trembled

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To open its tenth TV season, CBS's Studio One last week tackled the difficult chore of re-enacting the event from an uneven script called The Night America Trembled.

From Time Magazine Archive

Low laughed the Columbine, Trembled her petals fine As the breeze blew; In her dove-heart there stirred Murmurs the dull bee heard, And Love, Life's wild white bird, Straightway she knew.

From A Woman's Love Letters by Hensley, Sophia Margaret

So from each Of those two pillars which from earth uphold Our childhood, one had fall'n away, and all The careful burthen of our tender years Trembled upon the other.

From The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The victor chief Trembled, he knew not why; the trumpet ceased Its clangor, and the crimson streamer waved No more in folds insulting to the Lord Of the reposing world.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George

Nigher the sound came, and more nigh, Until the King unwittingly Trembled, and felt his hair arise, But on the door still kept his eyes.

From The Earthly Paradise A Poem by Morris, William