All 6 Uses of
waver
in
David Copperfield
- I had a vague sensation of being, as it were, on view, when the maid opened it; and of wavering, somehow, across a hall with a weather-glass in it, into a quiet little drawing-room on the ground-floor, commanding a neat garden.†
Chpt 40-42
- …trustfulness, and affection, out of every hole in the watering-pot; when I think of him never wandering in that better mind of his to which unhappiness addressed itself, never bringing the unfortunate King Charles into the garden, never wavering in his grateful service, never diverted from his knowledge that there was something wrong, or from his wish to set it right— I really feel almost ashamed of having known that he was not quite in his wits, taking account of the utmost I have…†
Chpt 40-42
- I do not hope that any love and duty I may render in return, will ever make me worthy of your priceless confidence; but with all this knowledge fresh upon me, I can lift my eyes to this dear face, revered as a father's, loved as a husband's, sacred to me in my childhood as a friend's, and solemnly declare that in my lightest thought I have never wronged you; never wavered in the love and the fidelity I owe you!'†
Chpt 43-45
- That she would never waver in it, never be diverted from it, never relinquish it, while there was any chance of hope.†
Chpt 46-48 *
- So far as I know — and I believe his honest heart was transparent to me — he never wavered again, in his solemn certainty of finding her.†
Chpt 49-51
- As I walked home to it, after this evening's conversation, reflecting on what had passed between Ham and myself when I was last at Yarmouth, I wavered in the original purpose I had formed, of leaving a letter for Emily when I should take leave of her uncle on board the ship, and thought it would be better to write to her now.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(waver) to move back and forth (shake or quiver)
or:
to change, be unsure, or weak