tremblingly-spoken

Updated: June 8, 2025

But to my employers, I felt, it must sound both businesslike and straightforward; quite as straightforward, I feared, as my own equally exact but tremblingly-spoken story. "You hear what Hawkesbury says?" said Mr Merrett, turning to me. I roused myself with an effort, and answered quietly, "Yes, sir." "What have you to say to it?" "That it is false from beginning to end."

Talbot Baines Reed - My Friend Smith: A Story of School and City Life