The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands is a collection of short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, first published in New York...
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Rain (short story) (category Short stories set in the Pacific Ocean)
magazine The Smart Set, and was included in the collection of stories by Maugham The Trembling of a Leaf. The story is set on a Pacific island: a missionary's...
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30 July 2014. "The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands". Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved...
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describes male characters of a genial, sociable, and hard-drinking temperament (e.g., Of Human Bondage, The Trembling of a Leaf, and Then and Now). In contemporary...
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W. Somerset Maugham (redirect from The Tenth Man (Maugham play))
stories (The Trembling of a Leaf (1921), The Casuarina Tree (1926) and Ashenden (1928)) and a travel book (On a Chinese Screen, (1922)) but much of his work...
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Xavier de Maistre (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
in the second sentence of the short story "Honolulu", collected in The Trembling of a Leaf (1921) by W. Somerset Maugham: "The wise traveller travels...
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to face with Perón: "I was speechless. I felt a chill run through my body. I began to tremble like a leaf (...) I had been stunned by his simplicity and...
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Jack Lawrence (songwriter) (category United States Merchant Mariners of World War II)
Manhattan hotels. Dawning of Love was featured in Ray Hartley's first album titled after the first track The Trembling of a Leaf (Johnny Green / Jack Lawrence)...
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A Comedy in Four Acts is a play by W. Somerset Maugham. It was written around 1902 before being adapted into the novel The Bishop's Apron (1906). The...
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Aspen (redirect from Longevity of aspen trees)
tall. In North America, the aspen is referred to as quaking aspen or trembling aspen because the leaves "quake" or tremble in the wind. This is due to their...
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The Land of Promise is a 1917 American silent comedy drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed...
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Lewis Balfour Oatts (category Members of the Royal Company of Archers)
just as quickly: “One moment they were there, the next they were gone, without even the trembling of a leaf to mark their passage. “They went into battle...
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Salvia officinalis (redirect from Sage leaf)
strengtheneth the sinews, restoreth health to those that have the palsy, and taketh away shakey trembling of the members." Gervase Markham's The English Huswife...
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Regina Alcindor (category Members of the National Assembly (Seychelles))
known at the time. Alcindor made her first public speech for the 1998 general elections on mother’s day. “I was raw, afraid and trembling like a leaf and thought...
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Nervilia crociformis (category Orchids of Queensland)
Nervilia crociformis, commonly known as the trembling nervilia or round shield orchid, is a small terrestrial orchid found in South and Southeast Asia...
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Fitz James O'Brien (category People of New York (state) in the American Civil War)
Dew-Drop, and the Rose" (The Parlour Magazine, May 1851): A poetic tale that revolves around a Dew-Drop, which trembles on the leaf of a Rose, sparkling...
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effects of carbon dioxide enrichment and nitrogen supply on the growth of white spruce and trembling aspen were investigated by Brown and Higginbotham (1986)...
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Yannick Tremblay (category St. John's Maple Leafs players)
1975) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Atlanta Thrashers...
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Kishimoto's manga series of the same name. The series centers on the adventures of Naruto Uzumaki, a young ninja of the Hidden Leaf Village, searching for...
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is being buried alive in the foundations of the construction, she curses the bridge to flutter like a leaf, and those who pass it to fall like leaves also...
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bushrangers searched the store. As others passed by they were detained as well. It was reported that Daley was "very nervous and trembled like a leaf"; noticing...
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Dichapetalum cymosum (redirect from Poison leaf)
poison leaf, is a small prostrate shrub occurring in northern parts of Southern Africa in the family Dichapetalaceae. It is notable as a common cause of lethal...
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Theobromine (category Chemicals without a PubChem CID)
normally would consume in a typical diet including chocolate. At doses of 0.8–1.5 g/day (50–100 g cocoa), sweating, trembling and severe headaches were...
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Sprinkle Steam Powered Giraffe The Strawbs Kazuki Tomokawa Trees Trembling Bells Los Tres The Twilight Hours Two Gallants The Waifs Wagakki Band Derek Webb...
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corners, and there was a flashing of light in mine eyes. And I fell to the ground trembling. Then some one lifted me up from the place where I had fallen...
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Patrick Daley (category Year of death missing)
was reported that Daley was "very nervous and trembled like a leaf"; noticing his unease several of the captives pressed forward at which point Hall intervened...
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rapidly tremble their forelimbs, displaying the patterned interior faces to each other and waving them in slow arcs. This is believed to be a way of preventing...
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Clay Township, Michigan (redirect from Maple Leaf, Michigan)
post office uses the 48028 ZIP Code. Maple Leaf is an unincorporated community located on Harsens Island just southwest of the community of Sans Souci at...
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some broadleaves, e.g. trembling aspen and poplars. Coniferous hosts are affected in late spring through early August, and trembling aspens and poplars from...
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