atremble

adj

atremble

adj

Etymology From a- + tremble.

1

Trembling.

When the poplar leaves atremble Turn their edges to the light,1863, Jean Ingelow, “Afternoon at a Parsonage”, in Poems, London: Logmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, page 174:
To Jurgis this man’s whole presence reeked of the crime he had committed; the touch of his body […] set every nerve of him a-tremble […]1906, Upton Sinclair, chapter 15, in The Jungle, New York: Doubleday, Page, page 181:

2 more examples

[…] he beheld a tear a-tremble on her eyelid.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 25, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
When her stomach felt better (but her legs were all atremble again, something lost, something gained), she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror.1982, Stephen King, Cujo, page 45:

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