An almost pleasurable sensation of fright

Usage examples of quiver.

Mama Therese marched ahead with forbidding frown and quivering chins, with the militant carriage of misprized and affronted rectitude.

While these unfinished exclamations were actually passing my lips I chanced to cross that infernal mat, and it is no more startling than true, but at my word a quiver of expectation ran through that gaunt web--a rustle of anticipation filled its ancient fabric, and one frayed corner surged up, and as I passed off its surface in my stride, the sentence still unfinished on my lips, wrapped itself about my left leg with extraordinary swiftness and so effectively that I nearly fell into the arms of my landlady, who opened the door at the moment and came in with a tray and the steak and tomatoes mentioned more than once already.

Knife, one of the most strident laymen in that somewhat eccentric and quivering and fundamentalist sect, the Antinomian Church.

Alaina railed at her quivering cousin, then she straightened, almost calmly, and strode arrogantly about the kitchen.

She set the astrolabe on the shelf, rested bow and quiver in the corner, and hung the partridges from the rafters.

Ludlow Baculum looked down at his beautiful, still buffed bod, his lower lip started quivering, and in no time, hot tears were streaming over his cheeks.

Imagination seized on distortions and ran rampant, until quivering flesh balked at mapping the scope of an ordeal driven amok.

Helene looked at them, and quivered amidst the benumbing drowsiness which little by little seemed to fall upon the whole house.

I am not so besotted yet that I do not recognize a hot poker quivering in my belly.

Adam wondered if Billie saw how her mouth quivered at the corner and the panic in her eyes.

Martin and Garret pulled arrows from back quivers in fluid motions, set arrow to bowstring, and let fly with uncommon quickness and accuracy.

Olympos back at the quivering Brane Hole, gave the little moravec a distracted look but nodded and walked with him toward the cluster of Achaean captains.

He had thrown off his steel cap and his brigandine, and had placed them with his sword, his quiver and his painted long-bow, on the top of his varied heap of plunder in the corner.

A gray brindled tomcat perched on the back of the seat and regarded him with a superior smirk, whiskers quivering.

His breath left him in a thunderous rush and she held the phone tight to her ear, her lips brushing the mouthpiece as she imagined his orgasm quivering through her too, through muscles already exhausted, nerves already strummed and sated.