"Trembler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to her spirit and grateful to her sensibility, were the scenes which her fancy delineated; now she supported an orphan, now softened the sorrows of a widow, now snatched from iniquity the feeble trembler at poverty, and now rescued from shame the proud struggler with disgrace. The prospect at once exalted her hopes, and enraptured her imagination; she regarded herself as an agent of Charity, and already in idea anticipated the rewards of a good and faithful delegate; so ...
— Cecilia Volume 1 • Frances Burney
... soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me ...
— The Three Brontes • May Sinclair
... were, it is a fact that, when I was at Genoa, Signor Gherardi, one of their secretaries of state, very seriously told me, "Monsieur, vous m'avez fait trembler quoique je ne vous ai jamais vu. Sir, you have made me tremble although I never saw you before." And when I smiled and assured him that I was just a simple traveller, he shook his head; but said, he had very authentick information ...
— Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica • James Boswell
... more powerful than his will, who sees daggers in the air and ghosts in the banquet-hall, who has moral weakness and physical courage, and who—as our guest represented him—alternates perpetually between terror and daring—a trembler when oppressed by his conscience, and a warrior when defied by his foe. But in this and in all that numberless crowd of characters which is too fresh in your memories for me to enumerate, we don't so much say ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various
... look and its effect, and drawing the little trembler closer to him, he put his arm around her, and stroking her hair, said in a low, soothing tone: "Don't be frightened, daughter; ...
— Elsie Dinsmore • Martha Finley
... accordingly sets out on his journey toward the great man's house. As he approaches it, however, his limbs grow feeble, his heart beats high, and he lacks courage to go near and knock. He halts, and is about to turn back in despair. What would suffice to encourage the trembler at that moment, and bear him through? If then and there he could in any way be thoroughly convinced that the man whom he formerly injured, and therefore now dreads, is not only in general tender-hearted and open-handed, but is at that moment specifically ...
— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot
... Euryalus performs: The thirst of blood his bosom warms; 'Mid nameless multitudes he storms, Herbesus, Fadus, Abaris kills Slumbering and witless of their ills, While Rhoetus wakes and sees the whole, But hides behind a massy bowl. There, as to rise the trembler strove, Deep in his breast the sword he drove, And bathed in death withdrew. The lips disgorge the life's red flood, A mingled stream of wine and blood: He plies his blade anew. Now turns he to Messapus' ...
— National Epics • Kate Milner Rabb
... which to the trembler in the bed seemed time for a death-warrant. Then the quiet ...
— The Forest Lovers • Maurice Hewlett
... poor trembler on life's stormy sea, Where dark the waves of sin and sorrow roll, To Him for refuge from the tempest flee,— To Him, confiding, trust the sinking soul; For O, He came to calm the tempest-tossed, To seek the wandering, and ...
— Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader - Being Selections from the Chief American Writers • Benj. N. Martin
... Alcides' son, a Chief Dauntless and huge, against a godlike foe Sarpedon. They approaching face to face 750 Stood, son and grandson of high-thundering Jove, And, haughty, thus Tlepolemus began. Sarpedon, leader of the Lycian host, Thou trembler! thee what cause could hither urge A man unskill'd in arms? They falsely speak 755 Who call thee son of AEgis-bearing Jove, So far below their might thou fall'st who sprang From Jove in days of old. What says report Of Hercules (for him I boast my sire) All-daring hero with ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer
... cxengxustigilo | chehn-joosti-ghee'lo charge, to | sxargi | shahr'ghee chassis | cxasio | chah-see'oh chauffeur, driver | veturigisto | vehtoo-reeghist'oh claw | ungo | oon'go contact-breaker | kontakt-rompilo | kontahkt'-rompee'lo (trembler) | | driving pinion | pelrado | pehl-rah'doh elbow | kubuto | kooboo'toh electric motor | elektra motoro | ehlek'tra motohr'o evaporate, to | vaporigxi | vahpohr-ee'jee exhaust | gasforfluo | gahss-fohrfloo'oh exhaust-box | silentigujo | seelehn-tigoo'yo (silencer) ...
— Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation • William W. Mann
... meanwhile, on hillock-side, Bleat to her young—so loudly cried, She heard it not when it replied. Ho, ho!—a feast! I 'gan to croak, Alighting straightway on an oak; Whence gloatingly I eyed aslant The little trembler lie and pant. Leapt nimbly thence upon its head; Down its white nostril bubbled red A gush of blood; ere life had fled, My beak was buried in its eyes, Turned tearfully upon the skies— Strong grew my croak, ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 • Various |
