2834 examples of quivered in sentences

But seeing that his friend was overwhelmed with the shock he gave her, his countenance instantly changed; his lip quivered, and his eyes filled with tears.

He was curled up on his seat, underneath his rug, and though his eyelids had quivered with a momentary excitement, he was careful to remain as near as possible motionless.

She had been looking at him while I spoke, and she told me afterwards that something about Uncle John's lips made her cry, they quivered so, and were set afterwards so tight.

You'll see I will find something to do!" There are words spoken at times in life that do not sound bitter though they come from a pitiable depth of anguish, and as James turned from his father he had taken a resolution that convulsed him with pain; his strong arms quivered with the repressed agony, and he hastily sought a distant part of the field, and began cutting and stacking corn-stalks with a nervous energy.

Her wide open eyes darkened; her breathing came in tight, short jerks; her nerves quivered.

Above it the raised plane of the grass-tops, brushed by the wind, quivered and swayed, whitish green, greenish white, in a long shimmering undulation.

The fir trees quivered; they gave out slight creaking, crackling noises as the rain came down.

It was the musictoo much for him!"' Old Tilly gravely explained, but his lips quivered and struggled to smile.

She opened her traveling-bag, and, with hands that almost quivered with impatience, placed upon the toilet-table the silver implements that Honora had sent her and scattered broadcast among them her necklaces and bracelets.

The ice quivered under the sun and the snowclouds rose higher and higher into the blue, and once and again a bell chimed and jangled....

He could see nothing, hear nothing to arouse his faculties; his flesh quivered with pain, although he felt sure no bones were fractured, for he could move both arms and limbs freely, while after the first shock, his mind returned to activity, dominated by the single conviction that he must get away from there before those men could get down stairs.

But nowbut now" her voice quivered again"well, even that can't be said of him now," she said.

Both tone and touch were absolutely gentle, but she shrank from him, shrank and quivered with a nervous repugnance that she was powerless to control.

She went with him without a word; but her whole being throbbed and quivered under his touch as if it were torture to her.

The lightning glanced and quivered about the distant hills and threw a weird and fitful radiance about her bed, extinguishing the dim light thrown by her night-lamp.

It descended in a vast sheet through which the lightning leapt and quivered.

He started and quivered at the unaccustomed sound.

When you found me in the hutwith Guy," her voice quivered a little"you didn't knowthenthat I was with him because he was too ill to be there alone.

There was not a particle of colour on his cheek or lips; his eyes burned as with fever, and his lips quivered as in some unutterable anguish.

His lip quivered with the vain effort to ask an explanation.

In the fond embrace that had passed between her and Mary, it is true her lip had quivered and her cheek had paled, but her agitation passed unnoticed.

The lithe body doubled on a tree trunk, quivered, and sank down, as the dog came free.

When she turned it at length her hands were shaking, shaking so much that the paper rattled and quivered like a living thing.

But her words quivered into silence.

" "Ah! is it true?" "He does not seem as ill as Frank; but there have been bleedings at the nose, which have brought him very low, and which have hitherto been the worst symptoms," and here the steady sadness of his voice quivered a little.

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