But a thin and quavery and over-disturbing sound from the swing-box out on the sleeping-porch brought me up short. |
Her voice is quiet and warm and sometimes quavery, with an occasional crack in it that fleetingly calls up Billie Holiday. |
At that Grannie fell to rocking herself as well as the child, and to singing a hymn in a quavery voice. |
They were all ballads, all sung in a yearning quavery tenor that didn't seem ready to settle anywhere anytime soon and accompanied by the most rudimentary strummed guitar. |
Majeski, a fine young soprano, sounded a touch thin and quavery on this outing. |
A thin, quavery rendering of Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace is unworthy of anybody's life. |