Word: quivering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...brown headdress, stood red-faced and short of breath in a deafening din of drums, jangling sleighbells and good-will whoops. One by one, the Chippewas stomped and howled past him to bestow gifts - a buckskin vest and a beaded belt (which he put on), a huge bow and quiver of arrows (one got stuck in his headdress and had to be extricated by a helpful squaw), wild rice, maple syrup and cranberries ("to give nourishment to your body to carry on that great battle for justice...
People who simply put Frankie down as "The Voice" are missing the point, wrote Sunday Timesman Harold Hobson. It is not The Voice, but "The Smile, that does such enormous, such legendary execution ... the shy, deprecating smile, with the quiver at the corner of the mouth, that makes the young ladies in the gallery swoon in ecstasy, and the maturer matrons in the dress circle gurgle with protective delight...
...ominous "explosion on Mars" was reported throughout the world's press and stirred many an uneasy quiver. Some nervous folks thought of the hydrogen bomb and wondered whether the Martians had "got it" before the U.S. or even before the Russians. Others remembered that in H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, the first sign of the interplanetary invasion was great explosions on Mars...
...that it threatens the national economy. Practically overnight, Raft latches on to the right blonde (Nina Foch), who leads him to the right tropical island, where he meets the Master Mind (George Macready), an underworld exquisite with a passion for fine music and archery. Macready, even with his handsome quiver of arrows, is no match for Raft...
Chase It. Henry James was always conscious of the pit. He set some of his novels directly in its depths, populated many of his short stories with jittery, conscience-prodding ghosts. The 18 stories now brought together into one volume are a notable contribution to the quake-and-quiver school of writing; they are also subtle portraits of people disturbed by their own failures and weaknesses...