What is "aquiver"

Usage examples of "aquiver".

He stalked from the cloth, turned, ran, and cast, and his spear, too, hung aquiver from the center of the stroke.

The hadat, light red in color, stood swishing its tail, its head at least the height of my shoulder, its short, soft pelt all aquiver with anticipation.

Maggie with excited touches tried to improve her setting of the table, aquiver with expectancy and suspense at the nearness of the meeting-- every nerve of audition strained to catch the first footfall upon the stairs.

She began to cry, laying her face in her crossed arms, the tears gushing, her whole frame aquiver, and heaving great sobs.

Wings aquiver, the little gar bounced on the balls of its feet, its attention riveted to the flight of the arrow.

The door of the ladies room slammed shut, thus leaving the location of the mysterious transcript unspecified and my left eardrum aquiver in tympanic shock.

He followed, his whiskers aquiver with an intense rush of curiosity he could not quite subdue.

His dyed, pencil-thin moustache is all aquiver, his eyes are fish-like with fright.

Clutching at him, coral-tipped mounds and creamy thighs aquiver as he thrust deep a final time, spilling himself into her.

First he must live that glorious life of youth, of nerves aquiver with ecstasy.

There was a yell of surprise and pain from below and both laser and hand disappeared, the latter with the splinter still standing up in flesh aquiver from the strength the hunchback had summoned to plant it home.

His insecurely reembodied mind, still aquiver with the sick edginess of its escape from death, bombarded with meaningless facts, now under a new threat of death whose very nature he could not begin to comprehend, went reeling back toward the pit.

They were clearly functional, aquiver with life and potential, the limbs of a child, or of an adult who had been treated with the viruses gengineered to stimulate regeneration.

Overhead it shrilled, and outside the breakers cannonaded, their rage aquiver through the island.

There were purple patches on his sunken, veined cheeks, his jowls were aquiver and his thin grey hair dishevelled.