How To Use Quaver In A Sentence
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`You promised then you would immortalize the heroes of that day," said Quaver.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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She also has a teeny-tiny musical quaver tattooed on her neck.
Times, Sunday Times
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His body quavered a little when he saw the teacher coming towards him.
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Her voice began to quaver and I thought she was going to cry.
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Tom is still performing, taking time each day to keep up with his dotted quavers and four beat notes.
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Her voice began to quaver and I thought she was going to cry.
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In the third movement, Haitink's lucid communication of the music's textural contrasts made it a joy to listen to, and the violins’ cheeky acciaccaturas tinkled wholeheartedly from their instruments; the finale was brisk, with almost maniacal handfuls of semiquavers, and the trumpets were on top form.
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Brian's eyes were red and swollen, and his voice had a quaver.
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A pity; with such spirited playing one longed to hear every scurrying semiquaver.
Times, Sunday Times
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The English term for eighth-notes gets it right with "quaver", since these and other notes can do exactly that when played with alternating intensity, and even, suggests Quantz, duration.
CounterPunch
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Flying on the wings of an ubiquitous electric slide guitar, a distinctive if quavering voice, and her acerbically accurate songwriting, the Ottawa songwriter has crafted what sounds suspiciously like a Canadian roots rock classic.
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‘I'm the king now,’ I explained, hoping no one else heard the quaver in my voice.
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On the words ‘No sense was stung’ the minim triads again banish the clumping quavers, though this time the triads are no simple concords, but a dominant seventh of E major followed by an F triad that is simultaneously major and minor.
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The employment of the bind is a necessity whenever a sound is required to be of a duration which cannot be expressed by any single note, as for example five or seven quavers.
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Jackson is a noted perfectionist who wants to get every hemidemisemiquaver right, and if the material is strong enough that true emotion gets through the handiwork, all the better.
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The jocular expression of an approaching dangerous social situation is often conveyed by people sounding out its ominous low-pitched glissando quavers.
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From this plateau _barrancos_, or ravine-valleys, said to number 103, radiate quaquaversally.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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Jane then began to sing in an offkey and quavery voice:
The Body Ricardo
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The tone was firm and sweet, and fiendish semiquaver flourishes attacked with unanimity and boldness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although the friendly Dominicans spoke courteously to one another while discussing the weather, their faces were strained and their voices quavered upon mention of the name Georges.
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Her voice quavers at the memories from inside but you get the sense she is far from beaten.
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Following the massive second song, Hecker calms thing down with some shorter minimal sketches, but they have the same seasick quaver as what came before.
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He has a quavering, affected English accent, which the actor perhaps imagines to be that of a cheeky cockney.
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At the end the boy's open-stringed fiddling turns into arpeggios of A major and minor, and disperses in semiquaver thirds, now floating up instead of down.
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Here a huge column of curiously contorted basalt has been connected by a solid high-arched causeway with the cliff, which is equally remarkable, showing a central boss of stone with lines radiating quaquaversally.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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Thomas' voice accepted the reference to his illness without a quaver, and he shrugged.
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She also has a teeny-tiny musical quaver tattooed on her neck.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finally, the third rhythm forms a contrastingly smooth arpeggio which sweeps upwards in pairs of quavers.
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And he could not help but contrast it with the weak pipings and shrill quaverings of factory girls, ill-nourished and untrained, and with the raucous shriekings from gin-cracked throats of the women of the seaport towns.
Chapter 8
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Andrew Shore's Don Alfonso, in spite of a quaver in his voice, was expert and satisfying.
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It does not matter, though, because even philosophers quaver in the face of death, Socrates notwithstanding.
This Dark And Mourning Earth | Her Bad Mother
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Her voice quavered and she fell silent.
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Even in his younger days, the inimitable strength and fortitude in his voice was mixed with the occasional moment of weakness, the odd quaver and show of vulnerability.
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Come here, girl!" she called amiably in a quavery old-woman voice.
Legacy
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Informed that they were a middle-aged forty, they doddered, trembling with ague and spoke their lines in quavering falsetto.
FAIRYLAND
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Today, the upbeats will become more downbeat as the trumpet tootles peter out and the sax puts a lid on the headlong rush of demisemiquavers for another year.
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More startling, his manic-depressive nature is expressed by sudden changes of tempo, juxtaposing passages in semiquavers with slow-moving minims and semibreves.
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The prevalence of the piccolo sonority, acciaccaturas, repeated accompanimental quavers, simple tonic-dominant bassline and the use of percussion all signify alla turca.
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His body quavered a little when he saw the teacher coming towards him.
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His voice noticeably quavered as he recalled one of the most important moments in his career.
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That jimjam-wearing weirdo, with the coat thrown on top, and the mussed hair, buying Nescafé and Quavers at the corner shop, could just be popping out from working from home, as, say, um, for instance, a newspaper journalist.
The camera does sometimes lie. Ask a female politician | Barbara Ellen
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To me, it feels quite tentative with quavering voice asking big questions needing even bigger answers.
The Sun
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`You promised then you would immortalize the heroes of that day," said Quaver.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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Lamontagne's voice is strong but with a quaver and a dry, rasping quality that hints at an inside breakability.
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And your little heart did throb a little, and sink for a day, when this playfellow was shipped off for life, as you thought, and you _did_ remember his funeral tears over his owl, and" -- a quaver of voice and betrayed earnestness revealed the jealous pang shooting across the heart of the speaker; but her own was too heavy and deeply anxious to prolong this desultory talk.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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I will give you my daughter Ermengarde in marriage, I will make you my heir, I will give you half my kingdom -- "His voice rose, quavering; and it died now, for he foreread the damnation of
Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship
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Yet it was not the wolf-cry, for long ago the malformation of a healing throat-wound had distorted the bell-like cry into a hideous scream like the shriek of a soul foredamned, which quavered loud and shrill upon the keen air and ended in a series of quick jerks, like stabs of horrible laughter.
The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
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To hear King - the real King - speak in that strange, quavering but powerful voice: ‘I had a dream’, you can hear and feel where the man got his traction.
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At least my voice wasn't quavering with every syllable.
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His voice softens and opens up, threading a tremulous quaver through its easy melody.
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We hear his dizzy, endless melodic chain of hemidemisemiquavers pouring from the chromatic button keyboard of three accordions.
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One recurrent motif I noted in the book of 1980 was the group of eight quavers or semiquavers beginning off the beat, a simple signature.
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His body quavered a little when he saw the teacher coming towards him.
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Here Braham quavered, and here Liston drolled his best -- here
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
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His voice quavering, the senator added, ‘I'm also sorry if anything I said in any way cast a negative light on our fine men and women in the military.’
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Despite himself, a little quaver was in his voice.
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“Zo, listen, I know this is weird, but I just feel like I have to ask—” Cara could hear her voice quaver.
Choker
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His body quavered a little when he saw the teacher coming towards him.
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He came out, bowed down with sorrow, to settle on a bench, his voice quavering with a barely audible Yiddish lament.
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On a black piano sits sheet music with crotchets, quavers and phrases in pencil.
Times, Sunday Times
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Interestingly, even though the stink from this particular city stretch is so powerful that strong men quaver, the authorities are apparently contemplating introducing boating in the Canal.
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She heard the quaver in her voice and steadied it.
Choker
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‘But in the photo I saw in the paper later, he was standing in the very front,’ she said, her voice quavering.
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Putting a little quaver in my voice, I looked to Megan and said, ‘What's she saying, sweetheart?’
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Her voice began to quaver and I thought she was going to cry.
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It would be good to set the mizzen-topgallant," I heard Captain West mutter in a weak, quavery voice.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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A sustained pedal then accompanies the manuels, who have a dotted quaver, semi - quaver rhythm.
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She was a bit taken aback to hear the slight quaver in her father's voice as he replied.
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Largo; not the hundredth part of the weight of a single quaver was spared us; stiff and ghastly, like a bronze pigtail, the battuta of this Andante was swung over our heads; even the feathers on the angel's wings were turned into corkscrew curls -- rigid, like those of the seven year's war.
On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,
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Leo's trademark vocals are in full force, traversing the usual valleys of gut-wrenching falsetto and perfunctory quavers in resplendent multi-tracked glory.
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The original sources maintain some distinction between the lengths of appoggiaturas: whether those notated here as acciaccaturas are in reality semiquavers is unclear (surely they must often be realized as such).
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But her voice never even quavered, and that made me think she might actually make a decent public defender.
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The homely sound, likewise, of a rustical hornpipe is more agreeable to my ears than the curious warbling and musical quavering of lutes, theorbos, viols, rebecs, and violins.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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By the 19th century, however, a case of music type might have contained more than 400 separate parts; three joined quavers, for example, might demand 16 pieces of type.
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He had that same erudite quaver that suggested madness or brilliance and probably both.
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‘I couldn't stop in time,’ he explained, voice quavering.
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Maybe there is something to be said for inhabiting a separate little musical world of adulation, ‘luvvies’ and cascading semiquavers!
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Nervous in the extreme, his voice quavered as he gave commands to his pupil, often so haltingly that he seemed nearly on the verge of choking.
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Her voice was low, near to a whisper so as to ensure that nobody would notice the quaver in her voice were they not looking for it.
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In Beethoven's music any note from the semiquaver to the minim is capable of functioning as the main beat, and such virtuosos as Liszt and Paganini simply played some of their own music as fast as possible.
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Furthermore, a comparison of the way in which crotchets and quavers are notated makes it likely that the same scribe copied both works.
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His Grozny, delicate as a doily, shows the ruins of the bombed Chechen capital dissolving in quavering sepia contours like an 18th-century capriccio.
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And McManus' voice, quavering, stretching and choking its way around the tunes, makes sure it always sounds very human.
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The lights dimmed and a man began a long, quavering chant.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dot indicators on each line of the staves give the position of each semi-quaver in a time signature of 4/4.
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Strings swirl, melodies are caressed by her velvety vocal quaver, and the songs are simple in their expression of the feel-good sentiment.
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I tried to make the question light, but I felt my voice quaver.
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The gentle breeze set the flames of the lamps quavering.
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As the soloist waits, pizzicato quavers hurry along a twisted version of the piano's cadenza theme in the bassoons , everything still piano.
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Monty spins to attention, his head raised with great offense, his voice quavering with emotion - ‘Why did you say that?’
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Q quailing culprit quaint peculiarities qualifying service quavering voice queer tolerance quenchless despair querulous disposition [querulous = habitually complaining] questionable data questioning gaze quibbling speech quick sensibility quiescent melancholy quiet cynicism quivering excitement quixotic impulse quizzical expression quondam foe [quondam = former]
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Per
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Furthermore, a comparison of the way in which crotchets and quavers are notated makes it likely that the same scribe copied both works.
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The famous opening of Beethoven's Fourth Concerto - like that of his Fifth Symphony a matter of repeated quavers - is an idea that derives from musical thought itself, and its working out during the course of the piece is the piece.
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said Quaver, shuddering at the thought of such desecration.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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The lights dimmed and a man began a long, quavering chant.
Times, Sunday Times
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`Now shall we all, together, reflect upon the infinitude of existence," Leo began with an earnest quaver in his voice.
SORT OF RICH
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I slightly regret this quavering furore, since it distracts attention from the praise which it seems that I "lavished" (Mr. Erlich sounds hard to please) on Miss Himmelfarb's brilliant book.
True Minds
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Her voice quavered and she fell silent.
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Endless varieties of notational patterns (up to hemidemisemiquavers) and ornaments can be created by combing the characters in the font
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And a quavering wail of terror rose up from the throats of the thousands of pigmies.
"Once in a Blue Moon" by Harl Vincent, part 4
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To me, it feels quite tentative with quavering voice asking big questions needing even bigger answers.
The Sun
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Though Bruce Springsteen's gruff bark is an uncomfortable fit with Davies's camp quaver, they recast Better Things as a Byrdsy ramble that's an improvement on the original's clumping new wave.
Ray Davies: See My Friends - review
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Her top notes quavered a little.
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The dot indicators on each line of the staves give the position of each semi-quaver in a time signature of 4/4.
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Oh, mastel," he quavered, "me thinkee me heal a sound ovel hele -- fol me too flightened to sleep -- and me come hele to see what the mattel.
A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
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He was breathy, his voice quavered, he stumbled over words, he was stilted and uncomfortable.
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My brother's voice was quavering on the other end of the line.
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‘This is the largest pristine wilderness in North America,’ Kennedy croaks in a froggy quaver.
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Within these prohibitive technical limitations, the performer is asked to make rapid scalic runs and, in one place, semiquaver leaps, and the piece ends with a double glissando.
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The children quavered out their little song.
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Each phrase, each note, each semiquaver rest must be locked into position before eternity.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was using his acting ability to sound confident and fearless, but I heard his voice quaver in spite of himself.
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`You promised then you would immortalize the heroes of that day," said Quaver.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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We may not all know how many semiquavers make a minim, but we know what kind of music helps us to relax after a hard day.
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His body quavered a little when he saw the teacher coming towards him.
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the old lady's quavering voice
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'It's not true,' she said, in a quavering voice.
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His lip, covered with short bristles, quavered slightly.
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Above the kitchen chimney stack, the sky quavers on a high inaudible note.
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First, the wolf's cry held a quaver that said he was getting on in years.
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There was this very specific attention to every hemidemisemiquaver and how quintuplets were going to inter-relate with this and how the texture of the cymbalom would work with the mandolin versus the harps and so on.
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On a black piano sits sheet music with crotchets, quavers and phrases in pencil.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Sir,’ his voice quavered as he spoke, ‘they always look hungry to me.’
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The band's go-go dancers can't compete - she's a commanding guitarist, in high heels or not, and sings with Bowie's Katherine Hepburn quaver.
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the man began quaveringly to question the soldier
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The repeating shape of the accompaniment in quavers is designed to recur only at the first beat of the seventh bar.
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It's a mark of the return of confidence that no one said this with a quaver in their voice or a God-Willing shrug.
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Hopkins, an amateur composer, often described his theory in terms of musical notation, speaking of rests, crotchets, and quavers.
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‘This is the largest pristine wilderness in North America,’ Kennedy croaks in a froggy quaver.
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The opening melodic phrase is repeated throughout the piece, decorated sometimes by acciaccaturas, trills, or flowing semiquavers.
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She quavered out her bitter experience.
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Beres Hammond brings a deep sense of hurt and resignation to ‘Just Like a Woman’ as his voice quavers and breaks at the bridge; it's a warm lament over plangent Hammond organ.
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Such a charivari as ensued, for just as my tugs at the alarm-bell began to take effect, the clock struck twelve, and the waits set up outside my window in quavering tones, with their teeth chattering from the cold, an old-fashioned lilt.
A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
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They've got to get a proposal together with, like, sheet music and all, and with the music constructed in GarageBand by yours truly, who barely knows a stave from a semi-quaver, getting that together is ... a challenge, as they say.
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His voice softens and opens up, threading a tremulous quaver through its easy melody.
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‘We're best friends,’ I say, a little quaver in my voice.
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“Cal,” Maggie said coming toward him, a quaver in her voice.
Three Stages of Amazement
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For, as all have seen, she was naturally of a very timorsome and quavering disposition.
The Dew of Their Youth
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Her voice is quavery and bird-like, soft, fragile, and attractive.
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It might have just been the connection, but he thought he heard her voice quavering.
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The oaf wouldn't know the difference between a crotchet, a quaver, and a bash in the chops with a bassoon.
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When I have something to say, I do not waver and quaver around it like this.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
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She speaks with cheerful firmness but I can hear the quaver in her voice.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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It's pretty unusual to find hemidemisemiquavers in pieces of music, because most of the time they're too short to be significant - just 1/64th of a semibreve.
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Tom is still performing, taking time each day to keep up with his dotted quavers and four beat notes.
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Finally, the third rhythm forms a contrastingly smooth arpeggio which sweeps upwards in pairs of quavers.
