quivered

quivered

1. simple past tense and past participle of quiver

quivered (not comparable)

1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver for arrows.
   • John Milton

     'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity:
     She that has that is clad in complete steel,
     And, like a quivered nymph with arrows keen,
     May trace huge forests, and unharboured heaths […]

2. Sheathed, as in a quiver.
   • Alexander Pope

     This, this the saving doctrine, preached to all,
     From low St. James's up to high St. Paul;
     From him whose quills stand quivered at his ear,
     To him who notches sticks at Westminster.

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