Sentence examples for knees shaking from inspiring English sources

"Why are my knees shaking?" Mr. Nederlander said after slowly making his way onstage.

Jem said quietly, "My sister ain't dirty and I ain't scared of you," although I noticed his knees shaking.

From my vantage point, however, I could see her white-knuckled hands gripping the lectern, her knees shaking.

– but it was a Grimm, silent, 30-minute hike that finally returned us to the funicular station, knees shaking and chastened.

It has been that way for generations, with Cup veterans telling horror stories about how they once stood on the first tee with knees shaking, pulse racing and a trembling hand barely able to put the ball on the tee.

Why not stay?' " "Father Brackley said 'he felt called to continue the work' of those slain," Father Connelly said, though he told a New York Newsday columnist in 1990 that in some ways he was torn: "My body began to factor it in before my head — I found my knees shaking, without really knowing why".

Each time he took a step forward, his knees shook, and he steadied himself against the wall with both hands.

Knees shook as the female, about 20 yards away, peered at the spot where the visitors — lacking weapons or vehicle of escape — were waiting.

When Jiri leaves, she describes his parting kiss in a letter to Harriet, saying that it "made my knees shake so I could hardly go upstairs".

"I felt my knees shake like castanets," said the woman standing vigil at Bonfire No. 17, Rocio, who, like others here, withheld her last name for fear of reprisals by the criminal networks they are resisting.

Pierre Kosmidis, a media official with the organizing committee, recalls the moment the roof finally began to inch its way into place a few weeks ago: "I felt my knees shake".