quivering

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• For some of the men of America’s founding generation, the world of ancient Greece and Rome was a ready quiver, a source of stories and vocabularies that were of use in the present.

• The soft cry from her quivering lips meets the rhythmic beat of our rattles: the battle cry of her living nightmare.

• Ten feet away, Sher scrunched into a quivering ball and began to cry.

• The emphasis was his: a high quivering shout, a forefinger stabbing upward.

• I came home quivering with excitement about my new friends, and about art, which I suddenly thought of as "Art."

• The woman who took no nonsense from a cabinet of quivering, jelly-kneed men, some of whom loved her, some of whom loathed her.

• Her white face looked ethereal in the moonlight, and her bloodless lips were quivering with returning life.

• At the word of command, the dog crouched down, his whole body quivering with excitement.

• The eyebrows were low and thick, the upper lip was sensitive, quivering sometimes as she talked, but the lower was firm and full.

• The clear and radiant sky was drowned in a quivering radiance of gold, that was like a thing alive and sensitively palpitating.

• "You are very good," she said, her voice quivering with feeling and real gratitude, and as he was departing she called after him.