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He still kept his teeth together, but severe muscular contractions attacked his body, strange twitchings and jerkings, till he was all a-quiver and writhing in silent torment.

BÂTARD 2010

He turned to The Darling G and I and, bottom lip a-quiver, said:

Archive 2009-01-01 Dungeekin 2009

He turned to The Darling G and I and, bottom lip a-quiver, said:

Dungeekin Minor's Quote of the Month Dungeekin 2009

Meanwhile, his debut album proper, last year's Rain In England, transcended familiar notions of good and bad, being one of the most peculiar rap albums ever pressed: a beatless, Beat poetry-style set where Lil B, voice a-quiver with earnestness, ponders love, beauty and all the bad things in the world over naïf new-age synth washes.

Grab your spatula! Could 'based' Lil B be the next big thing? 2011

Having slaked what the lady novelists would call my base passion, I staggered up and collapsed on the bed, most capitally exhausted, leaving her prone and gasping on the carpet with her little bottom a-quiver, very fetching, and her hat and veil still in place.

THE NUMBERS 2010

Portman would play Elizabeth Bennet who is actually working hard at killing zombies when Mr Darcy arrives on the scene and she goes all a-quiver.

Filmstalker: Stalked: Big casting on The Hobbit, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, UFO, Hereafter 2009

My question for Gloria Steinem (I am all a-quiver just posting said question let alone contemplating the thought that it could get answered) is this:

Ordinary People | Her Bad Mother 2006

I must admit, it set my heart a-quiver for a moment, solely because it was so visually interesting.

Is a Star Trek "Re-Imagining" Overdue? 2006

The boy stood on the burning deck, his heart was all a-quiver.

Ollie was not only haunted by his last two lives, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

So: one sentence into the single worst speech in the history of American politics, in front of what looked like seventeen tired white people in a room, John McCain -- comb-over plastered down, grinning inanely, with his strange collection of jowls and wattles a-quiver at various tempos (a separate flopping-rhythm to every fleshy sac, in a display of trembling facial-jelly unmatched since the heyday of Jesse Helms) -- had:

John Eskow: Seventeen Tired White People In a Room: John McCain Gives the Single Worst Speech In the History of American Politics 2008