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

Quiver

Quiver like a fiddle string.
—Anonymous

Quiver like a leaf in the wind.
—Anonymous

Quiver like jelly.
—Anonymous

Tremulous quiver, like an arrow full drawn by the strong.
—Eugene Barry

Quiver, like a weed in water.
—R. D. Blackmore

Quivering … like a vibrant music-string stretched from mountain peak to sky.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Quiver, as if they stood upon the verge of an imminent peril.
—George W. Curtis

Quivers like the tail of swine gladdened by a corn feast.
—Aubrey De Vere

Quivering … like a cunning animal whose hiding-places are surrounded by swift-advancing flame.
—George Eliot

Quivered like a harp of which the strings are ready to spring.
—Gustave Flaubert

Quivers as if it were nipped with frost.
—Kalidasa

Quivered … as a breakwater-pile quivers to the rush of landward-racing seas.
—Rudyard Kipling

Quivering like a man’s hand when he raises it to say good-bye.
—Rudyard Kipling

Quivered like a willow wand.
—Joaquin Miller

Quivered like forest-leaves.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Quiver …
Like weeds unfolding in the ocean.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Quivering as when life is hard on death.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Quiver,
Like jewels in the river.
—Theodore Tilton