"Quiveringly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... room"—she looked quiveringly at the closed door—"for a moment, I misunderstood again. I thought you were trifling with me. I think I felt for the first time that perhaps I was not what I had been—when I came out of the old life! I wanted to make sure, and I stooped to ...
— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock
... and stood beside him. Quiveringly, in a voice she hardly recognized as her own, she spoke. "You were with him. You ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... furnace they've thrown all their 'treasures,' Knowing that out of the vibrating whole, Quiveringly molten, pulsating, gleaming, Europe shall ...
— Over the Top With the Third Australian Division • G. P. Cuttriss
... still dusky and pale. At first the golden light seemed to hang like a wave upon the rim of the canyon; the trees and bushes up there, which one scarcely noticed at noon, stood out magnified by the slanting rays. Long, thin streaks of light began to reach quiveringly down into the canyon. The red sun rose rapidly above the tops of the blazing pines, and its glow burst into the gulf, about the very doorstep on which Thea sat. It bored into the wet, dark underbrush. The dripping cherry ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather
... mightn't he do next? When she heard movements in the chamber of death it seemed to her that of all the people there, most probably it was he who made them. She would not have been amazed if he had suddenly appeared in the doorway of her room, anger-white and his hand quiveringly extended, spluttering some complaint. ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... room, now dark, and now charged with a red light, vaporous and vivid, that ran in furious pulses, as it were the currents of her blood made visible. The room thus opened was tenanted by the revolting image of Lady Cayley. Now it loomed steadily in the dark, now it leapt quiveringly into the red, vaporous light. She could not see her husband, but she had a sickening sense that he was there, looming, and that his image, too, would leap into sight at some signal of her unwilling thought. She knew that that back room would remain, built ...
— The Helpmate • May Sinclair
... donne cent vers a copier!" said M. Bonzig, and his eyes quiveringly glittered through his glasses as ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... and disgust he dreaded. But she lay quite still until he finished, though once or twice she shuddered and he felt the quickened beating of her heart. And for long after his muffled voice had died away she remained silent. Then her thin hand crept quiveringly up to his hair, touching it shyly, and two great tears rolled down her face. "Barry, I've been so lonely"—it was the cry of a frightened desolate child—"if you have no pity on yourself, will you have no pity ...
— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull |
