All 14 Uses of
waver
in
The House of Mirth
- The white oval of her face swam out waveringly from a background of shadows, the uncertain light blurring it like a haze; but the two lines about the mouth remained.†
Chpt 1.3
- Was it only ten years since she had wavered in imagination between the English earl and the Italian prince?†
Chpt 1.3
- She turned to give him the welcome which such gallantry deserved; but her greeting wavered into a blush of wonder, for the man who had approached her was Lawrence Selden.†
Chpt 1.4
- On the nearer slopes the sugar-maples wavered like pyres of light; lower down was a massing of grey orchards, and here and there the lingering green of an oak-grove.†
Chpt 1.6
- The shock of this retort had the effect of crystallizing Selden's wavering intentions.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- Lily's own view of her wavered between pity for her limitations and impatience at her cheerful acceptance of them.†
Chpt 1.8
- It was he who had wavered and disowned the face of opportunity—and the joy now warming his breast might have been a familiar inmate if he had captured it in its first flight.†
Chpt 1.14
- And was not Dorset, to whom his glance had passed by a natural transition, too jerkily wavering between the same extremes?†
Chpt 2.3
- She held firmly to Mrs. Bry's wavering eye while she gave this explanation, but when it was over Selden saw her send a tentative glance from one to another of the women's faces.†
Chpt 2.3
- She paused again to measure the effect of this announcement on her hearer, but the brush in Miss Bart's lifted hand maintained its unwavering stroke from brow to nape.†
Chpt 2.6
- In its inconvenient brightness Rosedale seemed to waver a moment, as though conscious that every avenue of escape was unpleasantly illuminated.†
Chpt 2.7
- And as he wavered before her, still watching for a break in the impenetrable front she presented: "Don't give me up; I may still do credit to my training!" she affirmed.†
Chpt 2.9
- Her survey of the situation remained calm and unwavering.†
Chpt 2.11
- Her lips wavered into a smile—she had been distracted by the whimsical remembrance of the confidences she had made to him, two years earlier, in that very room.†
Chpt 2.12
Definition:
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(waver) to move back and forth (shake or quiver)
or:
to change, be unsure, or weak