aquiver
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[edit]aquiver (not comparable)
- In a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering.
- 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC, page 35:
- Sighing softly to the river
Comes the lonely breeze,
Setting Nature all a-quiver,
Rustling through the trees,
- 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 279:
- There is no colour line in love, and though a-quiver with ungovernable fright, for Ursula's sake black Woona went graphically through the final death contortions of the poisoned mangy pup.
- 1926, R.P. Weston, Bert Lee, What I Want is a Proper Cup of Coffee:
- He said "Stand and deliver / For I am all aquiver."
- 1961, Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us[1], revised edition, New York: Oxford University Press, Part 1, p. 66:
- Almost the whole continental rim of the Pacific basin is aquiver with earthquakes and fiery with volcanoes, some frequently active, some extinct, some merely sleeping a centuries-long sleep between periods of explosive violence.