Quiver Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Quiver


Quiver like a fiddle string. —Anonymous	1
Quiver like a leaf in the wind. —Anonymous	2
Quiver like jelly. —Anonymous	3
Tremulous quiver, like an arrow full drawn by the strong. —Eugene Barry	4
Quiver, like a weed in water. —R. D. Blackmore	5
Quivering … like a vibrant music-string stretched from mountain peak to sky. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	6
Quiver, as if they stood upon the verge of an imminent peril. —George W. Curtis	7
Quivers like the tail of swine gladdened by a corn feast. —Aubrey De Vere	8
Quivering … like a cunning animal whose hiding-places are surrounded by swift-advancing flame. —George Eliot	9
Quivered like a harp of which the strings are ready to spring. —Gustave Flaubert	10
Quivers as if it were nipped with frost. —Kalidasa	11
Quivered … as a breakwater-pile quivers to the rush of landward-racing seas. —Rudyard Kipling	12
Quivering like a man’s hand when he raises it to say good-bye. —Rudyard Kipling	13
Quivered like a willow wand. —Joaquin Miller	14
Quivered like forest-leaves. —Dante Gabriel Rossetti	15
Quiver … Like weeds unfolding in the ocean. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	16
Quivering as when life is hard on death. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	17
Quiver, Like jewels in the river. —Theodore Tilton	18