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Example sentences for "tremulously"

Lexicographically close words:
tremor; tremors; tremour; trempe; tremulous; tremulousness; tren; trenails; trench; trenchant
  1. They make me afraid," tremulously exclaimed a girl.

  2. 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.

  3. Granny tremulously told her of one thing that Pracht could do.

  4. I don't mean that kind of a queen," murmured Tessie, tremulously conscious to her very toes at having Mr. Bill agree that she was a queen.

  5. He rubbed his chin tremulously and looked about him on the floor.

  6. Dreadful, dreadful," murmured the old Englishman, his hand going tremulously to his chin.

  7. It was soon after this that the thought of Isabel came to her, and tremulously she begged him to go to her.

  8. She answered him tremulously in the affirmative, the dread of her mother still so strong upon her that she could think of nothing but the relief of escape.

  9. It was pleasant to feel that the thought of her possessed him through and through, but she was tremulously glad of that corridor.

  10. The unfortunate shopkeeper grasped his weapon more firmly still, and stood tremulously on the defensive.

  11. His nostrils dilated tremulously as his breath came in quick short gasps.

  12. I can bear it better when I smoke," and he pulled tremulously at his cigarette.

  13. Lydia whirled away for her last look at herself in the glass over the table, and her aunt tremulously began to put to rights some slight disorder in the girl's hat.

  14. Why--why nothing," said Helena, and she smiled a little tremulously at the Flopper.

  15. David Marshall fixed an intent and anxious gaze on his son's face, and ran his hand tremulously along the arm of his chair.

  16. When Eliot paid his usual daily visit she went tremulously to meet him.

  17. But the misery had its origin in the same sensitiveness of nature which was so tremulously alive to soft and delicate emotion.

  18. Jonah grunted assent, and Henry, feeling the moment for a certain vital question had arrived, mopped his wet brow and tremulously approached the matter.

  19. The desire descended in a storm upon her, and shook her so strongly that her voice came, tremulously as bells upon a wind, to utter the quick plan of her imagination.

  20. He evidently meant to say more; but the effort with which he articulated that name robbed him of any voice for amplification, and his whole frame grew tremulously convulsed.

  21. Ned could see Connie's full underlip pouted tremulously and her eyes swimming, her hands moved caressingly to and fro.

  22. Tremulously the exhausted owner lay down upon it, and asked that his supper be sent to his room.

  23. I'm not so sure, ma'am," tremulously doubted Matilda.

  24. Mrs. De Peyster lay dazed upon this strange bed that operated like a lorgnette: tremulously existing, awake, yet hardly capable of coherent thought.

  25. Halfway to the door stood Mr. Pyecroft; and beside him was Miss Gardner, gazing at him, tremulously bewildered.

  26. It was the same voice I heard, but then it had been proud and careless--now it was so tremulously stricken!

  27. And he bent to cold lips that seemed to receive his first kisses as new and strange; but tremulously changed, at last to meet his own, and then to burn with sweet and thrilling fire.

  28. Arthur could only tremulously repeat his 'Thank you,' but there was a hesitation that alarmed his mother.

  29. For once she did not attend; and while Theodora came forward and answered Mrs. Nesbit, she tremulously asked John if he had seen the child.

  30. Tremulously she penned her answer to his appeal, but was it Fate again, which caused the letter to miscarry?

  31. He caught the rung of Tim's chair, and lifted himself tremulously to an upright posture.

  32. He went and fastened the shutter, while his mother tremulously mended the fire.

  33. She waited tremulously the meeting of the two men--these two who should pay so dear to her what she had received in injustice.

  34. On the hat-rack was a disordered heap of letters which other girls tremulously would come to sort.

  35. He saw her with hands clasped over her breast, standing tremulously sweet, swaying with fear of his coming.

  36. She knew not and asked not in what this happiness was to consist, and yet her heart yearned for it; she called for this unknown and nameless happiness with a throbbing bosom and tremulously whispering lips!

  37. Elizabeth shrank from these low whisperings of her conscience, and she tremulously said: "I will not listen to it!

  38. My Julia," she tremulously said, "can you seriously think of leaving me?

  39. To be a princess and yet an orphan, a poor, deserted, helpless child, living upon the charity of a friend, and tremulously clinging to his protecting hand!


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tremulously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    fitfully; jerkily; spasmodically