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
An arrow on the string he laid, And rushing near the bird surveyed, While earth to ocean's distant side Trembled beneath his furious stride.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Long time hath Oedipus, a homeless man, Trembled with fear of slaying Polybus.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
We can very easily imagine how, in the breeze at the entrance to some subterranean descent, "A ghostly rank Of poplars, like a halted train of shades, Trembled."
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
Her song was hushed; for tenderer thoughts Than ever were bodied in word or sound, Trembled like stars in her downcast eyes, As she knit in the dark yarn round and round.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 by Various
