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Full of anticipation, perhaps
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quivering
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
shaking, shivering n. A motion by which something quivers or trembles. v (present participle of quiver English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quiver \Quiv"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quivered (kw[i^]v"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Quivering .] [Cf. Quaver .] To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver. The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind. --Shak. ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
adj. vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling ...
Usage examples of quivering.
I had lost the capacity for amazement when I realised that these strange quiverings on the tips of the cervix and even well past it were caused by incredibly long but thin tongues.
It was composed of enormous blocks of granite, a few of which, insecurely balanced, seemed to tremble on their foundations, and Pencroft could feel rapid quiverings under his head as it rested on the rock.
The amoebic alien naturally appreciated flexibility, tubular elongations, and jellylike quiverings of anatomy.
Noises of evening birds lifted, stilled and were replaced by night sounds—the far off coughing growl of a jaguar, rustlings and quiverings and a nearby splash.
Mikkal snuffed the lantern, and soon he heard the sounds and felt the quiverings below him, and thereafter were darkness, stillness, and the wind.
But too late, too late, whirling in the air, the weightlessness impinging upon me, I could feel the quiverings and the quaverings of the stomach and underneath that, the understanding that I might evacuate.
The boy ceased his quiverings, sat up, all his attention upon the dexterous play of the tentacles and the music they conjured forth.