"Trembler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seen a feeble lambkin, Shrinking from a wolf so bold, Would ye not to shield the trembler, In your arms have ...
— The Underground Railroad • William Still
... Sylvia, restless, and talking to the trees of Sylvia, sighing her charming name, circling with folded arms my panting heart, (that beats and trembles the more, the nearer it approaches the happy Bellfont) and fortifying the feeble trembler against a sight so ravishing and surprising; I fear to be sustain'd with life; but if I faint in Sylvia's arms, it will be happier far than all the glories of ...
— Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister • Aphra Behn
... Jesus looked at the trembler: "Why, then, am I come? Why, then, do I show you how light the burden is? Do you not see for yourselves how free a man is when he has thrown off great cares and desires? Nay, you will never see that till the grace of God is ...
— I.N.R.I. - A prisoner's Story of the Cross • Peter Rosegger
... puisse sous toi trembler la terre entire: Ainsi puisse jamais contre tes ennemis Le bruit de ta valeur te servir de barrire! S'ils t'attaquent, qu'ils ...
— Esther • Jean Racine
... to her spirit and grateful to her sensibility, were the scenes which her fancy delineated; now she supported an orphan, now softened the sorrows of a widow, now snatched from iniquity the feeble trembler at poverty, and now rescued from shame the proud struggler with disgrace. The prospect at once exalted her hopes, and enraptured her imagination; she regarded herself as an agent of Charity, and already in idea anticipated the rewards of a good and faithful delegate; so animating ...
— Cecilia Volume 1 • Frances Burney
... new inspirations as to his character, there had grown up a new flower in her garden of beauties—timidity! What bird of the air had sown the seed in such a soil was a problem to herself—but true it was!—the confident belle had grown a blushing trembler! She would as soon have thought of bespeaking her wings for the sky, as to have ventured on naming the day in ...
— Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) • Constance Fenimore Woolson
... by this call that he is no trembler. Hasten to him, for, if thou delayest, perhaps he may doubt the strength of his charms, and hell will lose the fruits of his temerity. Truly, the fellow is such a genius, that I ...
— Faustus - his Life, Death, and Doom • Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger |
