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He quivered; he shivered
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I am trying to get the real distinction between "to quiver" and "to shiver", both being to me variations of "to shake" ... When would you use one and not the other?
He shivered; he quivered. All his vanity, all his satisfaction in his own splendour, riding fell as a thunderbolt, fierce as a hawk at the head of his men through the valley of death, had been shattered, destroyed. Stormed at by shot and shell, boldly we rode and well, flashed through the valley of death, volleyed and thundered straight into Lily Briscoe and William Bankes. He quivered; he shivered.
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf (part1)
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91t/part1.html
Or are they in fact synonyms and Ms. Woolf is using a rhyming repetition to intensify the effect?
Thank you very much,
Marius Hancu
I am trying to get the real distinction between "to quiver" and "to shiver", both being to me variations of "to shake" ... When would you use one and not the other?
He shivered; he quivered. All his vanity, all his satisfaction in his own splendour, riding fell as a thunderbolt, fierce as a hawk at the head of his men through the valley of death, had been shattered, destroyed. Stormed at by shot and shell, boldly we rode and well, flashed through the valley of death, volleyed and thundered straight into Lily Briscoe and William Bankes. He quivered; he shivered.
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf (part1)
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91t/part1.html
Or are they in fact synonyms and Ms. Woolf is using a rhyming repetition to intensify the effect?
Thank you very much,
Marius Hancu
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I am trying to get the real distinction between "to quiver" and "to shiver", both being to me variations of "to shake" ... When would you use one and not the other? He shivered; he quivered.
- I am trying to get the real distinction between "to quiver" and "to shiver", both being to me variations of "to shake" ...
- When would you use one and not the other?
- He shivered; he quivered.
- All his vanity, all his satisfaction in his own splendour, riding fell as a thunderbolt, fierce as a hawk at the head of his men through the valley of death, had been shattered, destroyed.
- Stormed at by shot and shell, boldly we rode and well, flashed through the valley of death, volleyed and thundered straight into Lily Briscoe and William Bankes.
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I am trying to get the real distinction between "to quiver" and "to shiver", both being to me variations of "to shake" ... When would you use one and not the other?
He shivered; he quivered. All his vanity, all his satisfaction in his own splendour, riding fell as a thunderbolt, fierce as a hawk at the head of his men through the valley of death, had been shattered, destroyed. Stormed at
He shivered; he quivered. All his vanity, all his satisfaction in his own splendour, riding fell as a thunderbolt, fierce as a hawk at the head of his men through the valley of death, had been shattered, destroyed. Stormed at
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[nq:1]Hello: I am trying to get the real distinction between "to quiver" and "to shiver", both being to me variations ... http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91t/part1.html Or are they in fact synonyms and Ms. Woolf is using a rhyming repetition to intensify the eff
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[nq:2]Hello: I am trying to get the real distinction between ... Woolf is using a rhyming repetition to intensify the effect?[/nq]
[nq:1]They're pretty much the same thing, though certain phrases seem to call for one rather than the other. I would shiver with cold rather than quiver. I would quiver with indignation rather than shiver. Obviously, I wouldn't quiver anyone's timbers (Hi Ross).[/n
[nq:1]They're pretty much the same thing, though certain phrases seem to call for one rather than the other. I would shiver with cold rather than quiver. I would quiver with indignation rather than shiver. Obviously, I wouldn't quiver anyone's timbers (Hi Ross).[/n
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[nq:1]They're pretty much the same thing, though certain phrases seem to call for one rather than the other. I would shiver with cold rather than quiver. I would quiver with indignation rather than shiver. Obviously, I wouldn't quiver anyone's timbers (Hi Ross).[/nq]
Much more fun to quiver with anticipation. My spaniel quivers a great deal, but is seldom indignant.
Much more fun to quiver with anticipation. My spaniel quivers a great deal, but is seldom indignant.
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[nq:1]I am trying to get the real distinction between "to quiver" and "to shiver", both being to me variations of ... to quiver if you can see it move; and be said to shiver if it looks in place but fuzzy.[/nq]
We shiver and shake, but quiver and quake. I know that does not help.
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/
We shiver and shake, but quiver and quake. I know that does not help.
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/
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[nq:2]They're pretty much the same thing, though certain phrases seem ... than shiver. Obviously, I wouldn't quiver anyone's timbers (Hi Ross).[/nq]
[nq:1]Much more fun to quiver with anticipation. My spaniel quivers a great deal, but is seldom indignant."She sighed, she cried, she **** near died"[/nq]
or something like that from the Foggy,Foggy Dew.
[nq:1]Much more fun to quiver with anticipation. My spaniel quivers a great deal, but is seldom indignant."She sighed, she cried, she **** near died"[/nq]
or something like that from the Foggy,Foggy Dew.
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[nq:2]I am trying to get the real distinction between "to ... said to shiver if it looks in place but fuzzy.[/nq]
[nq:1]We shiver and shake, but quiver and quake. I know that does not help.[/nq]
Shake and shiver in the light, my love
Share that light with me
Shake and shiver in the light, my love
Like a leaf upon a tree
John Dean
Oxford
[nq:1]We shiver and shake, but quiver and quake. I know that does not help.[/nq]
Shake and shiver in the light, my love
Share that light with me
Shake and shiver in the light, my love
Like a leaf upon a tree
John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:2]They're pretty much the same thing, though certain phrases seem ... than shiver. Obviously, I wouldn't quiver anyone's timbers (Hi Ross).[/nq]
[nq:1]Much more fun to quiver with anticipation. My spaniel quivers a great deal, but is seldom indignant.[/nq]
I don't know about the others, Coop, but I appreciated your contribution to the discussion of the literature of Virginia Woolf. Sho
[nq:1]Much more fun to quiver with anticipation. My spaniel quivers a great deal, but is seldom indignant.[/nq]
I don't know about the others, Coop, but I appreciated your contribution to the discussion of the literature of Virginia Woolf. Sho
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[nq:1]I am trying to get the real distinction between "to quiver" and "to shiver", both being to me variations of "to shake" ... When would you use one and not the other?[/nq]
My own intuition is that quivering is a motion imparted to a body by some external force; shivering is a motion that a body imparts to itself.
[nq:1] He shivered; he quivered. All his vanity, all his satisfaction in
My own intuition is that quivering is a motion imparted to a body by some external force; shivering is a motion that a body imparts to itself.
[nq:1] He shivered; he quivered. All his vanity, all his satisfaction in
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