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

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

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

Mountain and wood and solitary peak, The ships Achaian, and the towers of Troy, Trembled beneath the god’s immortal feet.

From On the Sublime by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)

Skimmed the half-frozen Sound, That the poor whimpering hound Trembled to walk on.

From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth