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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Tremble
 
  Trembled as though she were going to commit a wicked action.
            —Hans Christian Andersen		  1
  Trembled as a flame blown by the wind.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Trembled like a hymn.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Trembling like needle to the pole.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Trembled … like some high oak by a fierce tempest shaken.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Tremble like the body of a guitar.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Trembled like cold jelly.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Trembled like the devil.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Trembled like the strings of a violin.
            —Anonymous		  9
                Trembles …
As the distracted herd, when they the lion meet.
            —Arabic		  10
  She trembled, like the stem of a reed.
            —Assyrian		  11
  Trembling like a man with the palsy.
            —J. M. Barrie		  12
  Trembles like the luv-smitten harte ov a damsell.
            —Josh Billings		  13
  Trembling, as sunshine comes through aspen-leaves.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  14
  Trembled like a folded sheep at the bleating of her lamb.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  15
  Tremble, like the trembling of an arch ere the key-stone is put in.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  16
  Trembling, like water after sunset.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  17
  Tremble … like a netted lioness.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  18
  Trembling like a tub of size.
            —Robert Browning		  19
  As a fish taken from his watery home and thrown in the dry ground, our thought trembles all over in order to escape the dominion of Mara [the tempter].
            —Buddha		  20
  Trembling like an ague.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  21
  Trembled as at an earthquake.
            —Giosuè Carducci		  22
  Trembling like a frightened deer which is seeking a place of refuge.
            —Lewis Carroll		  23
  Tremble like a fragile reed.
            —Eliza Cook		  24
  Tremble like dew on violet’s leaves.
            —Eliza Cook		  25
                Tremble,
Like the loose wrack in the sky,
When the four wild winds assemble.
            —Barry Cornwall		  26
Trembling, as if eternity were hung
In balance on his conduct.
            —William Cowper		  27
Tremble, as the creatures of an hour
Ought at the view of almighty pow’r.
            —William Cowper		  28
  Trembling like an Eastern slave before the pasha.
            —William E. Curtis		  29
  Trembling like a bridal veil.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  30
  Trembling like a little child.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  31
  Trembling as the dewy rose the wind has shaken.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  32
  Tremble like the stars in the sky.
            —Thomas Hood		  33
  Trembles like a reed in flower.
            —Victor Hugo		  34
  Trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of the storm.
            —Victor Hugo		  35
  Trembling, like Paris, on the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution.
            —Victor Hugo		  36
  Trembled like a thing about to die.
            —Jean Ingelow		  37
  Tremble as a trembling leaf.
            —Jayadeva		  38
  Trembling like a falcon’s game.
            —Robert U. Johnson		  39
  Trembling like an aspen-bough.
            —John Keats		  40
  Trembles like a harp full strung.
            —Sidney Lanier		  41
  A-tremble like a new-born thing.
            —Sidney Lanier		  42
  Fell a-trembling like as the lips of lady that forth falters yes.
            —Sidney Lanier		  43
  Tremble like a shot pigeon.
            —Alfred Henry Lewis		  44
  Trembling … like beauty shining through a tear.
            —John Leyden		  45
  Trembling like a steed before the start.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  46
  Trembling, like a man that loves to be a soldier, yet is afraid of a gun.
            —Charles Macklin		  47
  Lips trembled like those of a man caught in the act of doing wrong.
            —Guy de Maupassant		  48
  Trembled as a man in fear.
            —William Morris		  49
  Trembling like a hunted prey.
            —Thomas Otway		  50
  Trembling like a leaf in a hurricane.
            —Ouida		  51
  Trembling like a coward.
            —Samuel Richardson		  52
  Trembled like a frightened child.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  53
  Trembled like a freezing man.
            —W. Clark Russell		  54
  Tremble like aspen leaves.
            —William Shakespeare		  55
                Trembled
Like ten thousand clouds which flow
With one wide wind.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  56
  Like a clipp’d guinea, trembles in the scale.
            —Richard Brinsley Sheridan		  57
  Trembled like a lambe fled from prey.
            —Edmund Spenser		  58
  Tremble as with love that casts out fear.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  59
  Trembled like a stricken thrall.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  60
  Tremble like lute-strings.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  61
  Trembling, like fiery light on crisped streams.
            —Frederick Tennyson		  62
  Tremble, like the light that strikes the zenith when the sun is down.
            —Frederick Tennyson		  63
Trembling, like those battlements of stone
That fell in fear when Joshua’s horns were blown.
            —Henry Van Dyke		  64
  Trembling like a storm-struck tree.
            —Theodore Watts-Dunton		  65
  Trembles like a tender spark.
            —Theodore Watts-Dunton		  66
Tremble in the sunny skies,
As if, from waving bough to bough,
Flitted the birds of paradise.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  67
  Tremble like a guilty thing surprised.
            —William Wordsworth		  68
  Trembling, as if with fear of some unconfessed peril, which she felt to be near at hand.
            —Émile Zola		  69
 
 
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