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Example sentences for "quivering"

Lexicographically close words:
quitting; quittor; quiuer; quiver; quivered; quiveringly; quivers; quivi; quixotic; quiz
  1. He shines with the glory reflected from the smile of a reconciled God; all the tints of heaven's rainbow glitter in his quivering wings, their motion is light, and their inscription is "joy.

  2. De Aguilera, his lip quivering as he spoke.

  3. He clutched Mason's arm and pointed a quivering finger toward Philip.

  4. He coaxed her to sit down again, put his strong hand on her quivering one, marveling in tenderness at its smallness and softness.

  5. He saw she was drawn and quivering with pain, even now as she tried to speak cheerfully.

  6. A quivering dimple of tenderness hung for a moment in Emilia's cheeks, as she looked upon Wilfrid.

  7. She stopped on a tearless sob; and, at her fingers' ends, Wilfrid felt the quivering of her frame.

  8. Liputin began "in the name of all," and declared in a voice quivering with resentment "that if things were going on like that they might as well blow their brains out.

  9. They were all moved to tears looking at his sunken and exhausted face and his blanched and quivering lips.

  10. Ces vauriens, ces malheureux," he began in a voice quivering with indignation; miserable and hateful recollections stirred painfully in his heart.

  11. Pyotr Stepanoviteh jumped up from his seat and instantly handed him an inkstand and paper, and began dictating, seizing the moment, quivering with anxiety.

  12. Shatov seemed to be quivering all over, and he got up from his seat.

  13. He stopped short and seemed almost quivering with resentment.

  14. To tilt with slender quivering shape, likest the nut-brown spear.

  15. Let one of you charge down upon him and show him the keen sword and the quivering spear; for know that when many do battle with one man it is foul shame, even though he be a kemperly wight and an invincible knight.

  16. He could have wept, he could have sung; he only shuddered and lay silent under the stress of that strange, sweet passion that quickened his heart, deepened his eyes, and made his breath come and go with a quivering sound.

  17. Troutt on the corner, quivering with excitement.

  18. With the razor he cut through the quivering muscles, tendons and nerves.

  19. The next moment a rifle ball pierced his heart, and he lay quivering in death.

  20. Soon the foremost of the pack fastened their fangs into the calf, the rest were instantly upon him, and the quivering animal was pulled down, torn to pieces and devoured almost before he was dead.

  21. Death, as he laid his icy finger on the quivering little lips.

  22. Lives there one who, at Fashion's bidding, stands back, nor presses her lips to the little marble form that once lay warm and quivering beneath her heart-strings?

  23. Again you turn to your sleepless pillow; your quivering nerves and throbbing temples sending to your pale lips this prayer, "Would to God it were morning!

  24. And her mother pressed loving kisses upon the upturned face, all quivering with the excitement of telling her news.

  25. He turned suddenly and went down toward the river, the sad, yellow moon sending his brown, elongated shadow with its quivering tuft of feathers far along the stretches of white snow.

  26. Every nerve of the outraged soul was quivering with excitement.

  27. Her eyes were scarcely ready for the sight of that white livid face, quivering in every nerve with human agony, nor her ears for the fierce cry which broke from the parched bloodless lips.

  28. When the lady sprang lightly down, and held out her arms to receive him as he alighted, the little fellow made a nervous leap clear of her, and stood shaking and quivering with the effort, on his guard, and distrustful of any advance.

  29. A trembling like palsy seized upon him as he gazed at it: then he lit his taper once more, and with a prayer upon his quivering lips burnt it.

  30. It was not far, but he was unused to violent exertion, and his little body and brain were both quivering with excitement and with the shock of his fall.

  31. The famished condor immediately attacks the raw, quivering flesh of the poor beast; and while it is thus engaged, the bull is driven into the midst of the arena, to afford amusement to the savage spectators.

  32. At first these exiles, dumb with pain and grief, listened, but listened with no light quivering in the eye, and no hope flitting like sunshine across the face.

  33. Around their quivering limbs the infidelity of that day made the fagots to flame, and it taught the red tongues of cruel death to creep about their smoking bodies.

  34. He had fallen on his knees in the place where he stood, his wild eyes, his quivering hands raised to her.

  35. She took his powerful hands in her own weak trembling ones, and guided them to her quivering lips.

  36. They will be here shortly, and all you have to do is to be patient and behave as well as you can until the time comes for your trial;" and she cast on me a menacing look from her green and quivering pupils, indescribably feline.

  37. I will stand Beside her when she sings, And watch her fine and fairy hand Flit o'er the quivering strings!

  38. I turned for one moment with an involuntary feeling of appeal to Mrs. Clayton, but her cold, green eyes were quivering in accordance with the smile that stretched her thin lips to a line of mocking mirth.

  39. I ever find another dart like that, never to be recalled, to launch in the right direction, and fix quivering in the eye of the target?

  40. Then Bob, his nerves still quivering with excitement, told Ah-Sam what he must do.

  41. This time there was no such quivering of the leaves throughout the whole tree as there had been before.

  42. Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still!

  43. Riata coiled in his hand, Jack rode closer and leaned to the girl, his eyes and his voice caressing, his lips quivering for the kiss he craved.

  44. Therefore, Jack's lips found reason to tighten and cease their eager quivering for a kiss.

  45. He came out and stood before his beloved "patron," his whole fat body quivering with amazed indignation, so that the bottle which the seƱora had filled for him shook in his hand.

  46. The mien of the queen was no longer so calm and rigidly composed as it had been before, and when she spoke, there was a slight quivering discernible in her voice.

  47. The queen shuddered in her inmost soul at this question, and hid her quivering face on the faithful breast of the princess.

  48. And she did come back soon, this worthy woman, with triumphant bearing and flashing eyes, looking as the cat looks when it has a mouse in its soft velvety paws, and is going to push its poisonous claws into the quivering flesh.

  49. She had spoken this loudly, and her quivering voice wakened the echo which had been artistically contrived there, to repeat cheery words and merry laughter.

  50. But Princess Elizabeth threw herself into her arms, and pressed on the cold, quivering lips of the queen a long, fervent kiss.

  51. She said this with quivering voice and moving tones, the tears filling her eyes; and while she was speaking the noise was hushed, and even these savage creatures were transformed into gentle, sympathetic women.

  52. He fixed his great eyes upon me, and his quivering lips murmured: 'God bless you!

  53. He left his mother, took the jug which stood upon a table between two beds, filled a glass with water from it, and held it to the dry, quivering lips of the sick one.

  54. Even Mr Clifford's attempts at consolation he could hardly bring himself to listen to courteously, and Jane Sands' tearful eyes and quivering voice irritated him beyond all endurance.

  55. Mereac, his voice quivering with fury, "he?


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quivering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.