quivered
English
Verb
quivered
- simple past tense and past participle of quiver
Adjective
quivered (not comparable)
- Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver for arrows.
- John Milton
- 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity:
She that has that is clad in complete steel,
And, like a quivered nymph with arrows keen,
May trace huge forests, and unharboured heaths […]
- 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity:
- John Milton
- Sheathed, as in a quiver.
- Alexander Pope
- This, this the saving doctrine, preached to all,
From low St. James's up to high St. Paul;
From him whose quills stand quivered at his ear,
To him who notches sticks at Westminster.
- This, this the saving doctrine, preached to all,
- Alexander Pope
Synonyms
- bequivered