Word: quaverings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under a dark star, Nancy Pringle never knew whether it was the Master of Fassefern who had sired her, or Willie Weams, the groom. Divot Meg, the village's woman, out of compassion for Nancy, swore it was the master, then strangled Nancy's mother lest she quaver her own doubts in the matter. Others, less generous, preferred to believe it was the groom; hoped thereby to establish superiority over the spirited little orphan. The flaccid minister took her in; his wife sanctimoniously bullied her; his old mother defended her in malicious warfare with the wife...
...Germany way, Marie is noisy. Also she has a sense for just what is it to print. When a certain king of France saw his kingdom toppling, he called in the Third Estate. Marie never thought of toppling. She called in the Fourth Estate before there was a quaver. And the Fourth Estate has been true blue. Never once in the long years from 1893 to 1926 have they wavered in their support. So it's Marie of Roumania and Jimmie Welker in a new high hat, etc...Ferndiand's lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters under the cosmetics...
...watching daily from a neighboring window for her arisings; discovers the face to be a carved Christ's; resigns herself once more to loving the celluloid doll in her store-window demonstration of a patent crib. There are moments when the author's sensitive comprehension threatens to quaver and mawk, but these moments are rare and in them quiet ecstasy is equally imminent. Some may say that the frustrated or guilty woman appears rather more frequently in Benefield stories than seems natural; that he is thus limited, perhaps hipped. But not even Hawthorne touched this subject with purer...