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1. That quivers; tremulous.
a. 1547. Surrey, Æneid, II. 224. Holding … her targe and quiuering spere.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., VI. 273. A soft paued lodging for quiuering Goates.
1700. Dryden, trans. Ovid’s Metam., XIII. 124. Let his quiv’ring Heart confess his Fear.
1735. Somerville, Chase, III. 429. The quiv’ring Bog Soft yielding to the Step.
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk., I. 124. The sequestered pool, reflecting the quivering trees.
1871–4. J. Thomson, City Dreadf. Nt., XVII. ii. The quivering moon-bridge on the deep black stream.
2. Of the nature of quivering.
1849. Noad, Electricity (ed. 3), 42. A wide brush of pale ramifications, having a quivering motion.
1882. A. W. Ward, Dickens, iv. 103. The story of experiences … to which his own mind could not recur without a quivering sensitiveness.
