1 The walls of his chest seemed to thrill and quiver as a frail building would do inside when some powerful engine was at work.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W... 2 The friar was now completely accoutred as a yeoman, with sword and buckler, bow, and quiver, and a strong partisan over his shoulder.
3 And at length he ceased to quiver any more, and lay quite still, quite still.
4 Then with a quiver of exquisite pleasure he touched the warm soft body, and touched her navel for a moment in a kiss.
5 She felt the glide of his cheek on her thighs and belly and buttocks, and the close brushing of his moustache and his soft thick hair, and her knees began to quiver.
6 She lay still, feeling his motion within her, his deep-sunk intentness, the sudden quiver of him at the springing of his seed, then the slow-subsiding thrust.
7 On this spring morning she felt a quiver in her womb too, as if the sunshine had touched it and made it happy.
8 She yielded with a quiver that was like death, she went all open to him.
9 And his hands stroked her softly, as if she were a flower, without the quiver of desire, but with delicate nearness.
10 The quiver was going through the man's body, as the stream of consciousness again changed its direction, turning downwards.
11 The mouth seemed formed less to speak than to quiver, less to quiver than to kiss.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 12 He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem 13 A look of surprise passed over his face, and at the first quiver of his eyebrows my heart turned to lead in my breast.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem 14 The puckered eyelids had begun to quiver, and now a pair of vacant gray eyes looked up at us.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 15 Suddenly the enormous mass was seen to quiver, the cart rose slowly, the wheels half emerged from the ruts.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT