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Example sentences for: quiver
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Did Morris have documentation for a snake-like quiver rushing through the crowd, or for its foot-shuffling?
It is no criticism of Solomon's lively and fascinating book that she has not sought to explain how an array of the most ordinary objects--a cordial glass, a bubble pipe, an egg, some glass disks, a map--should release powers of evocation in one another and quiver into an image that overcomes the personal and the biographical to attain universality, profundity, beauty, and truth.
Perhaps it is because I am just one of the “ordinary readers with no special knowledge of the ancient East” [New English Bible, 1970] that I want more than anything else “a quiver in my heart” when I read the 23rd Psalm and confess to being rather shocked to find that “the Lord” is no longer my shepherd.
I miss the translator's search for the quiver and the nightingale!
Perhaps the translation comes from some very important commentator but it hardly creates a “sublime” image and surely does not achieve the quiver mentioned in John Brough's translation of the Sanskrit poem: