quaver
verb (used without object)
to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble.
had quavered
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past perfectof quaver.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It stood for a moment in rigid immobility, then ere the maniacal echoes of that shout had quavered into silence among the cliffs, it shoggled over the ridge and was lost to view.
From The Sign of the Spider by Bertram Mitford
“But they won’t be--these,” the old voice had quavered.
From Across the Years by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
Lydia had quavered out her happy welcome, her mother had fluttered and smiled.
From Martie, the Unconquered by Kathleen Thompson Norris
When he had quavered through the last note he let the pipes fall and gazed about him with a smile, like a happy old child.
From Hillsboro People by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
"Is that so?" the old gentleman had quavered in an impotence that made him wince with a sense of meanness—meanness to his bold initiator of so many Parisian hours.
From The Reverberator by Henry James
