolt slide, you?" I added, tremulously, for from the other side there came no reply—only a more ...
— The Water Ghost and Others • John Kendrick Bangs
... aught in the current, which thine eye is searching?" asked the wife tremulously, fixing her bright black eye, moistened with a tear, ...
— Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) • James Athearn Jones
... she began to speak of Major Falconer as the school-master had never known her to speak; tremulously of his part in that battle, a Revolutionary officer serving as a common backwoods soldier; eloquently of his perfect courage then and always, of his perfect manliness; and she ended by saying that the worst thing that could ever befall a woman was to marry ...
— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen
... go and help you find her?" asked Miss Dallas, tremulously; "or shall I stay and look after hot flannels and—things? What shall ...
— Men, Women, and Ghosts • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... lips to her pretty toes her body was burning with love. Her ecstasy was such that one moment she felt as if she could wing a flight into the heavens; at another, she was faint with love-sickness, when she clung tremulously to ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte
... off and threw it away in the swamp," she said tremulously. "I did hate the thing so, and it was full of hornets and not big enough to take a decent step in anyhow. I hoped ...
— The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp • Katherine Stokes
... sank. Patience! Another moment and it was back again, with designs on its cage apparently, but it hesitated half way. Now was the critical moment. Magdalen hesitated. Should she risk it? She stretched out her hand towards the bird and softly and tremulously whistled to it in Hoodie's well-known call. The wavering balance of birdie's intentions was turned—it cocked its head on one side, and with a pretty chirp flew towards Magdalen and perched on her finger! Slowly and cautiously, whistling softly all the time, she slipped her hand into the ...
— Hoodie • Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth
... really believe he was You," I said tremulously. "He was your inferior in every respect. His waistcoat was not nearly so beautiful as yours. His eyes were not so soul compelling. His legs were not nearly so elegant and slender. And there was an expression about his beak which I distrusted from the ...
— My Robin • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... friend in London went to call upon his young wife, his "white lily." She was showing the house to her visitor, when, pausing suddenly before a large portrait of her famous husband, she became silent, her uplifted eyes filled, her lips smiled tremulously, she gave a little gasp, and whispered, "Oh, he's almost ...
— Stage Confidences • Clara Morris
... St. Hospital," continued the Master, still tremulously, "have, I doubt not, each his different sense of the genius loci. Warboise finds it, we'll say, in the person of Peter Ingman, Protestant and martyr. But I don't defend his behaviour. I will send for him to-morrow, and talk to him. I will talk ...
— Brother Copas • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... half-way across the room before she realized that the tall young man beside her mother was a stranger... She stopped. Her questioning gaze lingered on his face. His smile puzzled her. Her eyes narrowed, then suddenly they were distended; her lips parted in amazement, tremulously struggling into a smile of wonder and unbelief. No ...
— The Rose in the Ring • George Barr McCutcheon
... friends arrival she had tremulously expected some mention of Mr. Wendover's name; but that name had not been spoken. The silence was a relief: and yet she yearned to know something more: whether he had spoken of her with friendly feeling, whether he ...
— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon
... the Legislature was the shortest on record. It was delivered by a big generous fellow, John Baader, one of the Smith-Nugent men from Essex County. When Essex County was called, he slowly rose to his feet and almost shamefacedly addressing the Speaker of the House, said, tremulously: "I nominate for the United States Senate Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton," and then, amid silence, sat down. No applause greeted the name of the man he nominated. It seemed as if the college professor had no friends in ...
— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty
... said Granny Marrable tremulously, "that she is your mother, not dead as I have known her. But it is all your life. I mind how the letter came that told it. After your grandfather's death. ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... the night were being lighted by both sides above their trenches on each side of the salient. The balls of light rose into the velvety darkness and a moment later suffused the sky with a white glare which faded away tremulously ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs
... about her as she finished. "Oh, thank you," she whispered tremulously, "thank you for ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... who had died during her absence on the continent. He crossed over and stood near her, between her and his aunt, who, in agitated haste to change the conversation, called out to ask her about some club-book. For once she did not attend; and while Theodora came forward and answered Mrs. Nesbit, she tremulously asked John if ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... settle down in this stupid village," she laughed tremulously, tears on her lashes, "at the ugly old Hall, and among ...
— The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne • Kathleen Norris
... flowed unbrokenly into my ears a strain of melodious monotone. And when now, dear Una, approaching the bed upon which I lay outstretched, you sat gently by my side, breathing odor from your sweet lips, and pressing them upon my brow, there arose tremulously within my bosom, and mingling with the merely physical sensations which circumstances had called forth, a something akin to sentiment itself—a feeling that, half appreciating, half responded to your earnest love and sorrow; but this feeling took no root ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 4 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... back, she went to the prison and knocked timidly at the great door. It was opened instantly, and as Susan fancied, fiercely, by a burly figure. Susan, suppressing an inclination to run away, asked tremulously: ...
— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade
... tremulously, "and I swear by the four sacred geese, Amset, Sis, Soumauts, and Kebhsniv, which fly to the four quarters of the wind, that I know not where ...
— The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 - The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt • Theophile Gautier
... lady scarcely noticed the little incident. After one glance at the 'banished man,' who stood tremulously leaning on his stick, she turned to me. "This is not an American rocking-chair, by any means! Yet may I say," slightly changing her place, so as to make room for me beside her, "may I say, in Hamlet's words, 'Rest, rest—'" she broke off with ...
— Sylvie and Bruno • Lewis Carroll
... "Oh," tremulously, "it was all right when I had mother, because she was so sick that I was too busy to realize how deadly lonely it was here. I knew she needed the sea air, and she could get it better in the top of this ...
— Glory of Youth • Temple Bailey
... Blue, tremulously, Blow faint puffs of smoke Across sombre pools. The damp green smell of rotted wood; And a heron that cries from out ...
— Some Imagist Poets - An Anthology • Richard Aldington
... the last, the youngest-minded, the most buoyant tower—the mighty Child among the steeples of the world. The lonely towers of Cologne stretching with that grave and empty nave against the sky, out of that old and faded region of religion, far away, tremulously send greetings to it—to this white tower in the west—to where it goes up with its crowds of people in it, with business and with daily living and hoping and dying in it, ...
— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee
... her eyes. Mr. Dickens took a turn. The feelings of a man had not altogether deserted him, though as you saw him coming towards you, you noticed how one knobbed black boot swung tremulously in front of the other; how there was a shadow between his waistcoat and his trousers; how he leant forward unsteadily, like an old horse who finds himself suddenly out of the shafts drawing no cart. But as Mr. ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf
... heart beating tremulously, stepping reverently, as one enters the aisle of some dim cathedral, Helen advanced into the sacred circle. And then she stood quite still. What she had expected to find there she could not have told, ...
— The Red Cross Girl • Richard Harding Davis
... light from the room within. At the sound of the pony's hoofs on the rough island road, as the animal moved, the curtains were parted for a few inches only. Through the gap in the dark draperies a wan white hand appeared; waved tremulously a last farewell; and vanished from my view. The curtains closed again on her dark and solitary life. The dreary wind sounded its long, low dirge over the rippling waters of the lake. The ponies took their places in the ferryboat which was kept for the passage of animals to and from ...
— The Two Destinies • Wilkie Collins
... She laughed somewhat tremulously. Violet's vindictive thrust had embarrassed rather than hurt her. She looked at the great square shoulders that intervened between her eyes and the morning sunshine, and wondered why he did not turn. Was it possible that he could be feeling embarrassed ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell
... Lois exclaimed tremulously. "You know very well that you don't care. It is all pretence, this. Why do you do it? Why do ...
— The Moving Finger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... ankles!" He looked around with a slight scowl at one man, who seemed taken with a sudden softening of the spine and knees, and who turned his back quickly and fell against another, who, also with his back turned, was leaning tremulously against a pillar. ...
— Dr. Sevier • George W. Cable
... but, with her woman's tact, exhibited no astonishment at what she saw; nor did she, after entering a busy street, show that she had ever been accustomed to a scene less lively. They drove straightway to the jail, and when tremulously she inquired for Jasper, they told her ...
— The Starbucks • Opie Percival Read
... tremulously with the hem of her apron. "I would be thinking," she faltered, "it will be the day—the ...
— The Silver Maple • Marian Keith
... astonishment, the manufacturer, who sat the farthest from me in the same line with Mrs. Makely, the professor, and the banker, rose and asked, tremulously: "And have—have you had any direct communication with the other world? Has any disembodied spirit returned to testify of the life beyond ...
— A Traveler from Altruria: Romance • W. D. Howells
... strength to tell it, I'll tell you all." Then faintly she began her sad narrative, and unreservedly unfolded the story of her life, from the unfortunate day of her marriage, on through each succeeding year of sorrow, till she came at last, tremulously, to its sad close. Calmly she told how her father had discarded her; of the removal of her husband's father to France, where his family still remained; of Emile's misfortune, persecution, and forced ...
— Leah Mordecai • Mrs. Belle Kendrick Abbott
... melted into it, and harmonised it with the water green and translucent. The sea sucked about the shingle with little sudden sighs; the sails of the pleasure boat waved in the fairy-like depths, and all the little brown fishing-boats lay becalmed, heaving tremulously like tired butterflies upon the breast of a blue flower. The nursemaids lay together on the shingle, and their novels slipped down the stones to their feet. The children played with the tide and the sand. There were crowds of women—Jewesses with loud dresses: ...
— Spring Days • George Moore
... expression of the strongest emotion, while, with a shaking hand and pointing finger, he directed her looks to the mansion from which they were driving; and when they faced it from the coach-window, as they turned into Streatham Common, tremulously exclaimed, "That house ...is lost to me... for ever."' Johnson's letter to Langton of March 20, 1782 (ante, p. 145), in which he says that he was 'musing in his chamber at Mrs. Thrale's,' shews that so early as that date he foresaw that a change was coming. Boswell's statement ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell
... through her tears. "I'll try to forgive you," she said, tremulously; "but you must promise to give up your ...
— Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch • Alice Caldwell Hegan
... not enough, and Norma would come impatiently to the end of her pondering with the same fretted sense of dissatisfaction. It was not enough to be tremulously praised by old Aunt Marianna, to be joked by Chris, greeted by Alice, his wife, with a friendly smile. Norma wanted to belong to this life, to be admired and sought by Leslie, rather than endured; to have the ...
— The Beloved Woman • Kathleen Norris
... half west," Eric said a little tremulously to the helmsman, as they came in sight of Sankaty Head on ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... back, feeling a long forgotten youth trickle into his veins. In front of him the stream dodged round great boulders and vanished into the woods, flecked with foam from the falls whose wash came tremulously through the wilderness. The sky overhead was translucent with the half light of sunset and he felt a delicious languor stealing over him. For three hours Stoughton, Riggs and he had fished to their hearts' content, ...
— The Rapids • Alan Sullivan
... speed. He dismounted, sat down upon a stone, partially covered his face with his hand, and tried to bring himself to look at the two lovers. At last, when he perceived that Thurstane was eating and Clara merely kneeling by, he walked tremulously toward them, ...
— Overland • John William De Forest
... and a sad look brooded over the pale white face; but the meek voice continued, perhaps somewhat tremulously, "Not always, Dick; but that is in the wicked hours, when I am full of sinful, rebellious thoughts. Some days like just now, however, his goodness seems to stand out in a bright, clear light, and a great hush of peace falling on me, I find myself whispering over and over again, ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
... not hear anything, Jack, dear, except these terrible gusts that cry past the corners of the house," said Jessie, tremulously. ...
— Earth's Enigmas - A Volume of Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts
... heard from the first physician that my friend was entirely free from opium, and, though still suffering, was steadily on the mend. I had no further news from him till I was called to his bedside by a note which said he feared he was dying, pencilled in a hand as tremulously illegible as the confession of Guy Fawkes. I was with him by the earliest train I could take, after arranging with a neighbor for my practice, and found him in a condition which led him to say, as I myself said at ...
— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day
... a little tremulously, "I wouldn't let my houses to such people. It's not right; is it? Why, it's horrid to think of men getting drunk, ...
— Little Classics, Volume 8 (of 18) - Mystery • Various
... made pilgrimage to the Holy Places—he is now Abbot of the Lung-Cho Monastery—gave it me,' stammered the lama. 'He spoke of these.' His lean hand moved tremulously round. ...
— Kim • Rudyard Kipling
... drawn and haggard, and his lashes, long and soft and thick, lay against a skin drained of every particle of color. A sudden choking sob rose to the girl's lips, but she managed to force it back, and when the man's lids slowly lifted, she smiled tremulously. ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... white doors fastened with long iron bars. The bungalow was a very solid one, but the partition walls of the rooms were almost jerry-built in their flimsiness. Every step or bang of a trunk echoed from my room down the other three, and every footfall came back tremulously from the far walls. For this reason I shut the door. There were no lamps—only candles in long glass shades. An oil wick was set ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... Julia's very coldness still was kind, And tremulously gentle her small hand Withdrew itself from his, but left behind A little pressure, thrilling, and so bland And slight, so very slight, that to the mind 'T was but a doubt; but ne'er magician's wand Wrought change with all Armida's[48] ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... his desk, bit his fingers, looked out of the window, got up and sat down again. Finally he said tremulously: "Very well, ...
— The Deaves Affair • Hulbert Footner
... these strange folk—was giving her life when another could have been in her place. And she smiled tremulously, bravely, as her eyes locked with his, as, speechless and spellbound, he stared through ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various
... sons, sir," tremulously articulated Matilda, not choosing to trust her tongue with a name that dwelt ever on ...
— The Barbadoes Girl - A Tale for Young People • Mrs. Hofland
... before been threatened by a deadly weapon; though many as deadly a thing had he seen poured into a glass, without winking. And so it seemed to take his heart and life away, and he brought the cordial forth feebly, and stood tremulously before the Colonel, ashy pale, and looking ten years older than his real age, instead of five years younger, as he had seemed just before this disastrous interview ...
— The Dolliver Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... complicated nature—firm as a rock in its will, tremulously sensitive in its sympathies; like some strongly-rooted tree with its stable stem and a green cloud of fluttering foliage that moves in the lightest air. So his spirit rose and fell according to the reception that ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) • Alexander Maclaren
... grey September day, when, on the tail of a country hay-cart, I rode tremulously at my dear father's side into London; where, with much pomp and taking of oaths, I was bound apprentice, body and soul, to Master Robert Walgrave, the printer, in the presence of the worshipful Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the Company of Stationers, who enriched themselves by 2 shillings ...
— Sir Ludar - A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess • Talbot Baines Reed
... forth an appealing hand like a child. "I will come out, Stumpy. I will come out," she said tremulously. ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell
... his office," she answered tremulously. "He telephoned while I was out that he had to work to-night. Oh, Mr. Kennedy—he knows—he knows. I know it. He has avoided me ever since I missed the ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve
... no response. Now that the battle was over, and the victory won, she found herself tremulously on the verge of tears. She rose quickly and went upstairs to her own room, a dim little place shadowed by the white birches growing thickly outside—a virginal room, where everything bespoke the maiden. She lay down on the blue and ...
— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... fluttered tremulously to her cheeks. It seemed to him that she was on the verge of unconsciousness, that the pent emotion was going to prove ...
— The Highgrader • William MacLeod Raine
... here," said Abbleway tremulously; "they could easily break in, these carriages are like matchwood. We ...
— Beasts and Super-Beasts • Saki
... the queen, toying tremulously with the fatal ring, "that little lime-leaf may yet ...
— The Story of Siegfried • James Baldwin
... can they be, Those sounds that hither glide? No lovers whisper tremulously Under the ...
— Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 • George MacDonald
... two long braids over her bosom, could for a moment counteract the effect of her dark glance or the vivid almost unearthly force of her expression. It was as if you saw a flame upstarting before you, waving tremulously here and there, but burning and resistless in its white heat. I took off ...
— A Strange Disappearance • Anna Katharine Green
... Tom!" he said tremulously, the thick tears standing in his eyes. "Don't give way! Be a man! Hold up! Steady! Here, let me take ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli
... had never loved the boy enough, not half so much as he deserved. Her affection was overflowing now—she must make up for all the past. Then, she was afraid, yes, sir, afraid, that her Pascualet, her poor little Rector, would go the way his father went; and as the words hung tremulously upon her lips, she looked off toward the tavern-boat, just visible from the Mayflower's splendid hull, in which that martyr of the sea ...
— Mayflower (Flor de mayo) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... the office doors to the yellow-wheeled buckboard, in the very middle of the walk, he stood and stretched out a tentatively restraining hand, just as mild-voiced, white-haired Dave had done years before. And in his high, cracked falsetto, that was tremulously bitter for all that he struggled to lift it to a plane of ...
— Once to Every Man • Larry Evans
... the front seat of the carriage sat very erect; red spots glowed upon her faded cheeks. "I think," she said tremulously, "that it was just—wonderful! I—I am so very happy to have heard it. Thank you a thousand times, dear Cousin ...
— The Transfiguration of Miss Philura • Florence Morse Kingsley
... fair star extinguish'd quite In rayless night; And, Sion, as thy fortunes I bewail, Harsh sounds my voice, as of the birds that sail The stormy dark. Let but that star be mine, And through the tempest tremulously shine; So, when the brooding clouds have overpast, Rejoicing, with the dawn, may come at last, Even as an instrument, whose lively sound Makes the warm blood in every bosom bound, And whose triumphant notes are given Freely in songs of ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various
... anxious," she murmured, tremulously. "You, too, have had nothing. Shall I fetch you a glass of the old wine? It will ...
— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli
... disappointment and suffering in Helen's white face, reached for her tremulously and drew her to her bosom. "Never mind what they say, Nellie; it was ...
— The Light of the Star - A Novel • Hamlin Garland
... hush in the room. Ned could see Connie's full underlip pouted tremulously and her eyes swimming, her hands moved caressingly to and fro. His face relaxed its passion. The tears came again into his eyes, also. Geisner smoked his cigarette, the most ...
— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller
... be kissing me first," said she, a little tremulously, "and then we will maybe be ...
— The McBrides - A Romance of Arran • John Sillars
... in her chair and gazing before her tremulously, Elaine continued, "Last night, I dreamed that father came to me and told me that if I would give up Kennedy and put my trust in you, I would find the Clutching Hand. I don't know what to think ...
— The Exploits of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve
... tremulously. "Don't think of me! Of me, when your back's gashed with a spear-cut, your head's battered, arm pierced, and we've neither water nor bandages—nothing of any kind to treat ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England
... sorry!" she said tremulously. "Good-by." And turning, she walked with bowed head ...
— Counsel for the Defense • Leroy Scott
... shore, did the big trout venture back to his stronghold. He found it already occupied by a smaller trout, whom he fell upon and devoured, to the assuaging of his appetite and the salving of his wounded dignity. But for days he was tremulously watchful, and ready to dart away if any unusually large shadow passed over his amber ceiling. He was expecting a return of ...
— The Watchers of the Trails - A Book of Animal Life • Charles G. D. Roberts
... I, a trifle tremulously, "that no typewriter so far forgot herself as to admit noticing playfulness ...
— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers
... effects of color. Then the gay tumult of the fifteen minutes of intermission between the parts, when all rose with a susurrus of innumerable silks, and the thousands of pretty singers fluttered about, and gossiped tremulously and delightedly over the glory of the performance, revealing themselves as charming feminine personalities, each with her share in the difficulty and the achievement, each with her pique or pride, and each her something to tell her friend of the conduct, agreeable or ...
— Suburban Sketches • W.D. Howells
... woman took the coin in her thin fingers and held it up close to her eyes. Then she started and her hand shook tremulously. A pallor overspread her face. She sank back into a chair, staring at the coin, which she clutched tight as though it had some strange ...
— The Rival Campers Ashore - The Mystery of the Mill • Ruel Perley Smith
... and the few things were packed up. "Come, Freddie," said Mrs. Davis tremulously, "get on yore hat." The child obeyed. "You 're a-goin' to be Miss Hester's little boy now. You must ...
— The Uncalled - A Novel • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... judged them more rigorously than himself. The critics who have delighted to point at them have been anticipated by the penitent; and their indictment has been little more than the quotation of his own confession. His tremulously susceptible nature, especially assailable by the delights of sense, led him astray. There are traces in his life of occasional craft and untruthfulness which even the exigencies of exile and war do not wholly palliate. Flashes of ...
— The Life of David - As Reflected in His Psalms • Alexander Maclaren
... shook her head. "I can see no one now," she whispered, tremulously. "Ah, I could not ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... flowers. They came to a river where the man bungled over the ford. Two wheels sank down over an edge, and the canvas toppled like a descending kite. The ripple came sucking through the upper spokes, and as she felt the seat careen, she put out her head and tremulously asked if anything was wrong. But the driver was addressing his team with much language, and also with ...
— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister
... pain Begins. Rolled on as in a flood there come Memories of childhood, boyhood, home, And that which, sudden, pangs me most, Thought of the first-belov'd, long lost, Too easy lost! My cold lips frame Tremulously the familiar name, Unheard of her ...
— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various
... a weak woman she would have succumbed again at this. But she was a strong one, and after the first moment of recoil she rose tremulously to her feet and signified her willingness to follow him to the ...
— The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow • Anna Katharine Green
... children, husbands—who shall say where the divine madness of love will cease?—grandfathers, grandmothers—themselves with flickering flame—yes, grandchildren, weeping over the loss of the beloved gray head and tremulously gentle voice—would not all these have blessed God for St Luke's record of what the son of the widow said? For my part, I ...
— Miracles of Our Lord • George MacDonald
... on the floor insensible,"—she went on, tremulously—"And I was very ill for a long time afterwards. People could not understand it when I broke off my engagement. I told nobody why—except HIM. He seemed sorry and a little ashamed,—but I think he was more vexed at losing ...
— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli |
