18 examples of aquiver in sentences

Gloria was aquiver with excitement.

" Reined by an unseen tyrant's hand, Spurred by an unseen tyrant's will, Aquiver at the fierce command That goads you up the danger hill, You cry: "O Fate, O Life, be kind!

From dots in the sky no bigger than shoe buttons they speedily became manifest as two aëroplanes aquiver with speed.

He leaned over to get the range of the other's telescope, every nerve in his body suddenly aquiver.

But there beside him clinging to his arm was Tony Holiday aquiver with grief for this same cousin.

" Her nerves aquiver, Jane waited until he was out of the store and then stepped briskly to the place where he had stood.

For a moment, as Peggy Blackton went to her husband, he stood very close to Joanne, and into his eyes she was smiling, half laughing, her beautiful mouth aquiver, her eyes glowing, the last trace of their old suspense and fear vanished in a new and wondrous beauty.

He was drunk with the immeasurable happiness that had come to him, every fibre in him was aquiver with itand yet, possessed of his great joy, he was conscious of a fear; a fear that was new and growing, and which made him glad when he came at last to the little fire in the coulee.

A turn in the trail suddenly revealed him at the edge of the glade, his white mane gleaming and his graceful form aquiver with that unquenchable vitality that seems to be the particular property of northern wild animals; but Ben let him go his way.

Not until she lay in his arms at last, sobbing and laughing, her slender body all aquiver, did she believe.

I saw Alicia straining forward, her face like chalk, her very lips blanched, her whole high-strung body aquiver.

She lured him with her eyes, her lips, her luscious beauty, until he heard no song whatever, until he no longer saw visions of spiritual beatitude, but flesh, ripe flesh, aquiver and awake to him.

The heir of don Ramón, the hope of the District, strode furiously on, his arms aquiver with a nervous tremor.

" Slender, upright, transfigured with a flushed and girlish beauty wholly strange to them, she moved restlessly back and forth across the room, a slim, lovely, militant figure all aglow with inspiration, all aquiver with emotion too long and loyally suppressed.

And then, when the mystery all about them was aquiver, and her vague eyes met his through the magic, acquiescent under a sorcery for which she had no namethen, when all things occult breathed silencethen he had said too much!

Do you wish to go?" The hollow-eyed, heavily bandaged face looked up at him from the straw; and Colonel Arran looked down at it, lips aquiver.

There were sounds, too, that set his great muscles aquiver.

Upborne on the wings of wondrous power, wings all aquiver with their first stupendous leap into the night-sky, the Masterimpassive, watchful, coolseemed as if seated in his easy-chair at Niss'rosh.

18 examples of  aquiver  in sentences