Quivering

Examples

• She's not dead: her eye-lids are quivering, and here's wet tears a-coming down her cheeks. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Don't say so, Vincy, said the mother, with a quivering lip, if you don't want him to be taken from me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Leitner hated Loerke with an injured, writhing, impotent hatred, and Loerke treated Leitner with a fine-quivering contempt and sarcasm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• His tutor placed him in a chair; his lips were quivering, his eyes brimming. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Say that it does so,' returned Bradley with quivering lips; 'is there no cause for it? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Not,' returned Bella, with quivering lips; 'not Harmon? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He was quivering with silent laughter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• A wonderful tenderness burned in him, at the sight of her quivering, so sensitive fingers: and at the same time he was full of rage and callousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The quivering lips--the throat! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But Loerke pulled himself together, rose, quivering, looking full at Gerald, his body weak and furtive, but his eyes demoniacal with satire. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Lily had risen, and stood pale and quivering before her aunt. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• All was unstable; quivering as leaves, evanescent as lightning. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Her quivering lips, her despairing heart refused to afford her voice to express our misfortune. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This is going too far, her mother answered, with quivering lips, and eyes again instinct by anger. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• A pleasant thank you seemed meant to laugh it off, but a blush, a quivering lip, a tear in the eye, shewed that it was felt beyond a laugh. Jane Austen. Emma.

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