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Are pupils and parents really so terrible they can reduce grown-up professionals to quivering wrecks?
And it was a relief when Jude swung the steel-hooked gaffing pole over the side, and hauled on board a solid, quivering muscle of a fish.
Her eyes were closed, and she was quivering her lips like an opera singer, though it wasn't affecting her singing at all.
Maybe you're still raring to go, still quivering to the soca beat, still feeling the Carnival energy.
In the past few years, flying has become such an ordeal that take-off and landing now reduce me to a quivering, sweaty-palmed wreck.
Right at this moment wind is storming, windows are rattling, tree branches are creaking, and leaves are quivering.
Your opponent comes out, quivering with righteous indignation, spoiling for a fight.
She held a dull black automatic handgun, aiming it at the tall man with quivering hands.
Forget about those tales of huge tubs filled with ice cold beer served by doe-eyed barmaids just quivering to hear your band.
Faber's first novel tears away protective layers of propriety, leaving the flesh and bone of society quivering and in full view.
It shook him to the core with a ghostly shaft of fear impaling his quivering heart.
She touched her lips with shaky fingers, lips quivering as the tears ran past them.
Something tinkles inside you, shivering, quivering, and then it breaks, shattering like a crystal constellation.
He felt his lips quivering, and blinked through the mist that had blurred his vision.
Panettiere channels her best teenage Elizabeth Taylor with wide, expressive eyes and a quivering lip to signal imminent emotion.
She was looking at him with big, round, hopeful eyes, her lips quivering, and his mind was a total blank.
Maybe the rest of the city is quivering in terror, cowering at home, hiding with unconquerable fear?
As usual, the food mountain expressed itself in quivering, groaning, and loud slurps.
The melodies sometimes get chewed up and spat out, or equally are full of sparkling charm and quivering intent.
The creature roared in agony, thrashing about and spewing gouts of blood, until it lay quivering in a pool of its own gore.
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The old carlin stretched out on the floor with her two feet and two hands quivering.
It looks unhappily as if the high-minded director and her main character are dipping a quivering toe in the waters of non-PC sexuality.
By means of these assured yet quivering lines, she transposes the painterly flourishes of the original paintings into crisp, staccato markings.
His hands were quivering, and his stomach felt as though it were churning and moving.
He snorted indignantly, and walked away across the tram rails, his hump quivering with rage.
She's all but quivering in anger, her green eyes bright with anger and her hands clenched into small fists.
Her lips were a quivering blue and her deathly pallor betrayed her usual peaches and cream complexion.
If one were to look at the heart as it were fibrillating, it would look like a bowl of Jell-O quivering.
Her tone had a note of finality to it and intuitively Nell rose, hands quivering with anticipation as she reached for the shabby black book.
He was shirtless, exceedingly pale, a quivering tendril of a man trying to dodge a patch of sun that persisted in dappling his face.
The wind rushed through the holes in the booth, prickling my skin like wisps of memories flooding my quivering brain.
Nichara made a grim expression and drew her cloak more tightly about herself and prodded at her cheeks with quivering fingers.
I have been reduced to a quivering heap of tears after getting mushroom gunk under my fingernails when cooking Peter dinner.
Her quivering sobs are more the stuff of movies than of daily serials which offer more intrigue than gut-wrenching emotion.
They all fall to the ground and lie quivering like the tail of a hunted lizard.
He held his breath as he positioned himself meticulously in the tanbark, shoelaces of his sneakers quivering.
Swung around the head by a string they produce quivering vibrations in the air and have particular significance for initiation rites.
I loved the way that the stage just transformed itself with quivering strands of material.
She was met with the tip of a black sword quivering centimeters away from her nose.
Denis Behan was introduced and bustled his way through the game, making ribbons of Clive Delaney and reducing Derry's defence to a quivering wreck.
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It's with optimistic bravado that I approach yon quivering mountain.
But most of our quivering outrage is directed not at those who were clearly dishonest, but those who offend our sensibilities.
Griffith loosened the reins and the quivering horse beneath him sprung into a flat-out gallop, nearly unseating him as they rode towards the fallen figure.
Immaculata, 19 years old and high-strung, appears at my bedroom door, hands on hips and nostrils flaring, every atom of her quivering with melodrama.
My body shook with the ground, my insides quivering, my ears splitting.
Her chin began a spasmodic quivering and the tears sprang into her eyes.
She reached out to him, her whole body quivering, and touched his hand.
I still had all my indistinctive cuts, and the pulsating throb on my arm, beautiful quivering under the pressure of the gauze, wasn't helping much.
I used to love doing that, jumping feet first into quivering mountains of brown and red, kicking my way through the gutters where the leaves collected best.
In this series, vases float atop color fields, but here the vase is partly obliterated, as it is enveloped in smokelike, quivering strokes of black.
She propels my quivering body forward with her arm that's on my shoulder.
So rather than flash fry the whole slab, Uenosan sliced the steak into cubes and flipped them from face to face, leaving the centre of each red, raw and quivering.
A seasonal blood orange jelly with tiny triangles of orange flesh came quivering to the table with a satiny-smooth orange blossom ice cream just beginning to melt on top.
The woman who took no nonsense from a cabinet of quivering, jelly-kneed men, some of whom loved her, some of whom loathed her.
Fear like quivering rain after a lightening bolt periled the air.
We all hugged her after she slunk back to us, still quivering.
The disconnect between his robust frame and sickly music mirrors the tension in the songs themselves, between quivering ephemera and hulking clangor.
He delighted in this and would keep after me till I was a quivering mass of uncontrollability.
Jolene pulled off Kip's pants, exposing his quivering pink member to the lesbionic onlookers.
Deliberately, and with a peculiar quivering smile, that seemed to overspread her whole body, she put her mouth on his.
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The quivering mass of jello rocked back and forth incessantly but remained on the plate.
There is always some thoughtless talebearer ready to gather up the arrows of gossip and thrust them into the quivering heart of the victim.
Just as much as the sharks will have you quivering with fear, the family of Gentoo penguins will have you quivering with laughter.
Ten feet away, Sher scrunched into a quivering ball and began to cry.
The lady was publicly knouted, had her tongue cut out, flung, a piece of quivering and bleeding flesh, on a cart, and banished to Siberia.
My beaters bring a lovely assortment of silkycoated cockers and springer spaniels, quivering with excitement.
Walkers have been left baffled by the quivering, translucent mass, nicknamed Star Jelly because it reputedly fell to Earth from meteors.
So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust.
Curious or hunting cats will have slightly forward, quivering whiskers, while nervous or anxious cats will pin their whiskers flat against their face.
She yielded resistlessly, every fibre of her being quivering responsive to the overwhelming passion of love which had at last stormed and broken down all barriers.
What was expressed by the whole of the count's plump figure, in Marya Dmitrievna found expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose.
He was a large fleshy man, weighing at least two hundred pounds, and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering jelly-mountain of fat.
Examples from Classical Literature
He looked a quivering, shimmering, changeful creature, the color of golden-rod.
Her heartstrings were at a dangerous stretch, she quivering at the point of tears.
He dropped to the ground and stood there, quivering in every muscle and nickering plaintively.
At the very first steps of Peri we slipped about in all directions, like quivering fragments of blancmange.
The animals responded nobly to our urging, though their nostrils were blood-red, and their quivering haunches flaked with spume.
He stood at last, quivering, leaning against a gigantic I-beam that supported a heavy-casting freightway.
With quivering nostrils she was inhaling the effluvia of the perfumes and of the couples.
But ere the remonstrance was uttered, the bird lay quivering on the ground.
Sometimes she turned her face to the wall and lay there, not even a ruffle quivering.
I saw the tremor shake their bristling hosts, oscillate the great spire, set the faceted disks quivering.
Conscious of the tautness of his own nerves, strung like quivering violin strings.
Down by the curb one of those quivering automobiles seemed to purr, raspingly, in its sleep.
There sat Kate before the looking-glass, with flushed cheeks and quivering mouth.
The wild creature, quivering with ferocious passions, put a fondling arm around the manslayer.
Her hands were quivering as she pinned back the hair which had slid down her neck.
The stranger was still speaking, when a small quivering flame played on the corners of the palisado nearest the burning pile.
His nostrils were quivering, his eyes were ablaze, and the expression of his face was shocking.
What could he do but kiss her quivering lips and smile at the whimsical way in which she expressed her contriteness?
She lived amongst them, a passive victim, quivering in every nerve, as if she were flayed.
Jerry leaned forward in quivering preparedness as he saw, in the floodlight of radiance, the body of Winslow lying on the floor.
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Once a splash in the shadows set his nerves quivering, but it was only a muskrat.
I will engage them conversationally and ravish them with erect and quivering adjectives.
Lip quivering but head held with a quiet proud demeanor, she turned toward the cabana wherein the American lay.
But, to Daoud's relief, Fra Tomasso only shut his eyes and shook his head, his cheeks quivering gently like a bowl of frumenty.
After a little while there was a perceptible quivering of the eyelids and twitching of the mouth.
Was it a mere thrill of the dead air, too slight to be heard, but quivering in every spiritual sense?
A chunk of exhaust pipe had split away, and was quivering before the rush of air like a reed in an organ pipe.
In her eagerness, it was as if the halo of joy that surrounded her were quivering.
Louise, rosily alive, and quivering with eagerness, was waiting for her comments.
Her brown face, upraised, was stained with tears, and her spare form was quivering.
No leisure is here, only quivering, intense, agonized anxiety.
When he arrived home at three o'clock he was looking as white as a sheet, and his lips were quivering.
Pale and quivering with anger, Grenfell could not utter a word.
Greasy reflectors of ribbed tin backed them, making quivering disks of light.
She lay listening to a quivering, gibbering tune that she did not know.
The stalks, and blades, chequer my tablet with their, quivering shades.
The light at the top was suddenly whisked out, and from the darkness came a reedy, quivering voice.
She scrubbed the knuckles of one hand roughly across her quivering lips.
Upon the baseball field Joe Welling stood by first base, his whole body quivering with excitement.
The quivering vitality that emanates from his pictures is thrilling.
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His neck was quivering with nervous weakness and the muscles of his arms felt numb and bloodless.
Hippolyte turned upon him, a prey to maniacal rage, which set all the muscles of his face quivering.
I heard a malignant, crackly laugh by the fire, and turning, beheld that odious Joseph standing rubbing his bony hands, and quivering.
He laid hold of me by the throat, and griped me with a quivering grasp.
Hands quivering, Thad snapped back the hasp, lifted the lid.
I slashed the horse with the whip, and gave him a loose rein until Woking and Send lay between us and that quivering tumult.
He saw the ridiculous doll drop from its owner's arms to lie sprawled and pathetic beside the quivering body of the little girl.
She held out her quivering hands which the wind was lashing.
His whole body was a quivering vehicle for the leashed soul of speed.
I stood quivering, and moa thrust her weapon against my face.
Under that muscled body of his he was a mass of quivering sensibilities.
Undressing, and quivering like an overdriven horse, he lay down on the sofa, drew his greatcoat over him, and at once sank into oblivion.
She caught sight of a little green table, blotched with the checkered sunlight that filtered through the quivering leaves overhead.
But all the while he clung fast to the slender, quivering body of Nanette.
Evelyn spoke quickly and nervously, and with quivering lips.
A moment, and the quivering string sang death as the shaft whistled across the glade.
I was looking beyond them at the doorway filled with quivering silk and plush, black faces, white eyeballs, woolly pates.
Her lips were quivering, and tears were welling into her eyes.
The wobegone face hid its crimson tide in two quivering hands.
Yet every now and then one would come straight towards me, setting loose a quivering horror that made me quick to elude him.
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In another moment I was standing outside the hovel, my chair-rail in my hand, every muscle of me quivering.
It was a landscape of Bocklin's beside a landscape of Leader's, strident and ill-considered, but quivering into supernatural life.
The insulted visitor moved to the spot where he had laid his hat, pale and with a quivering lip.
Then, nearer, I perceived a strange light, a pale, violet-purple fluorescent glow, quivering under the night breeze.
A solid line of blue, rising and falling like the back of a caterpillar in haste, would swing up through the quivering dust and trot past to a chorus of quick cackling.
Mademoiselle had glided from the Chopin into the quivering lovenotes of Isolde's song, and back again to the Impromptu with its soulful and poignant longing.
Think of reading Lucy to a class, and when you finish, seeing a fourteen-year-old pair of lips quivering with delight, and a pair of eyes brimming with comprehending tears!
Pain, shame, ire, impatience, disgust, detestation, seemed momentarily to hold a quivering conflict in the large pupil dilating under his ebon eyebrow.
He was waiting on the platform when we stepped out, and we could see in the light of the station lamps that he was very pale, and quivering with agitation.
It did not try to get away, but crouched down, quivering and cowering, and was in such a pitiable state of terror that I tried, though without effect, to comfort it.
Superb, majestic, his graceful tail extended and quivering, and his two eyes of fire riveted full upon his prey, stood Numa EL ADREA, the black lion.
He missed it, fell back, and sat with his head sunk between his long legs, his antennae quivering, as if he were waiting for something to come and finish him.
