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42 examples of Quiver in a sentence

If I were to touch the horse here on his skin, the heart puppeteer can shake the body from inside and get the skin to quiver.
News comes again that they are coming through, and the men panic, quiver and run for cover.
The last arrow in their quiver is called quantitative easing (QE), and it is likely to be almost as ineffective in reviving the US economy as anything else the Fed has tried in recent years.
Pathankot could be a signal that they are not reconciled to peace, and a reminder that they have many more arrows in their quiver.
But Abe has two more arrows in his policy quiver.
Quantitative easing and ultra-low interest rates should no longer be the only arrows in the macroeconomic policy quiver.
The trouble is that Macron has too few arrows in his quiver when it comes to lifting French economic growth.
Abe’s supporters reply that the third “arrow” of “Abenomics” – productivity-enhancing structural reforms – has only now been removed from its quiver.
His proposals, he argues, are not an additional arrow in the quiver, but replacements for “traditional Keynesian policies…[that] increase budget deficits and national debt.”
Positive arguments are the sharpest arrows in the quiver of those who want Britain to remain in Europe.
But the third arrow of structural reform has remained in the quiver.
Hosting the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020 has added a fourth arrow to this quiver in the form of increased infrastructure investment and tourism revenue in the years leading up to the Games.
China was reminding America that it still has many economic arrows in its quiver.
It was twenty-five metres beyond the shaft, in a loftier chamber, and placed so solidly on its brick foundation that though it worked at full speed, with all its four hundred horsepower, the movement of its enormous crank, emerging and plunging with oily softness, imparted no quiver to the walls.
When put into a net at the top it struggled fiercely; then, when it felt the ground no longer beneath it, it remained as if petrified and disappeared without a quiver of the skin, with enlarged and fixed eyes.
And there was a slight quiver in his voice, a disquiet which he concealed beneath bursts of gaiety.
A quiver shook her thin under-developed girlish body, and she tried to reply in broken words:"Oh! if it was only me, and the amusement that I get!
He stifled a low cry and his back bent with a quiver.
In short, during that time I have weighed the cares and responsibilities governing brings with it, and by my reckoning I find my shoulders can't bear them, nor are they a load for my loins or arrows for my quiver; and so, before the government threw me over I preferred to throw the government over; and yesterday morning I left the island as I found it, with the same streets, houses, and roofs it had when I entered it.
My mother's cheek was against my own, and I could hear the click of her sobs, and feel her quiver and shake in the darkness.
The man who could enter a drawing-room walking upon his hands, the man who had filed his teeth that he might whistle like a coachman, the man who always spoke his thoughts aloud and so kept his guests in a quiver of apprehension, these were the people who found it easy to come to the front in London society.
So they stood in a quiver of eagerness and expectation, whilst that huge multitude hung so silently and breathlessly upon every motion that they might have believed themselves to be alone, man to man, in the centre of some primeval solitude.
He seemed to be all in a quiver with fear, for his hands twitched as if he had the ague, and his head kept turning to left and right with two bright little twinkling eyes, like a mouse when he ventures out from his hole.
A child of seven years old," he said, "might hit yonder target with a headless shaft; but," added he, walking deliberately to the other end of the lists, and sticking the willow wand upright in the ground, "he that hits that rod at five-score yards, I call him an archer fit to bear both bow and quiver before a king, an it were the stout King Richard himself.""My grandsire," said Hubert, "drew a good bow at the battle of Hastings, and never shot at such a mark in his life--and neither will I.
Her eye kindled, although the blood fled from her cheeks; and there was a strong mixture of fear, and of a thrilling sense of the sublime, as she repeated, half whispering to herself, half speaking to her companion, the sacred text,--"The quiver rattleth--the glittering spear and the shield--the noise of the captains and the shouting!"
The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright.
Mr. Rochester, on hearing the name, set his teeth; he experienced, too, a sort of strong convulsive quiver; near to him as I was, I felt the spasmodic movement of fury or despair run through his frame.
The steam was snorting in the hugebelly of the vessel, which seemed to quiver with impatience.
The first shock of the clapper and the brazen wall made the framework upon which it was mounted quiver.
All at once he rose upright, and a quiver ran through his whole body: "Who is that man?" he muttered between his teeth: "I have always seen her alone before!"