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Pistorius is reported to have been trembling and sobbing as Nair summarized the defense’s case.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2013

So now, three hundred feet in the night and rising higher, while he should have been trembling, he was not.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

Alberich and Mime, who have been trembling with fear as long as the conflict raged, now timidly venture out of their respective hiding places.

From Stories of the Wagner Opera by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

And it is at such formidable arguments as this that some of us have been trembling, fearing lest the very foundations must give way under the attack!

From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Jennings, Frederick Charles

They must have been trembling with fear in their Ministries—all those men with fiendish hearts.

From Under Western Eyes by Conrad, Joseph