Hoarse orders rang forward and aft, and the very air seemed aquiver with import.
When he saw that dark patch, his cool composure fell from him like a mantle and he bent forward eagerly, all his perceptions aquiver with sensibility.
Why does not the ether, when set aquiver with the vibration which gives us the sensation we call light, have produced in its substance subordinate quivers, setting out at right angles from the path of the original quiver?
Elizabeth asked, perfectly quiet on the outside, but aquiver with humiliation and dread because of the thing she was being compelled to do.
Nathan followed her aquiver with the slight that his common sense told him had been put upon her by those whom she had so faithfully and fully served.
The roaring bacchanalian glees with which the pack-men set the melancholy sheeted woods aquiver might well send the ghosts out of earshot, presuming them endowed with volition.
And listening, I heard the feathery tattoo of wings close by--the wings of Eros all aquiver like a soft moth trembling ere it flies!
The girl rose; her face was colorless; she was aquiver with indignation.
Every flower was gleaming white or crimson black, and the air was aquiver with the thridding of small crickets and nightingales singing unseen in the depths of the trees.
Her situation had been developing beyond anything she had ever dreamed of; she was aquiveras to what might happen next.
Maggie with excited touches tried to improve her setting of the table, aquiver with expectancy and suspense at the nearness of the meeting--every nerve of audition strained to catch the first footfall upon the stairs.
Inwardly, however, she was aquiver with excitement and suspense.
Bertram used to declare that the whole Strata was aquiver with fear when Cyril was composing, and I remember him as a perfect bear if anybody so much as whispered when he was in one of his moods.
Every stratum was aquiver with apprehension," he declared; "and there was never any telling when the next grand upheaval would rock the whole structure to its foundations.
Sleigh-bells fairly leaped out of the quiet, and Roger jumped and gulped, aquiver with excitement.
