Literary notes about Quiver (AI summary)
The term "quiver" in literature demonstrates a remarkable duality. On one hand, it is used in its traditional sense as a container for arrows, emblematic of martial valor and destiny in epic narratives [1, 2, 3, 4]. On the other hand, authors harness its metaphorical potential to depict trembling—whether the shake of a voice, the flutter of a lip, or the subtle movement of nature itself [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. Beyond physical manifestations, the word often conveys deep emotional undercurrents or the dynamic interplay between strength and frailty, as seen when a character's inner turmoil causes a bodily quiver or when landscapes literally seem to tremble under the force of events [10, 11, 12].
- This bow to thee, this quiver I bequeath, This chosen arrow, to revenge her death:
— from The Aeneid by Virgil - Departing he gave me an adorned quiver and Lycian arrows, a scarf inwoven with gold, and a pair of golden bits that now my Pallas possesses.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil - Bare were her knees, and knots her garments bind; Loose was her hair, and wanton’d in the wind; Her hand sustain’d a bow; her quiver hung behind.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil - Like her, she bears a quiver full of arrows, and a bow which she handles with consummate skill.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. Guerber - I comfort myself with that," said Amy with a little quiver in her voice.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - "You can't know how hard it is for me to give up Meg," she continued with a little quiver in her voice.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - “Oh, Mrs. Lynde, I am so extremely sorry,” she said with a quiver in her voice.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery - Thus did the rain patter and the leaves quiver again and again, the live-long day in my consciousness.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore - The flower seemed to quiver, and then swayed gently to and fro.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - But he kept shaking the black ship every way and make the timbers quiver.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod - But Heracles by the might of his arms pulled the weary rowers along all together, and made the strong-knit timbers of the ship to quiver.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius - Then he sat up in his little bed suddenly very alert, with his heart beating very fast, and a quiver in his body from top to toe.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. Wells
