"quivering mass" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe something or someone that is shaking or trembling. Example: The small dog was terrified, crouching in the corner as a quivering mass of fur.
Born on Monday, the baby boy was a quivering mass of 3.47 kilograms, or 7.6 pounds.
Likewise, his voice purred with slurry insouciance or shifted to a guttural roar that transformed his body into a quivering mass.
Senator, you've vowed to spend this entire debate standing on Senator Clinton's windpipe while reducing her to a quivering mass of jelly.
The Hatemans also have followers a ghost called Hootman, Jellytussle (a quivering mass of greyish-blue jelly) and Hitmouse, a tiny skewer-carrying journalist who is forever scribbling disagreeable thoughts into his "hating book".
He wasn't so much a walking contradiction as a quivering mass of dreams and ambitions that, depending on how he was feeling and whom he was talking to, created a dizzying array of impressions.
But when he really wants to put a scare into you, he brings on his most fearsome monster of all, that quivering mass of ego and insecurity known as... the writer.
All it takes for an English revolution to collapse is a boss with bad English, enviable posture and a Hobbesian grasp of what it takes to crush the quivering masses of the footballing Leviathan.
Devon Powters of Pop Matters said that "Eight minutes of 'Sir Psycho Sexy' will turn RHCP's young listeners into quivering masses of hormonal jello.
And, taking a few steps from the quivering masses who just sit back and let this sort of shit happen, we're giving in and helping them explain the difference between a Snakehead and a Yardie to a culture that's still wrangling with exactly what it takes to be a Mod.
If you removed the bones from a human body, you would have a quivering, gelatinous mass of organs, muscles and the rest.
Sure, a few million brain cells are assembled in a quivering gray mass, but this conventional appearance is deceiving.
