tressaillir
- Examples
Deux ou trois jours après une crise, ma tête et ma main tressaillaient encore. | Two or three days after a seizure, my head and my hand would still be twitching. |
Les coins de ses lèvres tressaillaient sans fin, et ses mots se faufilèrent entre ses dents serrées. | The corners of his lips twitched endlessly, and his words were squeezed through clenched teeth. |
Ils étaient remplis d'étonnement et leurs coeurs tressaillaient d'allégresse. | They were filled with amazement, and their hearts began to throb with joyful expectation. |
Souvent, le jour du sabbat, dans la synagogue, on l'invitait à lire un fragment des prophètes, et les coeurs des auditeurs tressaillaient en voyant jaillir une nouvelle lumière des paroles connues du texte sacré. | And often in the synagogue on the Sabbath day He was called upon to read the lesson from the prophets, and the hearts of the hearers thrilled as a new light shone out from the familiar words of the sacred text. |
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