With a quaking finger, Mr. Huang traces the line of a wound across his chest.
One in particular was The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which my father delivered with a quaking voice - especially the last line: "And like a thunderbolt he falls".
In "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye," Cagney, now middle-age and slightly paunchy, whips his companion (Barbara Payton) with a wet towel, and she falls into his embrace with a quaking, masochistic abandon.
Their nephew, Gianni Nardelli, was among what officials said were 56 children, some as young as 4, some in the midst of a Halloween party, inside the school when an quake with a magnitude of 5.4 hit the Molise region early this afternoon, doing its greatest damage here.
The earthquake, along with a magnitude 5.8 quake on the New York Ontario border during 1944, is the largest to have occurred in the U.S. east of the Rocky Mountains since an earthquake centered in Giles County in western Virginia occurred during 1897, with an estimated magnitude of 5.8.
The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6, struck one month after a quake with a 7.6 magnitude killed at least 844 people and left thousands homeless in this small Central American nation of 6.2 million people.
The agency also reported a quake with a magnitude of 4.8 about half an hour later.
On Sunday, a quake with a magnitude of 6.2 hit the same area.
In 1995, a quake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck farther south in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula.
