quaveringly

Sandy asked quaveringly, and then added, "By the same man who knocked you out?"

B. J. called quaveringly to an astounded lobby guard who started our way.

"No." She grabbed the gun from her father and pointed it quaveringly at Adam.

"Father," he began quaveringly, "I swear to you we did not hunt the doe.

The mantel was fringed with gummed notes, each one featuring a single letter, quaveringly shaped.

"Abner," said the old man quaveringly, and Abner saw for the first time how very old he was.

Finally, she spoke quaveringly.

Over raindrop piano clusters, he quaveringly confesses, "Oh, I'm scared of the middle place/between light - and nowhere."

"Oh, I say," said Sidney, quaveringly.

'I am,' I replied quaveringly.

"Bill . . ." Bascom's voice was quaveringly servile.

"He's dead," Lotta said quaveringly, shocked.

'Lucenzo!' she called quaveringly.

The Pete Garden simulacrum quivered, vibrated, and then, from the head-to-foot rent, something tentative popped quaveringly.

"My name," the voice called up quaveringly, "is Harold Newkom, and I'm a war vet; I get preference.

The high priest grinned lasciviously and did it again, more slowly, and this time her wail of misery rose quaveringly above the throb of the drums.

It was Margery who at last came down to enquire quaveringly through the closed door who was without, and what was the matter at this time of night.

Just listen to Ms. Payton-Wright say with supreme cool: "Nothing has definitely been proved about anything" or quaveringly pronounce trance - in three syllables.

In the minarets, the muezzins called the followers of Mohammed to prayer; in the evenings particularly, they emitted sounds that floated quaveringly eerie over the suddenly quiet thoroughfares.

"Bret," she said quaveringly, her Southern accent in full sway, "if you ever believed anything I ever told you, believe this ... it was not I who took your money."

If "Mumford" were a 40's movie, you could imagine Skip being played by the gangly young James Stewart with every other phrase out of his mouth a quaveringly sincere "gosh" or "aw shucks."

The spectacle of Arafat baring his human side for Montel can hardly seem far-fetched when even the President of the United States governs by the maxim "Speak quaveringly and carry a big hand-held mike."

But each time he tried to put his foot down and absolutely refuse one of her whims, her eyes would fill with tears, her lip would tremble, and the fatal, "You don't love me any more," would drop quaveringly upon him.

"Maybe I could be nice to you," she said quaveringly, trying hard to slip back into the role of the sexpot, the teaser, the fun girl, the party image she had sanded and buffed and polished until it was smooth, comfortable, and splinter-free.