Sentence examples for quiver on from inspiring English sources

That one — quiver on quiver on quiver — was almost impossible to swallow, but it rewarded you with a briny, primal rush.

His alto sax retained its familiar brightness of tone on fast tunes and clarinet-like quiver on the slow ones, his phrasing its quicksilver rhythmic energy.

What a pleasure it must be, one of those overexcited pleasures that quiver on the border of pain, to feel the world with one's whole body, to move across the earth with those new nerve cells and raw muscles.

Players quiver on the field with potential crushed tibias and ruptured spleens, which serve to stop the clock.

The cylindrical mass of canned cranberry sauce would quiver on its plate, only slightly decimated, throughout the evening.

The bow-brandishing shows no signs of stopping, with heroes shooting from a quiver on at least two new TV shows: NBC's "Revolution" and the CW's "Arrow".

So if at any point the ground beneath you is even quivering, go on high alert.

He likes the picture of himself in his own mind as he stares out sternly over the river, frowning in sunlight, his fingertips resting on top of the inner tube, his other hand on his hip, Huck Finn on the shore of the Mississippi, an Indian brave with a quiver of arrows on his back, getting ready to go down to the canoes.

Beneath it, a mourning Venus and crying Cupid are putting out the Flame of Love, as a Dove of Peace looks on, perched on a quiver of arrows.

With so many recent small-plane crashes on the North Slope keeping pilots quivering on the ground, I eventually found myself with one last option: a search-and-rescue pilot named Gary Quarles, who owned a small vintage helicopter with a rebuilt engine, though he seemed as reluctant as all the rest to take on the potential complications of the job.

It was your columnist's next-door neighbour, a woman of mild temperament, uncharacteristically a-quiver on this occasion with moral indignation.