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"Quiver" in a Sentence (18 examples)
In mathematics, a quiver is a directed graph.
When he was about to shoot the thirtieth arrow, the archer realised that his quiver was empty.
The quiver was red.
This could make any girl quiver.
Where is my quiver?
I fancy those arrows did not come from your quiver. Who told you how to answer so cleverly?
‘Often, it’s said, her sisters would tell her “Salmacis, take up the hunting-spear or the painted quiver and vary your idleness with some hard work, hunting!” But she takes up neither the hunting spear nor the painted quiver, and will not vary her idleness with the hardship of hunting.
"Ho, Sirs!" she hails them, "saw ye here astray / ought of my sisters, girt in huntress wise / with quiver and a spotted lynx-skin gay, / or following on the foaming boar with cries?"
"Nay, nay, to no such honour I aspire." / Said Venus, "But a simple maid am I, / and 'tis the manner of the maids of Tyre / to wear, like me, the quiver, and to tie / the purple buskin round the ankles high."
Such as Diana, with her Oreads seen / on swift Eurotas' banks or Cynthus' crest, / leading the dances. She, in form and mien, / armed with her quiver, towers above the rest, / and tranquil pleasure thrills Latona's silent breast.
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Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.
He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.
[...] there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in.
The birds chaunt melodie on euerie buſh, The ſnakes^([sic – meaning ſnake]) lies rolled in the chearefull ſunne, The greene leaues quiuer with the cooling winde, And make a checkerd ſhadow on the ground: [...]
And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.
Next moment with a rapid, nameless impulse, in a superb lofty arch the bright steel spans the foaming distance, and quivers in the life spot of the whale.
And the moonlight on the Church seemed to shift and quiver—some pigeons perhaps had been disturbed up there.
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