Leber sat up, his mouth quivering around a word like a twelveyear-old pursing for a kiss.

It was very calm, completely and utterly still apart from a faint, hardly seen, quivering around the surface.

Soon the bullets whistled about our ears, and some arrows came quivering around us in the earth and in the posts of the palisade.

'You think you can use your persuasion on me, silly devil?' She shook her head, blonde tendrils quivering around her face.