Sentence example with the word 'quavering'

quavering

ague, chorea, drawly, hawking, jerkiness, palsy, quivering, shivers, succussatory, trembling, twitter

Definition adj. (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear

Last update: July 30, 2015


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A quavering voice, a whimsical mind.   [Please select]

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"So you mean me to die in exile," said Julie, with a quavering smile, as she drew off her gloves.   [Please select]

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At the mouth of it a light shone through the darkness, and from it a quavering hymn trembled on the still air.   [Please select]

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Quavering the chords strayed from the air, found it again, lost chord, and lost and found it, faltering.   [Please select]

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Thrush, with quavering emphasis, "one can depend upon you, a man can depend upon you."   [Please select]

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Then he sang a song of ravishment; a song quavering with fear and the pain tugging at his heart.   [Please select]

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"Oh--I don't know what it was," replied Lenore, with quavering voice.   [Please select]

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"Wait a bit, Grandmother," said the old man, in his feeble, quavering voice.   [Please select]

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They would hear a strange, quavering note in the preacher's voice, catch the sense of a piercing, soul-commanding gleam in his eye--not at all to be resisted.   [Please select]

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His quavering voice broke off in a gust of weeping, and his face frankly surrendered itself to the distortions of a crying child's countenance, wide-mouthed and tragically grotesque in its abandonment of control.   [Please select]

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