Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Tremble
Trembled as though she were going to commit a wicked action.
—Hans Christian Andersen
Trembled as a flame blown by the wind.
—Anonymous
Trembled like a hymn.
—Anonymous
Trembling like needle to the pole.
—Anonymous
Trembled … like some high oak by a fierce tempest shaken.
—Anonymous
Tremble like the body of a guitar.
—Anonymous
Trembled like cold jelly.
—Anonymous
Trembled like the devil.
—Anonymous
Trembled like the strings of a violin.
—Anonymous
Trembles …
As the distracted herd, when they the lion meet.
—Arabic
She trembled, like the stem of a reed.
—Assyrian
Trembling like a man with the palsy.
—J. M. Barrie
Trembles like the luv-smitten harte ov a damsell.
—Josh Billings
Trembling, as sunshine comes through aspen-leaves.
—R. D. Blackmore
Trembled like a folded sheep at the bleating of her lamb.
—R. D. Blackmore
Tremble, like the trembling of an arch ere the key-stone is put in.
—R. D. Blackmore
Trembling, like water after sunset.
—R. D. Blackmore
Tremble … like a netted lioness.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Trembling like a tub of size.
—Robert Browning
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
Trembling like an ague.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Trembled as at an earthquake.
—Giosuè Carducci
Trembling like a frightened deer which is seeking a place of refuge.
—Lewis Carroll
Tremble like a fragile reed.
—Eliza Cook
Tremble like dew on violet’s leaves.
—Eliza Cook
Tremble,
Like the loose wrack in the sky,
When the four wild winds assemble.
—Barry Cornwall
Trembling, as if eternity were hung
In balance on his conduct.
—William Cowper
Tremble, as the creatures of an hour
Ought at the view of almighty pow’r.
—William Cowper
Trembling like an Eastern slave before the pasha.
—William E. Curtis
Trembling like a bridal veil.
—Aubrey De Vere
Trembling like a little child.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
Trembling as the dewy rose the wind has shaken.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tremble like the stars in the sky.
—Thomas Hood
Trembles like a reed in flower.
—Victor Hugo
Trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of the storm.
—Victor Hugo
Trembling, like Paris, on the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution.
—Victor Hugo
Trembled like a thing about to die.
—Jean Ingelow
Tremble as a trembling leaf.
—Jayadeva
Trembling like a falcon’s game.
—Robert U. Johnson
Trembling like an aspen-bough.
—John Keats
Trembles like a harp full strung.
—Sidney Lanier
A-tremble like a new-born thing.
—Sidney Lanier
Fell a-trembling like as the lips of lady that forth falters yes.
—Sidney Lanier
Tremble like a shot pigeon.
—Alfred Henry Lewis
Trembling … like beauty shining through a tear.
—John Leyden
Trembling like a steed before the start.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Trembling, like a man that loves to be a soldier, yet is afraid of a gun.
—Charles Macklin
Lips trembled like those of a man caught in the act of doing wrong.
—Guy de Maupassant
Trembled as a man in fear.
—William Morris
Trembling like a hunted prey.
—Thomas Otway
Trembling like a leaf in a hurricane.
—Ouida
Trembling like a coward.
—Samuel Richardson
Trembled like a frightened child.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Trembled like a freezing man.
—W. Clark Russell
Tremble like aspen leaves.
—William Shakespeare
Trembled
Like ten thousand clouds which flow
With one wide wind.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Like a clipp’d guinea, trembles in the scale.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Trembled like a lambe fled from prey.
—Edmund Spenser
Tremble as with love that casts out fear.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Trembled like a stricken thrall.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Tremble like lute-strings.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Trembling, like fiery light on crisped streams.
—Frederick Tennyson
Tremble, like the light that strikes the zenith when the sun is down.
—Frederick Tennyson
Trembling, like those battlements of stone
That fell in fear when Joshua’s horns were blown.
—Henry Van Dyke
Trembling like a storm-struck tree.
—Theodore Watts-Dunton
Trembles like a tender spark.
—Theodore Watts-Dunton
Tremble in the sunny skies,
As if, from waving bough to bough,
Flitted the birds of paradise.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Tremble like a guilty thing surprised.
—William Wordsworth
Trembling, as if with fear of some unconfessed peril, which she felt to be near at hand.
—Émile Zola