How To Use Quivering 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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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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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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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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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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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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OK, so I'm a quivering bundle of irrational neuroses, but that's not the point.
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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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He snorted indignantly, and walked away across the tram rails, his hump quivering with rage.
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My body shook with the ground, my insides quivering, my ears splitting.
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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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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.
Archive 2006-02-01
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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 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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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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She was quivering with rage.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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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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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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She held a dull black automatic handgun, aiming it at the tall man with quivering hands.
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My biramous appendages are quivering, Mr. President.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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She was met with the tip of a black sword quivering centimeters away from her nose.
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She reached out to him, her whole body quivering, and touched his hand.
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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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Brawn made you shudder at the sight of quivering greasy aspic.
FAIRYLAND
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Her voice is quivering again.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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She stood quivering in anger and loathing fear, unable to bear his mockery.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Try to Explain was a quivering, ambient electronica piece that turned into an immense symphonic structure.
Times, Sunday Times
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He held his breath as he positioned himself meticulously in the tanbark, shoelaces of his sneakers quivering.
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Maybe the rest of the city is quivering in terror, cowering at home, hiding with unconquerable fear?
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Maybe the rest of the city is quivering in terror, cowering at home, hiding with unconquerable fear?
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He was shirtless, exceedingly pale, a quivering tendril of a man trying to dodge a patch of sun that persisted in dappling his face.
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Wide receiver Keith Smith seemed so angry about the turn of events that his lips were quivering as he spoke after the game, which he described as unlike any in which he has played.
Undefined
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The poor quivering lips went on.
Daniel Deronda
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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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It left me a quivering wreck.
The Sun
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Her chin was awash with saliva and blood; she inadvertently drooled a thick cord into the quivering maw.
MINUTES TO BURN
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They made a great contrast as they sat together in the woody shade, where the woodbine-scented breeze was fanning softly, and the quivering light fell scatteringly.
Left at Home or, The Heart's Resting Place
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I watch him through my telescope, his rictal bristles quivering around his beak, his tiny dark eye like a drop of ink, a white blaze dabbed in the middle of his black forehead like a pilgrim’s badge, a black back and tail, and a white panel on his folded wings.
A Year on the Wing
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‘Felicity,’ he said, trying to force an aspect of sternness in his quivering voice.
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His voice was quivering with rage.
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András Szántó 'A quivering quadrangle of vanilla crème, sandwiched between layers of mille-feuille and finished with a dusting of sugar.'
The Crème of the Krémes in Budapest
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But slower and slower grew her flight; strength at last was failing, for it had been too severely tried; her breath came quick and fast, in short, fitful gasps, and her heart beat heavily beneath her quivering breast.
Parables from Flowers
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He felt his lips quivering, and blinked through the mist that had blurred his vision.
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I know, 'cried Eugénie de Netteville at last, standing at bay before him, her hands locked before her, her white lips quivering, when her cup of shame was full, and her one impulse left was to strike the man who had humiliated her --' I know that you and your puritanical wife are miserable -- _miserable_.
Robert Elsmere
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This involuntary quivering of your eyelid muscle is known as myokymia, and usually subsides within three weeks.
The Sun
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Eyes flick up from a crouched, quivering body below.
Times, Sunday Times
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I still had all my indistinctive cuts, and the pulsating throb on my arm, beautiful quivering under the pressure of the gauze, wasn't helping much.
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They all fall to the ground and lie quivering like the tail of a hunted lizard.
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It left me a quivering wreck.
The Sun
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It left me a quivering wreck.
The Sun
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The stress she had been under at work reduced her to a nervous/quivering wreck.
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On-camera confessionals narrate already obvious conflicts with either eye-rolling sarcasm or lip-quivering sincerity.
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Tony brought them plates of cold lobster and quivering aspic, and the first tender asparagus tips from Chance.
THE WHITE DOVE
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She was looking at him with big, round, hopeful eyes, her lips quivering, and his mind was a total blank.
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I slitted my eyes open to look at Tirza, who was standing stiffly with her hands fisted at her sides, her face closed of expression though I could sense her quivering in some unnamed emotion.
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They all fall to the ground and lie quivering like the tail of a hunted lizard.
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I have been reduced to a quivering heap of tears after getting mushroom gunk under my fingernails when cooking Peter dinner.
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Nothing embodies this more fully than the krémes: a quivering quadrangle of vanilla crème, sandwiched between layers of crisp mille-feuille and finished with a dusting of confectioner's sugar.
The Crème of the Krémes in Budapest
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Certainly not ghastly Bartoli with her thin, quivering sound and facial contortions, and definitely not Gilfry with his tight baritone pushed beyond the bounds of vocal beauty for the sake of (near) audibility.
Ain't It a Pretty Night
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Quick as lightning, the Wondersmith had stridden a few paces, and grasped the poor cripple, who was yet quivering with the departing thunder of his passion.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
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As she talks, her voice is quivering with outrage and indignation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The melodies sometimes get chewed up and spat out, or equally are full of sparkling charm and quivering intent.
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As always, we defy you to watch without your lip quivering.
The Sun
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We sat with our breath quivering like sick men waiting to die.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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But oh no: he waited, staring dead ahead, his jowls quivering to the vibrations of the idling engine.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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Nichara made a grim expression and drew her cloak more tightly about herself and prodded at her cheeks with quivering fingers.
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By means of these assured yet quivering lines, she transposes the painterly flourishes of the original paintings into crisp, staccato markings.
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Quivering as at some "annunciation", she went slowly forward.
Sons and Lovers
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As always, we defy you to watch without your lip quivering.
The Sun
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“We have to call Trisha, Drew,” Luz said, her chin quivering with the effort to hold back her tears while he cried for both of them.
The Glory Game
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Every time I think about you, just you also reminds me, your heart will quivering slightly a little.
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‘You make me feel good about myself,’ he explains emphatically to his lip-quivering amour.
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Adriana's laughter is almost soundless, quivering and spasmodic, like choking.
FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
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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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`Nobody very exciting, just one of the weevil family," she called over, displaying the quivering dot on her hand.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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She disappeared into the night and left me a quivering wreck.
The Sun
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Not only this, but the singer accompanies the different cries with the corresponding gestures, quivering or threatening like the lustiest performer passionately enacting a song.
Wildwood
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It shook him to the core with a ghostly shaft of fear impaling his quivering heart.
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Eggs Benedict - poached eggs with quivering yolks, covered in yellow sauce - Eve's gorge rose.
DOLL'S EYES
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`Your driver is alive,' he said showing me his teeth, tongue and quivering uvula as if he was considering eating him.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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Quivering with rage she slammed the door shut.
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Griffith loosened the reins and the quivering horse beneath him sprung into a flat-out gallop, nearly unseating him as they rode towards the fallen figure.
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She disappeared into the night and left me a quivering wreck.
The Sun
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Like a gong the sound lingered, quivering to a long stop.
A Time of War
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And now he began to get a little hungry, and very thirsty; for he had run a long way, and the sun had risen high in heaven, and the rock was as hot as an oven, and the air danced reels over it, as it does over a limekiln, till everything round seemed quivering and melting in the glare.
The Water Babies
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Adriana's laughter is almost soundless, quivering and spasmodic, like choking.
FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
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Claude noticed that David looked at him as if he were very much pleased with him, looked, indeed, as if something pleasant had happened in this room; where, God knew, nothing had; where, when they turned round, a swarm of black flies was quivering with greed and delight over the smears Willy Katz body had left on the floor.
XVI. Book Five: “Bidding the Eagles of the West Fly On
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I used to love doing that, jumping feet first into quivering mountains of brown and red, kicking my way through the gutters where the leaves collected best.
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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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His hands were quivering, and his stomach felt as though it were churning and moving.
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Maybe you're still raring to go, still quivering to the soca beat, still feeling the Carnival energy.
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Crouching behind a thick stem, his sword quivering in his fingers, he saw the bushes part, and a tall figure stepped leisurely into the trail.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan
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In both films, there is the savage horror of brief, brutal bursts of carnage; the quivering fear of death; the grim reality of war.
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She arose with catlike ease and suddenness to her full height, her eyes flashing, her nostrils quivering like a deer's.
NEGORE, THE COWARD
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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
Robert Elsmere
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We were greeted on all sides, and escorted in triumph to the village; the men riding _jerid_ -- that is, firing from horseback at full speed, hanging over by one stirrup with the bridle in their mouths, quivering their long lances in the air, throwing and catching them again at full gallop, yelling and shouting their war-cries.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
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Sometimes firecrackers are ingeniously inserted, which go off when the banderilla is deftly fastened in the beast's quivering flesh.
Six Months in Mexico
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She was quivering with rage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Symphony Hall is still quivering.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘I think I just nuked the computer's hard drive,’ I said, quivering.
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Variable as the shade, by the light quivering aspen made"; but variable as the _light_, manifold in fair and serene division, that it may take the color of all that it falls upon, and exalt it.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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Cat went rigid, a new awareness of this quivering mountain of a woman in her soiled apron and heavy wooden clogs, her frizzy, hennaed hair pinned in a lopsided mess beneath a wrinkled cap.
Earl of Durkness
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Quivering or irregular contraction of heart muscle fibers, preventing the heart from contracting as a unit and pumping blood effectively.
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The Council of Ten referred to the doge as ίl vecchίo ίdίota— the old idiot—and they were so certain of his ineptitude that they never took a moment to look beyond the trembling hands and quivering chin which held steady enough when he dined alone.
The Book of Unholy Mischief
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Turning to the bewildered crowd in the rear, she explained with a vigor that set her bandanna "cornus" quivering: "Yassum, dese eyes done seen dat very man he talk about - de onliest man what could set us free.
War-time sketches : historical and otherwise,
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The pine needles were still quivering.
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He dips his head and gives me the look that says, how can you resist someone as quiveringly self-aware, as attuned to the mechanisms of his own irresistibility, as I, Russell Brand, am?
Russell Brand: This charming man
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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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His face became distorted; the alae of the nose worked convulsively; his lips moved quiveringly up and down; his eyelids were expanded into a wild and eager stare; the tongue was now stiff, now played convulsively within the mouth; and the muscles of the throat, larynx, and trachea were sympathetically affected.
Knotted Tongues
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`Of course, she has marvellous...' said Wilshere, and his search for a word set the air quivering, `... marvellous deportment.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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She looked crushed, her lips quivering pathetically.
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However, towards that fly a fishing-boat was already darting with the swiftness of a water beetle, and causing its two oars to show quiveringly red and grey, while from the marshier of the two banks there began hastily to put out a second boat which leapt in the steamer’s wash with the gaiety of a young calf.
Through Russia
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As usual, the food mountain expressed itself in quivering, groaning, and loud slurps.
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But the sound increased with the momentum, and soon the whole island was shaking and quivering with the shock of the grinding bergs.
AT THE RAINBOW'S END
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And this time Boerab had found a magnificent cock pheasant quivering beside the slingstone, and Urkut had sagaciously denied any miraculous powers while putting his slingstone away.
The Magic May Return
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Your opponent comes out, quivering with righteous indignation, spoiling for a fight.
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The people ceased from the quivering stone-pile they had builded, and looked on.
THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
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quivering leaves of a poplar tree
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Eyes flick up from a crouched, quivering body below.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ramsay is the browbeater on Fox's reality series "Hell's Kitchen," unleashing torrents of F-bombs on his fragile flock of quivering culinary contestants.
The Seattle Times
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This redstart was quivering its tail on the worn carpet of lichen that covered the top of the stone wall at Kennaby.
A Year on the Wing
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Then the expression melted into that of an eerie doll and he began the terrible quivering too.
The Burning Wire
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She disappeared into the night and left me a quivering wreck.
The Sun
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Her tone had a note of finality to it and intuitively Nell rose, hands quivering with anticipation as she reached for the shabby black book.
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I loved the way that the stage just transformed itself with quivering strands of material.
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And it was a relief when Jude swung the steel-hooked gaffing pole over the side, and hauled on board a solid, quivering muscle of a fish.
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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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Evandale; “he is tottering on the verge between time and eternity, a situation more appalling than the most hideous certainty; yet his is the only cheek unblenched, the only eye that is calm, the only heart that keeps its usual time, the only nerves that are not quivering.
Old Mortality
