Meaning of Quivering | Babel Free

Definitions

A motion by which something quivers or trembles.

Equivalents

Examples

“quiverings of the eyelid”

“The quiverings of incipient harmony were hushed, and the divine sat in speechless and almost terrified astonishment, while she undid the door, and stood up in the sacred desk from which his maledictions had just been thundered.”

“And now the lion lunged suddenly to earth and with a few spasmodic quiverings lay still.”

“There remained only the quiverings—the windows, the steel springs of the bed, the dishes, a chair touching the wall. There came at last a silence so complete she could hear the ticking of the clock under the bed, and the snoring of Sophronie's children behind the wall of the girls' bedroom.”

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