quavered

Half-way across the glade he stopped short and whirled, catlike, facing back the way he had come, as a long-drawn call quavered out across the forest.

The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

Half-way across the glade he stopped short and whirled, catlike, facing back the way he had come, as a long-drawn call quavered out across the forest.

The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

Halfway across the glade he stopped short and whirled, catlike, facing back the way he had come, as a long-drawn call quavered out across the forest.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

His voice quavered, and his gaze drifted toward the harbor, watching for the flare that the ship would send up.

End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

Despite Richard Keys's pre-sacking mea culpa, in which he quavered that he and Andy Gray had "failed to change while everything was changing around us", football is moving into the last century at a glacial pace.

Having a Football Man at the FA has been one big failure | Marina Hyde 2011

There was a silence, then an elderly woman quavered, “I am.”

Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

"But — but," she quavered, "I — I —" and there was a suggestion of disappointment and tears in her voice.

Amateur Night 2010

He could see him yet, his queer little monkeyish face eloquent with fear, his back burdened with specimen cases, in his hands Bassett's butterfly net and naturalist's shot-gun, as he quavered, in Beche-de-mer English: Me fella too much fright along bush.

THE RED ONE 2010

"I like you, steward, very much," the old man quavered.

CHAPTER XIII 2010

"Me old fella boy too much," the one-legged Methuselah quavered.

CHAPTER 2 2010