(Of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear.
1 Can I run water, great one? Zvain asked with a quavering voice.
2 Surprise and incredulity were in the tones of the quavering old voice.
3 The terrible silence was broken by Zillah, who spoke in quavering accents.
4 She went up to the door and, in a quavering voice, asked:
5 Presently her voice rang out in a shrill note of quavering rage:
6 And in quavering falsetto, with the customary broken-notes, the old man sang.
7 A faint, quavering moan stopped her at the corner of the house.
8 Her voice was a quavering , silvery thing, utterly fascinating and completely inhuman.
9 And on the drive to Joyfields she stilled the girl's quavering with:
10 The first note of the quavering high-pitched voice had, however, reassured him.
11 Mrs. Melrose awoke from her trance of terror with a quavering breath.
12 And when Parliament heard that quavering voice it grew palsied with fear.
13 There was a quavering word of admonition and a chorus of encouragement.
14 The voice of the muezzin, high and quavering , echoed in the air.
15 At the beginning of that quavering statement Dexter Allison's lips fell apart.
16 Her voice had a quavering note, new to him, and extremely alarming.
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