She also suffered by having to play to a Faust milked of his poetry, and self-smitten with a _tremolo_ which, as I said before, is the voice of palsy, and is not, nor ever was, nor ever will be, the voice of passion. Bless your heart, passion is a manly thing, a womanly thing, a grand thing, not a feeble, quavering, palsied, anile, senile thing. Learn that, ye trembling, quavering idiots of song!英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
A CHANGE flashed over Coleman as if it had come from an electric storage. He had known the professor long, but he had never before heard a quaver in his voice, and it was this little quaver that seemed to impel him to supreme disregard of the dangers which he looked upon as being the final dangers. His own voice had not quavered.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
FIRST PAGE (ironically): You know then, Sir, to distinguish between semi-quavers and demi-semi- quavers?英文原著 · 《Cyrano de Bergerac》
"Never saw I such a brat among all I have brought into the world," old Posset quavered. "She hath the voice of a six-months boy. It cracks my very ears. Hush thee, then, thou little wild cat."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"Think ye he will not come back, gentlemen?" quavered his landlady. "God knows when I have seen a guinea of his money--but he was such a handsome, fine young nobleman, and had such a way with a poor body, and ever a smile and a chuck o' the chin for my Jenny."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"The tenor is a quavering stick. He is one of those who think that an unmanly trembling of the voice represents every manly passion."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Crotchet G, pause for a quaver, repeat G quaver, then E-flat on the down beat.电影 · 《Cloud Atlas (2012)》