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Quivering   /kwˈɪvərɪŋ/   Listen
Quivering

noun
1.
A shaky motion.  Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, shakiness, shaking, trembling, vibration.
2.
The act of vibrating.  Synonyms: quiver, vibration.



Quiver

verb
(past & past part. quivered; pres. part. quivering)
1.
Shake with fast, tremulous movements.  Synonyms: palpitate, quake.
2.
Move back and forth very rapidly.  Synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, waver.
3.
Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion.  Synonyms: beat, pulsate.






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"Quivering" Quotes from Famous Books



... the news home he could hardly get up the front steps with it. When he announced it at the table, and tried to be careless, his hand trembled till the saucerful of coffee at his quivering lips splashed over on the ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

... salutatory in forlorn rhyme to end off with," laughed Norman, "and read it, all arrayed in white, in a trembling voice, and everybody applauded, and even old Judge Seymour admired it, while you were reading, with your pink cheeks and trembling hands and quivering voice." ...
— Mae Madden • Mary Murdoch Mason

... himself, ordered her crew to row towards the bathing-ground, and there to rest upon their oars. All happened as had been arranged. His lovely bride came forth, the mayor glided in behind her, she became confused, and had floated out of her depth, when, with one skilful touch of the rudder and one quivering stroke from the boat's crew, her adoring Boldheart held her in his strong arms. There her shrieks of terror were ...
— Holiday Romance • Charles Dickens

... stream of water, fringed with bushes and small trees. On the near side of this fringe of trees and bushes and only a short distance from where our two young friends sat on the backs of their horses, crouched a huge grizzly bear over the body of a horse that was still quivering in the death agony. ...
— The Cave of Gold - A Tale of California in '49 • Everett McNeil

... say, when girlhood is trembling, quivering on the portal of womanhood, a world of mysteries. But it is not half so dramatic as twenty-five, when a woman, if she be rightly healthy in mind and body, comes into woman's estate, feeling, desiring, ...
— The Black Colonel • James Milne


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