aquiver

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He had gone inland about half a mile when there came suddenly to his trained nostrils the one scent that sets the whole savage jungle aquiver--Tarzan smelled man The wind was blowing off the ocean, so Tarzan knew that the authors of the scent were west of him.

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  • Nerves aquiver, Sophie surrendered to the inevitable with a suffocatingly gracious inclination of her head. —  A Lady of Expectations
  • And he almost certainly wouldn't step out of the smoking clone chamber, "damp member aquiver (P. 108)" and say "I make this look good." —  Cracked: All Posts
  • He had gone inland about half a mile when there came suddenly to his trained nostrils the one scent that sets the whole savage jungle aquiver--Tarzan smelled man The wind was blowing off the ocean, so Tarzan knew that the authors of the scent were west of him. —  Return of Tarzan
  • There were no tears in her eyes; racking sobs shook her slender body; every nerve was aquiver, he could see. —  Truxton King A Story of Graustark
  • No sooner had his eyes beheld the straight lines of streets and houses than his brain was aquiver, and he had conceived that Egyptian prose poem. —  Shallow Soil
 

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