What is "quiverings"

Usage examples of "quiverings".

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.

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.