Then came sudden alarms, hurrying to and fro; trepidations of innumerable fugitives; darkness and light; tempest and human faces.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers
Once he had taken a definite scent his early trepidations vanished.
"Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories"
Rex Beach
Dodd has opposed to Fox three curious folios, which he calls "The Church History of England," exhibiting a most abundant martyrology of the catholics, inflicted by the hands of the protestants; who in the succeeding reign of Elizabeth, after long trepidations and balancings, were confirmed into power.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)"
Isaac Disraeli