Example Sentences

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But I am quaking as I make my way up the stairs to the stage.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

"Ah, how can I, when I am quaking like a jelly with my terror?"

From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

I wore out my body's endurance, and now I am quaking like a boy.

From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

"Oh," laughed the girl a little nervously, "you do not know how I am quaking inwardly."

From A Mating in the Wilds by Binns, Ottwell