He stretched his hand out and taking hers held it lightly till she quivered and drew away, bending again over her sewing.
The womanquivered again but she answered steadily: "No.
Bevis shot as the squirrel rushed up a tree, and his arrow struck the bark, quivered a moment, and stuck there.
The scales shone silver white, and reflected the sunshine into their eyes like polished metal as the fish quivered and leaped under the claw.
The spike went through his wing and nailed it to a thick root; the arrow quivered as it was stopped by the wood.
Wreathing her white arms about him, while his body quivered with disgust, she cooed and prayed and worshipped, and uttered a sharp cry of pain as, unable to endure the ordeal, he flung her rudely on the ground.
Hetty's lips quivered a little, but the pride of the cattle-barons shone in her eyes.
The reflection of the sun in the rapidly flowing Donets quivered and raced away in all directions, and its long rays played on the chasubles, on the banners and on the drops splashed up by the oars.
He looked anxiously at Solomon and at his visitors, and again the skin on his face quivered nervously.
She knelt on the floor, put her arms around the dog's neck, and the delighted brute quivered with the joy of her caress and the sound of her loved voice.
Belshazzar quivered in anxiety to offer the comfort he could not speak.
From that moment she trembled at her danger, and quivered under the remorse which terror brings.
It was deathly cold, and the features quivered as if convulsed under her touch.
Some instinct, long forgotten, quivered within me, telling me that we were no longer alone.
My ear quivered with the vibrations, and long after she was silent the last mellow note floated through my brain.
They quivered and lay still; and then, looking up at some slight sound in the doorway, we saw Desiree.
My nervesquivered in disgust, not far from terror.
Suddenly the body of the reptile quivered convulsively.
The tentacle quivered and throbbed violently, and suddenly flew apart like a released spring, and I fell to the ground.
The latter quivered for a moment under the impact, and then, with a loud snapping of branches and muffled tearing of roots, fell crashing to the crusted snow beneath, leaving a gaping wound in the earth.
And that isn't all," continued Miss Fitzpatrick, nerving herself for speech so that her curls quivered violently.
The hungry man gnawed one of his fingers as he looked at the other three, and his finger quivered with the craving that was on him.
As he talked his great thin face quivered and his long nose turned down over the four hairs of his yellow mustache, and his eyes would flash and he would stretch out his hand from his old sleeve and you could see what he was describing.
A fine rain was falling and the puddles quivered in the gray uncertain moonlight.
Instantly a violent trembling quivered through the lovely shape; the head and body broke away as in a thousand lines; and a rose was lying at the bottom of the goblet, in whose redness that sweet smile still seemed to play.
While the tones departed, the sparkling net quivered to and fro as in pain.
The sky stood full of glittering dewdrops from the everlasting Morning; and the stars quivered joyfully asunder, and sank, resolved into beams, down into the hearts of men.
The young girl was smiling, but tears stood in her eyes, and her lips quivered as she spoke.
She sat like a dazed creature, looking down into the casket which lay open in her lap, with ten thousand rainbow fires leaping out of it, as the blaze in the chimney quivered and danced and blazed over the diamonds.
Tears trembled in the man's voice, and the words quivered on his lips as he added: "My poor darling.
A sweet, complacent smile quivered around those old lips, as the countess settled back among her cushions.
There it lay with large spaces of water clear as a mirror, with jagged tongues of gray-blue rippled water, with streaks that were smooth and streaks that were rippled, and the sunlight rested on the smooth places and quivered in the ripples.
The spectators quivered with pleasure on seeing the chivalrous way in which the stranger behaved.
Sobs tore her ample bosom, her soft frame quivered like a jelly.
Terror widened and fixed her eyes, her lips parted, she quivered as though she had been struck a buffet across the face.
Her lips quivered as she slept like the lips of a hurt child, her eyelashes were yet wet with tears.
Her eyes fell--her lips quivered for an instant--she made no reply.
The terrified servants passing to and fro heard high words that evening in the little library, and the voices of father and son quivered with passion.
Father used to say----' For a moment her voice quivered and her eyes filled with tears.
Uncle Chris' lips quivered in a spasm of pain, and he was silent for a moment.
Uncle Chris quivered slightly, but braced himself to do his duty.
These, however, were overruled; and, sweeping around the low peninsula of Cairo, our steamer met the torrent and quivered in every limb.
The Princess quiveredbeneath his hand on her shoulder.
A sound of trumpets quivered in the gentle stillness, and the sick man leant forward, gripping the arms of his chair.
Her dusky brown hair was slightly powdered and gathered on the top of her small head by a huge tortoiseshell comb set with red coral, long blue jet earrings quivered in her ears, and she wore a necklace of fine pearls.
A kind of spasm passed over the face of Arthur Franklyn, and his lips quivered as he replied-- "I have reason to remember that we did so, owing to my watch being five minutes too fast.
With outward ease Mary Armstrong advanced to shake hands with the visitor, while every nerve quivered with surprise and excitement.
At the same instant a blast of intolerable flame erupted from the Boise's flank and the whole enormous fabric of her shook and quivered under the force of a terrific detonation.
Under their gay laughter quivered the undertone of excitement.
She was still smiling, but now her sensitive mouth quivered suddenly.
The Fall of Babylon, mother," Miss Hamilton put in with a smile, in the curves of which quivered a hint of scornfulness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quivered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
