unquivering
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a word derived from
quivering.
quiveringadjectivetrembling or shaking with a slight, rapid motion, or seeming to tremble or shake.
Example Sentences
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"We've never settled," she says of the label's lawsuits, making unquivering eye contact.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2011
She gazed straight down at me from almost twenty feet, unquivering, wordless, her hair rubbing against the branches, hanging those narrow bare feet out into the air.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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Softly, oh, softly, lest He pass me by, And that unquivering Light toward which my longing soul And tortured body through these years have writhed, Fade to the dun darkness of my days.
From Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
The water, landlocked among a thousand islands, lay still as oil under our bows, and the wake of the screw broke up the unquivering reflections of pines and cliffs a mile away.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
He dropped upon his knees and called the girl's name softly but it awakened no response in the sightless eyes, no tremor in the parted, unquivering lips.
From The Courage of Captain Plum by James Oliver Curwood