How To Use Quiver In A Sentence
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I even dragged my acrophobic mother up mountains in the Auvergne, only to leave her quivering halfway up while I persevered alone to the top.
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The stress she had been under at work reduced her to a nervous/quivering wreck.
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He stood there for hours that night and stared into something he knew would make him a meaningless cipher in its light, make him ambiguous, coagulant dust in relationship to the size of a thing he could never comprehend, only quiver to imagine.
Southern Cross
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She said, louder this time, and with a quiver in her voice.
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I told him the unvarnished truth except for the part about you quivering stark naked with cold in the shower compartment.
CORMORANT
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It is not just the animals that are quivering in the waiting room - the owners are quaking at the thought of facing the vet's bill!
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Cooper arrived, quivering with rage.
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It's important to understand the Duggars' beliefs: The Duggars follow a conservative Christian belief system known as Quiverfull, which eschews all birth control in favor of "trusting the Lord with… family planning," says Vyckie Garrison at RH Reality Check.
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Slowly the edge parted and flattened out, broadwise, displaying the marbled brilliance of the butterfly's inner wings, illumining the pale chastity of the sleeping figure as if with a quivering and evanescent jewel.
Success A Novel
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Now, she would gladly exchange unmitigated boredom for the quivering nerves that alerted her to every shadow.
PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
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Her chin began a spasmodic quivering and the tears sprang into her eyes.
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Some of the images here caused even this reviewer to quiver a jaded eyebrow.
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There were stars in the night besides those known to astronomers: the stellular fireflies gemmed the black shadows with a fluctuating brilliancy; they circled in and out of the porch, and touched the leaves above Clarsie's head with quivering points of light.
In the Tennessee mountains,
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Ariana looked around and saw a tunic, a coat, a bow and a quiver of arrows.
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He twisted and groped one-handed behind the cantle of his saddle for his hunting-bow and quiver, found them and fumbled them loose.
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The larl stroked my cheek with his great, smooth paw, the ivory claws hooded but quivering slightly, as if about to awake.
Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories
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As the last words came hoarsely forth on to the night air, _clang, clang, clang_, burst out the tocsin of the alarm bell, silencing the music in the ballroom and sending an electric thrill through every listener within the precincts of the castle; but ere the great bell had sent forth a score of vibrating notes which came quivering through the darkness and echoing from every wall, the clattering of hoofs began in obedience to the whispered commands of his Majesty of France:
The King's Esquires The Jewel of France
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I also quiver in fear if anyone tries to touch my knees, or accidentally bumps into them.
The Sun
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Walking slowly forwards, he arches his dark forelegs over his head, then suddenly thumps them down, all the time his dark palps quivering under his face.
Country diary: Orwell, Cambridgeshire
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He loosed his sword straightway, and laid down his quiver.
The Fall of the Niebelungs
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His sword was sheathed, and his arrows still in their quiver.
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The earth shook and quivered underfoot.
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Even while electrifying the cosmopolite yuppies with hard rock, heavy metal and thrash metal, he has pop and slow rock numbers in plenty in his quiver.
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I felt a quiver of panic.
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Weapons were lowered, bows unbent, and arrows put back in their quivers.
THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN
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OK, so I'm a quivering bundle of irrational neuroses, but that's not the point.
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Lying at their feet were two new swords and a crossbow complete with a full quiver of arrows.
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Down went the sun and down, not diving steeply, but passing northward as it sank, and then suddenly daylight and the expansive warmth of daylight had gone altogether, and the index of the statoscope quivered over to
The War in the Air
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He saw his arrow hit its mark and calmly unstrung his bow before replacing it in his quiver.
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When I finally managed to scramble down, my legs were all aquiver, and my palms were studded with splinters.
The Dark Side of Innocence
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So saying, the otter slipped several quivering slabs of coelenterate between two pieces of breadfruit and commenced chewing noisily.
The Time of the Transference
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The green hills are a-quiver with babblers, bushchats, bulbuls, barbets, crow pheasants, and the laughing thrush of the Palni hills.
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So Gunther and Hagen laid aside all their arms, and put off their heavy clothing; but Siegfried took up his bow and quiver, and his heavy shield, and his beamlike spear.
The Story of Siegfried
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He snorted indignantly, and walked away across the tram rails, his hump quivering with rage.
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He quivered all over with rage.
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My body shook with the ground, my insides quivering, my ears splitting.
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She picked up her hunter's bow and the quiver of poison tipped arrows, and slung them around her shoulder.
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I silently cursed myself for the quiver in my voice.
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Long-hafted, slender, bone-barbed throwing-spears lay along the gunwale of the canoe, while a quiverful of arrows hung on each man's back.
Chapter 22
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Then the Greeks they groaned and quivered, And they knelt, and moaned, and shivered, As the plunging waters met them, And splashed and overset them; And they call in their emergence Upon countless saints and virgins; And their marrowbones are bended, And they think the world is ended.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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“I am a vixen, a female fox,” she had replied with a quiver of her nostrils, and Claudia had immediately recognized that a vixen was a very grand and glorious thing to be.
The Night Of the Solstice
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I did put out a quiver-tip, which rocked back and forth like a blade of grass bowing and stooping before the wind.
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In the presence of the two delegations the mediating Governor had taken an arrow and shown them with what ease it could be broken; then how impossible he found it to break a quiverful of arrows, thus demonstrating the strength in union.
The Frontiersmen
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'I wouldn't have given it him, but it is _rude_ -- it is _bad manners_, not even to ask!' the supposed victress was saying to herself, with quivering lips, her eyes following not the Trinity freshman, who was their latest captive, but an older man's well-knit figure, and a head on which the fair hair was already growing scantily, receding a little from the fine intellectual brows.
Robert Elsmere
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There was tenderness and pity in the tone of his voice as he said the name Bessie, and the sick girl looked at him curiously, as if struggling to recall something in the far past; then a smile broke over her face and the lip quivered a little as she replied:
Bessie's Fortune A Novel
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He was aquiver with the idea that he had glimpsed an animating force—“the secret of life.”
SuperCooperators
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But what if Interstate 57 looks decidedly Roman or Subcontinental — or imagine a hysterical combination of a Hindu cremation ritual, a New Orleans jazz funeral march, Jim Crace's quivering, and a High Baroque Requiem mass plus the nonstop visual, aromatic and aural assault from this thanatological mixture.
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At the microscopic level of nature, everything is vibrant - sap flowing, leaves and blades of grass quivering in the wind - but the eye can hardly see them.
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Symphony Hall is still quivering.
Times, Sunday Times
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The jelly should quiver and the butter should be bright and smooth.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were also blow-pipes hung up, and quivers and bags made of the bromelia, very elaborately worked.
On the Banks of the Amazon
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The candle sets their billowing clothes aquiver, and is about to singe and set the piper's sleeve on fire.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The smoky melody to the ensuing Ruins makes Jack Wyllie's sax more like a stringed instrument crossed with a trumpet, its quivering vibrato spooky but turning more guttural and free-jazzy as the backbeat pushes on.
Portico Quartet: Portico Quartet – review
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He felt wind in his face, sharp and cold; the chemosensor antennae flanking his mouth quivered as they drank organic odors blown off the plains.
Three Worlds to Conquer
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The leaves shook and quivered.
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It tasted like eating a hunk of quivering meat jelly.
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This old faubourg, peopled like an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult.
Les Miserables
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She touched her lips with shaky fingers, lips quivering as the tears ran past them.
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All carried longbows and a quiver full of arrows behind their backs.
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She was quivering with rage.
Times, Sunday Times
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And not that I have actually said goodbye yet either: it is more a case of the staff distracting my now quiet and quivery-lipped boy while I sneak out the door and slope off down the corridor.
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The next morning, he returned to his usual bowyer to refill his quiver.
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Giojoso fell to trembling; behind him, Rinolfo, the cause of all this garboil, stared with round big eyes; whilst my mother, all a-quiver, clutched at her bosom and looked at me fearfully, but spoke no word.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
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I distinctly recall the quivering of the full glasses of jelly on tapering disks that formed attractive table ornaments.
A Backward Glance at Eighty
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The old carlin stretched out on the floor with her two feet and two hands quivering.
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If there are occasionally a few transitional paragraphs between the coupling of her tight, wet, hot... self, and his hard, needy, throbbing...self and the second, even more quiverful coupling of said genitals, I find that my sisters are simply flipping pages straight to the good stuff, as it were.
A General Indictment of the Romance "Genre"
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The beadlike eyes turned, glittering, on all sides; the thin, wicked lips quivered with bad passions; the tiny hands sheathed and unsheathed the little swords and daggers.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
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This will give the adrenalin a chance to be used up rather than causing the body to shake and the voice to quiver.
Christianity Today
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Meditation for a leap into the unknown At great turning points, life quivers precariously on the tightrope of obedience.
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His lips quivered as he spoke and tears made his eyes misty as he looked up with utter adoration at the tall first mate.
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‘Yes it is,’ she replied, her lower lip aquiver.
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A quiver of excitement ran down my spine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her lip quivered and then she started to cry.
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Then there is the voice: a steely vibrato quivering with controlled emotion and perhaps something else.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her quivering lips remained parted as she ceased speaking.
Daniel Deronda
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His lip began to quiver.
Times, Sunday Times
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Genghis Khan, the king on the horse has left startling quiver memory at the Eurasia with the iron heel like the whirlwind.
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The hallmark of those novelists who have tried to write about the attacks is a sort of austere plangency — or a quivering bathos — that has been in evidence almost from the moment the planes hit.
Racing Against Reality
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The creature roared in agony, thrashing about and spewing gouts of blood, until it lay quivering in a pool of its own gore.
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Grabbing up my quiver and Caddo bow, I carefully followed in his footsteps as we picked our way across his camp and then down the trail that led to the creek.
Fire The Sky
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The memory of that day made him quiver with anger.
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Often have a fever after rectum cancer art, what symptom is quivering?
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He went out and returned, wan of face, changed in countenance and with his side-muscles a-quivering; so I asked him, ‘What aileth thee?’
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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They may also have occasionally made use of the javelin, which is sometimes seen among the arrows of a quiver.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
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The lights went out for her, her body quivered the stretcher is not yet here; I struggled looking for a way to go to hear her heart with my hands not able to help me
Amor y romanticismo 7
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He felt a quiver of excitement run through him.
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She held a dull black automatic handgun, aiming it at the tall man with quivering hands.
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The female continued to give the high-pitched call and quiver her wings for another 20 seconds.
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Now I need a wetsuit and a surfboard… bummer I didn't bring over at least one board from my quiver in NZ with me.
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My biramous appendages are quivering, Mr. President.
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The theatre was all a-quiver, signori miei! though I too did not fall short, I too after him.
The Torrents of Spring
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At last, on a morning when the dame had bidden her to nought of work, Birdalone took her bow in her hand and cast her quiver on her back, and went her ways into the wood, and forgat not the tress of
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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The man was trying to control the quivering of his bluish lips.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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Annie, and John Fry took a pick to keep him safe; but she curbed to and fro with her strong forearms rising like springs ingathered, waiting and quivering grievously, and beginning to sweat about it.
Lorna Doone
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We'd pulled the car up on the hills east of Rosedale and three yards the other side of the glass a cold wind quivered a lapwing's crest.
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The thunderbird swooped low; even the bears in the nearby forest quaked at the sound, and the leaves on the aspens began to quiver, and they have not stopped to this day.
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She attempted two or three times to speak, but not a word escaped from her quivering lips; and the tears gushing from her eyes followed each other in quick succession down her cheeks; and, finally, her pent-up feelings found expression in short, convulsive sobs.
From Wealth to Poverty
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He waited a moment or two as if willing to give the old woman time to speak: then, when he saw that she kept her thin, quivering lips resolutely glued together he called his corporal to him.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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The violins thirds quiveringly descend from the climax to a low F and the final quatrain returns to narration, over the fiddle's sustained bitonal notes.
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The flame quivered a little more then went out.
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Forsooth ye wot that not unseldom do women use the custom of going arrayed like men, when they would journey with hidden head; and ye may happen upon such gear as hath been made for such a woman rather than any man; but thou shalt get me also a short bow and a quiver of arrows, for verily these be my proper weapons that I can deal with deftly.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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Amy's voice filled the room, a slight, underlying quiver in her tone, as if she didn't want to hear more.
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A small current whirled around us, the giant fan palms nearby quivered in the almost imperceptible breeze and tropical birds whooped, cackled and whistled among the trees.
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Like a gong the sound lingered, quivering to a long stop.
A Time of War
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It looks unhappily as if the high-minded director and her main character are dipping a quivering toe in the waters of non-PC sexuality.
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Her rich and lustrous dark hair was plaited into two long braids over her shoulders, intertwined with cords of gold thread, and lay upon the breast of her purple bliaut stirring and quivering to her long, relaxed breathing as though it had a life of its own.
A River So Long
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Her voice is quivering again.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is an indescribably fast and furious combination of the slide, slop, funky chicken, mashed potato, camel walk, shimmy, applejack and quiver.
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The wind rushed through the holes in the booth, prickling my skin like wisps of memories flooding my quivering brain.
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It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess -- vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end.
The Moon Pool
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Take an extraordinary artistic heritage, the luxury of precious metals and priceless gems and an environment that can make even the most jaded shopper quiver with excitement.
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Jane couldn't help the quiver in her voice.
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The archer stood and pulled an arrow from her quiver, the spearwoman nimbly leaped from the box down onto the field, and one of the ladies got a look of concentration on her face that made him certain she was channeling.
Trial of Seven
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Atrial fibrillation occurs when the heart's upper chambers (called atria) quiver, instead of beating properly, and this disruption may allow blood to pool or clot, raising the risk of stroke.
EurekAlert! - Breaking News
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Though there are no exact figures for the size of the movement, the number of families that identify as Quiverfull is likely in the thousands to low tens of thousands.
The Bible says that God is the only opener and closer of the womb.
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The silence was broken occasionally by a muffled gasp or a quivering sigh that was more like the hiss of air brakes.
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Nevertheless, she outraged not, though her eyes were frightening Annie, and John Fry took a pick to keep him safe; but she curbed to and fro with her strong forearms rising like springs ingathered, waiting and quivering grievously, and beginning to sweat about it.
The Ontario Readers Third Book
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So rather than flash fry the whole slab, Uenosan sliced the steak into cubes and flipped them from face to face, leaving the centre of each red, raw and quivering.
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As I walked past a pudgy child who looked to be three and a half, shoeless in a tie-dyed shirt and playing with a squirt gun, I heard a horse neigh and watched a couple of proud looking Rhode Island Red hens scamper across the yard with their combs quivering.
CHASING the WHITE DOG
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You'll never stow yourself away on board my brig again, will you?" asked our flagellator of each of us alternately, with an alternate lash across our backs to give emphasis to his question, making us jump up from the deck and quiver all over, as we tried in vain to wriggle out of the lashings with which we were tied.
On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story
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His jaw quivered and dropped, while the rest of his body fell slack.
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She realized that her every nerve was quivering from the strain, and she thought it impossible ever to regain her youth.
Jenny: A Novel
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My lips quivered, inches away from my pint-sized patient's, his hot, bourbon soaked breath washing over my face.
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A radiance now came pouring through the eastern opening down the gorge or cwm itself, and soon the light vapours floating about the pool were turned to sailing gauzes, all quivering with different dyes, as though a rainbow had become torn from the sky and woven into gossamer hangings and set adrift.
Aylwin
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She was quivering with rage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Right at this moment wind is storming, windows are rattling, tree branches are creaking, and leaves are quivering.
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It is very easy to see how a few minutes with her can reduce a politician to a quivering wreck.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her quivering lips remained parted as she ceased speaking.
Daniel Deronda
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Her quivering lips remained parted as she ceased speaking.
Daniel Deronda
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Excitement rose in them, hardening muscles and quivering their sleek flanks in anticipation of the hunt.
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In the past few years, flying has become such an ordeal that take-off and landing now reduce me to a quivering, sweaty-palmed wreck.
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The granting of the charter itself featured prominently with artefacts from medieval life, including a quiver of arrows and the Earl of Derby's execution is marked with a replica scaffold and display featuring lilies.
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He usually hit the chest, and our teeth bared as the hilt of the bayonet quivered in the dummy.
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It is very easy to see how a few minutes with her can reduce a politician to a quivering wreck.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is brought to the fore by that stupid and ignorant piece in The Sunday Telegraph where correspondent Sean Rayment is quivering with excitement over the emergence in theatre of something entirely new to him, "the armour-piercing 'explosively formed projectile' or EFP, also known as a shaped charge.
Tip of the iceberg
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She unstrung it and put the bowstring in a pouch at her belt, and found a quiver and arrows with black fletching.
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An internal hinge, spring loaded with a rubber band, made the wings quiver in the wind, giving the illusion of a live brant.
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NPR's "Morning Edition" on Wednesday reported on a growing conservative Christian movement called Quiverfull, in which marrie ...
ProLifeBlogs
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Around the archer's waist and legs were 15 arrowheads, suggesting that a quiver of hafted arrows had been scattered over his lower body and legs, but the bow had long since rotted away.
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Denis Behan was introduced and bustled his way through the game, making ribbons of Clive Delaney and reducing Derry's defence to a quivering wreck.
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The tradition to which I have been always accustomed is, that the aspen was the tree of which the cross was formed, and that its tremulous and quivering motion proceeded from its consciousness of the awful use to which it had once been put.
Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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The disconnect between his robust frame and sickly music mirrors the tension in the songs themselves, between quivering ephemera and hulking clangor.
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Ah, it is little short of a sin to encage a wild bird, beating its heart against the bars of its narrow cage, when the sun calls it to mount up with quivering ecstasy to the gates of day; but what a sin to bind the preacher of righteousness, and imprison him in sunless vaults -- what an agony!
John the Baptist
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Swift as thought the veteran archer raised his arblast to his shoulder, the whizzing bolt fled from the ringing string, and the next moment crashed quivering into the corselet of Plantagenet.
Burlesques
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Her eyes were closed, and she was quivering her lips like an opera singer, though it wasn't affecting her singing at all.
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Her quiver of arrows had an oilskin cover to keep the arrows in and the snow and damp out.
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Joshua could make out that while some archers carried one quiver of arrows, many carried up to three.
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And Elric drew a racking breath while the rune - sword whined in his hand and quivered and its radiance dimmed a little.
The Vanishing Tower
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At over 350 quid the boss is likely to quiver his bottom lip but my mind is made up, I want one.
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The disconnect between his robust frame and sickly music mirrors the tension in the songs themselves, between quivering ephemera and hulking clangor.
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The beautiful glow in the west died out, where the sun had been ripening his harvest-field of sheafy gold and awny cloud; and the pulse of quivering dusk beat slowly, so that a man might seem to count it, or rather a child, who sees such things, which later men lose sight of.
Springhaven
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a glowing arch, quivering with an intensity of color, such as fascinates the eye of the eagle to the noonday sun.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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Ah! Yuagh!" called the sachem, and two young men stepped forward, toe on the line, glanced each at a framed picture, drew up an arm, and, "Whut-t-t t-e-e-p," whined two knives that flittered through the light and struck quivering, one with its cool kiss on McElroy's cheek, the other just in the edge of the slab at De Courtenay's shoulder.
The Maid of the Whispering Hills
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His sensuous mouth is constrained, his carmine lips almost quiver.
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It was Nietzsche who had made current the dream of a new music, a music that should be fiercely and beautifully animal, full of laughter, of the dry good light of the intellect, of "salt and fire and the great, compelling logic, of the light feet of the south, the dance of the stars, the quivering dayshine of the Mediterranean.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
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At the time of his death, Otzi was carrying an unfinished longbow, a quiver of unfinished arrows and a backpack.
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It is an indescribably fast and furious combination of the slide, slop, funky chicken, mashed potato, camel walk, shimmy, applejack and quiver.
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Night after night Martha Josselyn had sat there with the waltz-music in her ears, and her little feet, that had had one merry winter's training before the war, and many a home practice since with the younger ones, quivering to the time beneath her robes, and seen other girls chosen out and led away, -- young matrons, and little short-petticoated children even, taken to "excursionize" between the figures, -- while nobody thought of her.
A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life.
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Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality.
Camille Paglia, still a big Obama supporter, loves Sarah and Todd as "powerful new symbols of a revived contemporary feminism."
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They had scarcely hidden themselves, and removed all signs of their presence to Jack's satisfaction, when the storm which had been threatening for so long a time burst with terrific fury, the air being continuously a-glimmer with the flickering and quivering of lightning flashes, while the very ground beneath their feet seemed to quake with the deafening, soul-shaking crash of the thunder; and the rain, breaking loose at last, descended in such cataractal volumes that, even partially sheltered as most of them were by the dense foliage of the scrub amid which they cowered, every soul of them was wet to the skin in less than
The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection
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Sure it would be great if we all rode a quiver of all kinds of boards and had a magazine focussing on the whole of surfing and not individual parts, but the chances is slim.
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Now, in a healthy exercise of democracy and the idea bazaar, the tower of economic doctrine is quivering.
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Fear like quivering rain after a lightening bolt periled the air.
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Although fortepianos have higher decay rates than their 20th Century cousins, Bilson manipulates that decay with such skill you can feel the tail of silence quiver.
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This will give the adrenalin a chance to be used up rather than causing the body to shake and the voice to quiver.
Christianity Today
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The only indication was the slight quiver of his upper lip as his eyes bore into James.
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Her voice is quivering again.
Times, Sunday Times
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There stands on the bank and there lies in the flood a tree of beaten gold, gently moving against the sky, gently quivering in the water, flinging largess of its yellow money into the vistaed gold of its reflection.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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My body quivered, my hands trembled, and my eyes began to fill with tears.
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Her voice quivered as she spoke.
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A seaman at my elbow screamed and stood up, tearing at a sumpitan dart in his arm; as I dived for the cover of the rail another stood quivering in a cable a foot from my face; Brooke leaned over, grinning, snapped it off, tossed it away, and then did an unbelievable thing.
Flashman's Lady
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Now, in a healthy exercise of democracy and the idea bazaar, the tower of economic doctrine is quivering.
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Suddenly the horse swerved to one side, in affright as the electric fluid darted in a quivering, yellow line from the black clouds, lighting up the landscape, and showing the anxious rider that he was near the turnpike road which led to the main street.
Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest
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Are pupils and parents really so terrible they can reduce grown-up professionals to quivering wrecks?
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For multisensory stimulation, hundreds of architectural jellies quivered in a synchronised jelly dance to a soundscape of wobbling jelly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lachesis" quivered as the port turrets belched flame.
A Question of Courage
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The fourth, and perhaps the most important arrow in OSPE's quiver is direct intervention.
Public Servants Protecting Your Money
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He quivered all over with rage.
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In this series, vases float atop color fields, but here the vase is partly obliterated, as it is enveloped in smokelike, quivering strokes of black.
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The mimic dips on his side and quivers just as the female does when she discharges her eggs.
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His voice quivered with emotion, he sniffed and wiped his eyes and took some time to recover.
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Johnson was valuable to Boswell because they were so unalike; Boswell submissive, Johnson domineering, Boswell a quivering jelly of sensibility, Johnson a solid mass of sense.
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A strange beautiful excitement seemed to stream from the house in quivering ripples.
Bliss, and Other Stories
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Melstead sat on the edge of his armchair, the remainder of his whisky quivering like a ruffled puddle in the tumbler.
THE LAST RAVEN
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As she talks, her voice is quivering with outrage and indignation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The archer stood and pulled an arrow from her quiver, the spearwoman nimbly leaped from the box down onto the field, and one of the ladies got a look of concentration on her face that made him certain she was channeling.
Trial of Seven
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In this awful moment of suspense, which seemingly but preceded the disuniting of soul and body, each of the young men turned a breathless look of horror upon the old hunter, such as landsmen in a terrible gale at sea would turn upon the commander of the vessel; but, save an almost imperceptible quiver of the lips, not a muscle of the now stern countenance of Boone changed.
Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life
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He was a promising looking fellow, and I fully believed the answer that he made to the again bereaved mother, when, with quivering lips, she said: "Be good to my girl.
The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses
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With a quiverful of flutes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her voice (giddy or quivering), her gestures (ebullient or devastated), her posture (vertical, expansive as in "I Love New York!" or slumped like an urban pieta) describe the volcanic feelings that develop and finally erupt in her world-weary soul.
James Scarborough: Stop Kiss, The Garage Theatre
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On the wall adjacent to the targets, hung unstrung bows of every kind - longbows, short bows, recurves and compounds, even a crossbow - and beside them hung quivers full of arrows.
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She was met with the tip of a black sword quivering centimeters away from her nose.
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And at the command of Yudhishthira, the strong-armed Arjuna, taking up the Gandiva as also his inexhaustible quivers, and accoutred in mail and gauntlets and finger-protectors made of the skin of the guana, and having poured oblations into the fire and made the Brahmanas to utter benedictions after gifts, set out (from Kamyaka) with the objects of beholding Indra.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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I felt a quiver of excitement run through me.
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She reached out to him, her whole body quivering, and touched his hand.
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Her mouth quivered slightly as she turned away.
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The sniffling of grown men is an entr'acte, the buzz of voices as the audience re-enters the theatre for another half of the show and still the children have linked hands, fingers & fingers to wrists & wrists, and they have laid the quivering flowers upon the grave. prev & next
Unheimlich Diary Entry
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Immaculata, 19 years old and high-strung, appears at my bedroom door, hands on hips and nostrils flaring, every atom of her quivering with melodrama.
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My subconscious absences countermarch and unexpectedly just escalators a thigh, the ground of foot suddenly trembled to quiver.
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Brawn made you shudder at the sight of quivering greasy aspic.
FAIRYLAND
