"Quiveringly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... almost careful smartness and conventionality. There was something primitive in her, too, and she became aware of that now. Hitherto she had been inclined to believe that she was essentially complex, cerebral, free from any trace of sentimentality, quiveringly responsive to the appealing voices of the arts, healthily responsive to the joys of athleticism almost in the way of a Greek youth in the early days of the world, but that she was free from all taint of animalism. Men had told her that, in spite of her charm and the fascination they ...
— December Love • Robert Hichens
... his manner of cool insolence changed, and he shot them a look that remained quiveringly in their memories long after the man himself had passed forever out of ...
— The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House • Laura Lee Hope
... brush upon the dressing table and proceeded to gather into a coil the shimmering mass of her fair hair. Suddenly she was afraid, quiveringly afraid of herself, of Gerard and the next two weeks, but most afraid of showing any change in expression to ...
— From the Car Behind • Eleanor M. Ingram
... his hold and faced him, but she kept his arm wound close about her, her hand tight gripped on his. "Are you—angry with me for coming?" she asked him quiveringly. "I—had ...
— Charles Rex • Ethel M. Dell |
