She trembled at the thought of being overpowered by men she loathed.
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He took her hand in his, and Agnes trembled at the intimacy of the act.
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She said she trembled at the thought of her son serving under such a volatile president.
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As Greece improves, Italy is showing signs of weakness; markets have trembled at its growing debts and a costly-looking government agenda.
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" Last February, during Mr. Trump's rise toward the Republican nomination, Mr. Howard said that he "trembled at the thought of Trump being president.
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When Obama got to the White House, Republicans trembled at his midichlorian count, but their fear faded as he grew more professorial and remote.
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His speech halted and his hands trembled at first, but he quickly gained confidence as he began offering statistics about the vast overrepresentation of African-Americans behind bars.
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No > one regarded anything besides his cruel gains. No one trembled at the > remembrance of a similar event. No one did to another what he himself wished > to experience.Pontius of Carthage, Life of Cyprian. Transl.
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This and a later second explosion were powerful enough to be recorded by seismographs at the Colaba Observatory in the city. Sensors recorded that the earth trembled at Shimla,Ennis, John.p.84 a city located at a distance of over 1,700 km. The shower of burning material set fire to slums in the area.
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Deciding that the sage would have to be distracted from his penances, he sent the apsara Menaka to work her charms. Menaka trembled at the thought of angering such a powerful ascetic, but she obeyed the god's order. As she approached Viswamitra, the wind god Vayu tore away her garments. Seeing her thus disrobed, the sage abandoned himself to lust.
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In 1954, "Crime at Blossoms", scripted by Jerome Ross, was given an Edgar Award for Best Episode in a TV Series. Nathaniel Hawthorne's granddaughter received a plaque in recognition of her grandfather's writing achievements during the April 3, 1950 telecast of The Scarlet Letter. "The Night America Trembled"Westinghouse Studio One's "The Night America Trembled" at archive.org was Studio Ones September 9, 1957 top-rated television recreation of Orson Welles' October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.
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Jesus pressed his inquiry and the woman came and trembled at his feet; she explained her reason and declared amid the crowd what blessing had come to her. Jesus treated her as having worth, not rebuking her for what the Levitical code of holiness would have considered as defiling him. Rather, he relieved her of any sense of guilt for her seemingly rash act, lifted her up and called her "Daughter." He told her that her faith saved her, gave her his love, and sent her away whole.
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The cities of Sumer had a legacy of intercity warfare, and the tools of these wars have been found in graves, such as copper axes and blades. The first chariot was used extensively, and the Sumerians possessed a dynamic and innovative military. Early cavalry were employed as shock troops, needed to punch holes into the enemy lines to allow infantry to penetrate them, isolate pockets and eliminate them. They were also used to harass enemy flanks, and sometimes outflank enemies, and most armies trembled at the sight of a chariot force.
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"Her mother, who feared the inconvenience of a brat, came to my aid, and she [Thérèse] allowed herself to be overcome" (Confessions). In his letter to Madame de Francueil in 1751, he first pretended that he wasn't rich enough to raise his children, but in Book IX of the Confessions he gave the true reasons of his choice: "I trembled at the thought of intrusting them to a family ill brought up, to be still worse educated. The risk of the education of the foundling hospital was much less". Thérèse Levasseur 1791 Ten years later, Rousseau made inquiries about the fate of his son, but no record could be found.
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As for the administrators of the System of Government which offers such services, to Herbert, the vast majority are self-interested nincompoops, and the system reliably self-perpetuating due to a more-or-less indefinite supply of same, viz: :Dr Aintee held no high opinion of the great black and brindle family he fathered, nor viewed their plight with sentiment, not understanding their plight nor being expected to do so by his employer, the Government. Like his employer, he regarded them merely as marsupials being routed by a pack of dingoes; and he understood that his duty was merely to protect them from undue violence during the rout. Most of the dingoes hated him for interfering with their rights as the stronger animals; the marsupials regarded him as a sort of devil-devil, and trembled at mention of his name. Thus he was loved by few; but he was well enough paid to be careless of what was thought of him; his salary amounted to about a quarter of the total expenditure on Aboriginal Affairs in Capricornia.
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