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But Kate Cumberland turned and faced him. He was fairly a-quiver with eagerness and the hate welled and blazed and flickered in his eyes; his face was pale very pale and it seemed to her that she could make out in the pallor the print of the fingers of Buck Daniels and that blow those many days before.
Over a mass of alpine wild flowers hanging heavy and fragrant between rocky clefts two very large and intensely white butterflies fought a fairy battle for the favours of a third a dainty, bewildering creature, clinging to an unopened bud, its snowy wings a-quiver.
I'm too well known. No man on the river would ever have you after that." "You you " Her voice was a-quiver with indignation and loathing, but her lips could not frame an epithet fit for him. He continued rowing for some time, then said: "Will you marry me?" "No! If this thing is ever known, Poleon will kill you or father." For a third time he rested on his oars.
Through twenty-three dreary months those expatriated ones exist in the chill North; in the blessed twenty-fourth month always in burning August, when the melons are luscious ripe and the grapes are ripening, when the sun they love so well is blazing his best and the whole land is a-quiver with a thrilling stimulating heat they go joyously southward upon an excursion which has for its climax the great Félibrien festival: and then, in their own gloriously hot Midi, they really live!
He dismounted with a bound, and as he did so the friends saw that his face was red as with pent-up excitement. Themistocles advanced hastily. “What’s this? Your hands seem a-quiver. Whom has that constable tied up behind him?” “Seuthes!” cried Glaucon, bounding back, “Seuthes, by every god, and pinioned like a felon.”
All a-quiver with fear intermingled with the first glimmering light of a great hope that they hardly dare hope, they flee hastily back to town to tell the others. Now Peter and John, who have been eagerly running, arrive breathless, with John in the lead.
When one of the parent birds of any species simulates by voice or manner the young birds, it is always the female; her heart would naturally be more a-quiver with anticipation than that of the male. On the fifth day the nest was completed and received its first egg. There was considerable delay with the second egg, but it appeared on the second or third day, and the third egg the following day.
"She is certainly behaving wonderfully well," I admitted, my voice all a-quiver with pride. "How does she steer? Is she easy on her helm?" I demanded of the man at the wheel. "Gripes just the leastest bit in the world, sir, but nothin' worth speakin' about.
"Can you make aught o' yonder fearsome thing, like a wart-toad scrabbling on two legs?" Dorothy, teeth set, drove her heels into her gray's ribs and forced him to where my mare stood all a-quiver. "It's a thing from hell," panted Van Horn, fighting knee and wrist with his roan. "My nag shies at neither bear nor wolf! Look at him now!"
Then, again, a fellow had to hold on to his seat with all his might, otherwise the jolt at starting was so tremendous there was no telling where one would get thrown off to. So when we got to the railway station I was all a-quiver. So easily did we get into our compartment, however, that I felt sure the worst was yet to come.
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