tremble
verb (used without object)
to shake involuntarily with quick, short movements, as from fear, excitement, weakness, or cold; quake; quiver.
untrembling
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a word derived from
tremble.
Example Sentences
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In the silence that followed, the leader's sword still remained uplifted untrembling in the air.
From The Strong Arm by Robert Barr
The moon filled his mossy cubicle with her untrembling beams, streamed upon blossoms sweet and heavy as Absalom's hair, while tiny plumes wafted into the night the scent of thyme and meadow-sweet.
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by Walter De la Mare
And here is a description of the later spring:— Brow-bound with myrtle and with gold, Spring, sacred now from blasts and blights, Lifts in a firm, untrembling hold Her chalice of fulfilled delights.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various
As she spoke, she cast with untrembling hand the sacred berries into the burning crater, quietly waiting till the spectators should be convinced that no result was to follow.
From The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific by Alfred Pearse
Malcolm’s was steady, as he felt Esclairmonde’s rest in his untrembling, but with the quietness of one who trusted all in all where she trusted at all.
From The Caged Lion by Charlotte Mary Yonge
