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Margaret's voice was still quavery.
"What do you want?" she asked, furious with herself for producing such a high, quavery sound.
the quavery indecision of her voice
Curtis confides in a quavering voice that he's been feeling sad and lonely as one of the few college students living in a violent housing project.
It came out each a quavery, hissing failure that the ones in the boat, pushing away from the sloop, peered and chuckled.
The thin voice suffered the quavery attrition of surprise.
That brought a smile to her lips--a quavery, uncertain little smile but an augury of better ones to come.
She looked in a recipe book, stirred, clapped her hands, sang hair-raising incantations in a quavery voice, and added a pinch of salt and sulfur.
Her voice rose shrill with quavery passion; she tried to steady her feeble little frame with blue-veined hands on the massive arms of her chair.
I repeated, with a quavery feeling just under my floating ribs, alarmed at the after-light of audacity that still rested on his face, like wine-glow on a rocky mountain-tip.
His call grew quavery and furtive.
He talked broken an' quavery, an' it took him a long time to finish; but when he did quit, he turned on his bad breathin' again.
