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The Duke of Marlborough is said to have quaked in the saddle as he rode into action, saying: "This poor body trembles at what the mind within is about to do."

From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.

Bill may have quaked inwardly as he listened to this epic but outwardly he was unmoved.

From Indiscretions of Archie by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Surely men of mettle less heroic than that of the four knights from Rhineland would have quaked with fear in such a presence.

From The Story of Siegfried by Baldwin, James

Woods—into whose inmost recesses we should have quaked alone to penetrate, in his company were glad as gardens, through their most awful umbrage; and there was beauty in the shadows of the old oaks.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

Through His power the foundations of religions have quaked and the Nightingale of Utterance hath warbled its melody upon the highest branch of true understanding.

From Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh