"Quiver" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to death as to a sleep, And died with eager hands held out To reaching hands beyond the deep; And died with choicest bow at hand, And quiver full and arrow drawn For use, when sweet to-morrow's dawn Should wake ...
— The Bridge of the Gods - A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. • Frederic Homer Balch
... spoke, the rigid arms relaxed and the lithe body ceased to quiver. Finally, Lola sank ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer
... bursts of laughter, seconded by tremendous and rapid strokes with their oars, which caused the stiff old canoes to quiver from ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley
... ye the willow-tree Whose gray leaves quiver, Whispering gloomily To yon pale river? Lady, at even-tide Wander not near it, They say its branches ...
— The Fitz-Boodle Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray
... Farina with his arms folded and his legs crossed in the shadow of Margarita's chamber. Gradually he fell into a kind of hazy doze. The houses became branded with silver arrows. All up the Cathedral stone was a glitter, and dance, and quiver of them. In the sky mazed confusion of arrowy flights and falls. Farina beheld himself in the service of the Emperor watching these signs, and expecting on the morrow to win glory and a name for Margarita. ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
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