Example Sentences

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Some forgotten sodalities: For months the world-straddling empire of Henry Ford has quivered and groaned like a leviathan with acute indigestion.

From Time Magazine Archive

The market has quivered, waiting for the U.S. to say when and how it would sell so large an amount of tin, and for what price.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many a little heart has quivered over the punishment inflicted for "lying", when willful misrepresentation was not in his thoughts.

From The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training by Lamoreaux, Antoinette Abernethy

"Often, often, my gracious liege, till his lip has quivered and his eye has glistened!"

From The Vale of Cedars by Aguilar, Grace