blithe vs knee-trembling

blithe

adj
  • Cheerful, happy. 

  • Casually careless or indifferent; showing a lack of concern. 

knee-trembling

adj
  • Thrilled. 

  • Very frightening. 

  • Involving a knee-trembler. 

  • Overwhelmed. 

  • Causing a feeling of rapture. 

  • Terrified. 

  • Impressive. 

How often have the words blithe and knee-trembling occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )