Definition of Quiveringly

1. adv. With quivering motion.

Definition of Quiveringly

1. Adverb. While quivering, or as if quivering ¹

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Definition of Quiveringly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quiveringly

quitter
quitters
quitting
quitting time
quittor
quittors
quitture
quiver
quivered
quiverer
quiverers
quiverful
quiverfuls
quiverier
quivering
quiveringly
quiverings
quivers
quiversful
quivertip
quivertips
quivery
quixote
quixotes
quixotic
quixotical
quixotically
quixotism
quixotisms
quixotries

Literary usage of Quiveringly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Californian Illustrated Magazine by Charles Frederick Holder, Edward James Livernash (1892)
"... with the sting of ice in the air, the long twilights and that faint, ghostly quiver of lance-like light that shoots quiveringly up the northern sky, ..."

2. Comrades in Service by Margaret Ernestine Burton (1915)
"By them no appeal can go unanswered; their fate is to respond, quiveringly, to every note of suffering and of need. In their souls has been kindled ' the ..."

3. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, Philip Stanhope Worsley (1862)
"... with wondering eye How in the gold he choked the dappled fawn, And how the other, struggling hard to fly, Flashed with her feet and panted quiveringly. ..."

4. Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence (1922)
"Her beauty—that of a shy, wild, quiveringly sensitive thing—seemed nothing to her. Even her soul, so strong for rhapsody, was not enough. ..."

5. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1920)
"... it is difficult to admire a hero whose nature is "quiveringly poised" and who has "fallen into meditative numbness." Nevertheless, there they are. ..."

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