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All within was dark, and yet Cleek's tense nerves gave a little quivery jump.
THE RIDDLE OF THE PURPLE EMPERORMARY E. HANSHEW AND THOMAS W. HANSHEWThe bandsmen up on the stage, massed with palms and flags and greenery, were making quivery-quavery sounds on their instruments.
POPPYCYNTHIA STOCKLEYIt always gives me a quivery thrill to realize who you are as well as how nice you are.
THE THING FROM THE LAKEELEANOR M. INGRAMRoll of Bensoulbenjamin rolled to the quivery loveshivery roofpanes.
ULYSSESJAMES JOYCEFor a minute, it had a strange, quivery appearance—unreal and unsubstantial.
THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLANDWILLIAM HOPE HODGSONYou know she never can stand anybody all jumpy, and jerky, and quivery, like you are now.
A LITTLE MOTHER TO THE OTHERSL. T. MEADEHanging from it were all kinds of glittery, quivery, sparkly things in silver and gold.
MAIDA'S LITTLE SHOPINEZ HAYNES IRWINI asked, 170 with a quivery little feeling that the world was going topsyturvy with other people besides me.
AMAZING GRACEKATE TRIMBLE SHARBERYes, and she had felt funny herself that evening—a numb, quivery, prickly kind of sensation: it may have been the thunder-storm!
BRESSANTJULIAN HAWTHORNEThe tentacles fell away, fading to nothingness before the charges that showed quivery blue in the dark.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE, JUNE, 1930VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO QUIVERY
- aflutter
- afraid
- aghast
- agitated
- anxious
- chicken
- chickenhearted
- diffident
- discomposed
- disquieted
- disturbed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- goose-bumpy
- have cold feet
- hesitant
- in a dither
- intimidated
- jittery
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mousy
- nerveless
- nervous
- nervy
- panicky
- perturbed
- phobic
- pusillanimous
- quivery
- rabbity
- running scared
- scared
- shaky
- sheepish
- shrinking
- shy
- skittish
- solicitous
- spineless
- tense
- timid
- timorous
- tremulous
- uneasy
- unmanly
- weak-kneed
- worried
- yellow
- all aquiver
- aquake
- aquiver
- ashake
- faltering
- fluctuant
- infirm
- insecure
- jellylike
- jerry-built
- jittery
- nervous
- not set
- precarious
- quaking
- quivery
- rattletrap
- rickety
- rocky
- rootless
- shaking
- tottering
- tottery
- tremorous
- tremulous
- tumbledown
- unfirm
- unsettled
- unsound
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsure
- vacillating
- wavering
- weak
- wobbly
- yielding
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