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  • Quivering at such a high frequency, we have converged into a physical blur.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • Quivering Jerusalem, which knows not which way to turn.

    Kazim Ali: A Walking Guide to the Heart of a City Kazim Ali 2011

  • Quivering beneath the foot of my good friend, the little hatchling struggled to survive.

    Layla Revis: Mrs. Fix It Layla Revis 2011

  • Quivering beneath the foot of my good friend, the little hatchling struggled to survive.

    Layla Revis: Mrs. Fix It Layla Revis 2011

  • Quivering, not with fear but with rage, Ben Bolt perforce endured the buckling around his throat of a thick, broad collar of leather to which was attached a very stout and a very long trailing rope.

    CHAPTER XXXIII 2010

  • Quivering uncontrollably, Isobel turned to lower herself one rung at a time, descending one-handed, with the Poe book still tucked under her arm.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • Quivering on the edge of a heat sink, she sent her next message.

    ALL THE CONTINENTS OF THE SUN • by Avis Hickman-Gibb 2008

  • Quivering uncontrollably, Isobel turned to lower herself one rung at a time, descending one-handed, with the Poe book still tucked under her arm.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • Quivering and sparking as if electricity had been shot through it, the sonata began and ended with playing of steely precision and pulverizing attack.

    Two views of Yuja Wang: In performance... 2010

  • Quivering branches evoke the birds that haunt Cinderella's brain and that peck out her sisters 'eyes; Rapunzel occupies a secluded bower from which her corn-yellow hair dangles like a silken ladder; and the marauding giant (voiced by Judi Dench) emerges from the treetops with luminous eyes made of dustbin lids and bicycle wheels.

    Into the Woods 2010

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