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  • After wavering for a moment, Monica's mom closed the door and disappeared.†   (source)
  • Then he pointed to the top of the fire, where the snapping yellow flames dissolved into an invisible shimmery heat that made the desert beyond seem to waver, like a mirage.†   (source)
  • His father stood with his hand in the air, a wavering smile on his face.†   (source)
  • But she did not speak directly of what the Wallaces had done to the Berrys for, as she explained later, that was something that wavered between the known and the unknown and to mention it outright to anyone outside of those with whom you were closest was not wise.†   (source)
  • For, on the old beamed ceiling of the parlor, streaks of light swam and danced and wavered like a bright mirage, reflected through the windows from the sunlit surface of the pond.†   (source)
  • How far away I must have seemed — a distant, wavering pink blob.†   (source)
  • Fumes wavered toward the ground.†   (source)
  • I can feel tears coming on so close that if I break concentration even for a second, if I waver, I will cry and that will make everything worse, if such a thing is possible.†   (source)
  • "I'm warning you, grandma, put it down!" screeched Paul, his voice wavering.†   (source)
  • He seemed to waver.†   (source)
  • His gaze did not waver.†   (source)
  • Her voice wavered slightly as she spoke.†   (source)
  • Glimmers of an eerie light shone through the window; it cast a wavering spectrum of colors on Newt's body and face, as if he stood next to a lighted swimming pool.†   (source)
  • The hyena responded with a whine, a wavering, high-pitched whine, a sure sign that trouble was on the way.†   (source)
  • During Mom's entire pregnancy, however, my parents' attention to me never wavered, even though, yeah, I worried that it would.†   (source)
  • He prayed for deliverance, and even in those dark days, his trust in God and The Way never wavered.†   (source)
  • A lot of uglies had seen the burning message on the night of the escape, or had heard about it, and the nightly pilgrimages out to the ruins slowly increased, until sparklers wavered atop high buildings from midnight until dawn.†   (source)
  • Wormtail, I need somebody with brains, somebody whose loyalty has never wavered, and you, unfortunately, fulfill neither requirement.†   (source)
  • The gun barrel did not waver.†   (source)
  • I touch a wavering hand to my forehead.†   (source)
  • It came toward me, wavering over the pebbled driveway.†   (source)
  • He had abandoned his tenor and was singing in a wavering falsetto.†   (source)
  • As she spoke the great white body began to waver, the wings to disolve into mist.†   (source)
  • Luke's smile wavered.†   (source)
  • " Missus Whitworth's smile does not waver, but the slightest bit of pink rises in her cheeks.†   (source)
  • IAN MALCOM Search Gennaro sat in the Jeep and listened to the buzzing of the flies, and stared at the distant palm trees wavering in the heat.†   (source)
  • As the dismantling proceeded, it still felt like a fantasy to me, but my father's faith in Schindler never wavered.†   (source)
  • Pete was a hearty waver.†   (source)
  • The Girl's face hardens—but behind that I can see something waver, if only for a moment, and she looks like the girl I'd met on the streets.†   (source)
  • The impassive father seemed to me to be the most disagreeably affected by Owen's unnatural size; the man's doughy countenance wavered between brute stupidity and contempt.†   (source)
  • A single lightbulb casts everything in a wavering shadow.†   (source)
  • I'm wavering between throwing the monitor across the room and kicking Dr. Pam until she's dead.†   (source)
  • "Who is it!" he demanded, leaning out from the bed so that the light fell waveringly on his face.†   (source)
  • Not every child is so purposeful and malign, so consistent over time, never wavering, never doubted.†   (source)
  • The wavering converts drew inspiration and confidence from his unshakable faith.†   (source)
  • Having entered the Continuum, Alyss glanced back to see the wavering image of her mother growing progressively smaller among the brilliant, crystalline surfaces along which she and Hatter traveled.†   (source)
  • His eyes waver, reluctant to hold his gaze, but Maven stares right back.†   (source)
  • In my mind I had wavered between the bittersweet joy of seeing my mother name all the things I carried and loved and her futile hope that these things mattered.†   (source)
  • He continued, his voice wavering but loud enough now that everyone could hear—"Blackly he reposes, tender face the color of soot, withered limbs like veins of coal, feet lumps of driftwood hung with shriveled grapes"—and finally I recognized the poem.†   (source)
  • Kit wavered.†   (source)
  • My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.†   (source)
  • I waver, unable to process this turn in events.†   (source)
  • She listened to his wavering breath and this time, it was his eyes dropping to her lips.†   (source)
  • The trickle of smoke sketched a chalky line up the solid blue of the sky, wavered high up and faded.†   (source)
  • There was a good breeze coming in from the direction of the cane fields, and it wavered the flag on the pole in the yard.†   (source)
  • ! knew then we would always be together, even though I wavered the following day.†   (source)
  • In the dim, wavering light, a page hung open and it was like a snowy feather, the words delicately painted thereon.†   (source)
  • At the top of the cliff the globe wavered for a moment, tipped onto a railed ramp, rolled down it to a small concave platform and riddled to a halt.†   (source)
  • I have only one hope: that this anti-Semitism is just a passing thing, that the Dutch will show their true colors, that they'll never waver from what they know in their hearts to be just, for this is unjust!†   (source)
  • It was a high-pitched, wavering wail, a hopeless and lost sound, as strange and as eerie as Curdled Cave itself.†   (source)
  • For a second he seems to waver, and I'm sure he's going to let me go, but then he passes my ID to another regulator.†   (source)
  • And that look never wavered.†   (source)
  • The sound of the engines wavered, and the plane tilted, then straightened.†   (source)
  • "Would you do something for me?" he asked, looking at the wavering tip of his cigarette.†   (source)
  • All we saw was her wavering as though she were trying to balance herself—and then her tray went flying, spilling chili all over two of the boys.†   (source)
  • "It's still light," I'd suggest, my voice wavering, as my siblings gathered behind her to watch the impending slaughter.†   (source)
  • Joseph Kasavubu wavered between boycotting and trying to run the show.†   (source)
  • In their dark clothing they looked strangely thin and insubstantial, wavering there on the beach like heat mirages.†   (source)
  • The vegetation seems to waver beneath gusts of wind that I can somehow feel.†   (source)
  • Our shadows wavered on the walls and ceiling.†   (source)
  • He seemed to be wavering, torn by some internal dilemma.†   (source)
  • And the brutal regime of fitness never wavered.†   (source)
  • In some of these scenarios, he was angry with me, or so nice that I felt my strength wavering, if only slightly.†   (source)
  • It was as if he had eyes of a different kind—fish eyes that showed everything clear and delicate and wavering in the bright water.†   (source)
  • Headlights appeared at the far end of the long street, wavering over the snow.†   (source)
  • Her voice was high and wavered uncertainly as she spoke.†   (source)
  • He wavered for a moment then forced the gate open.†   (source)
  • Somehow she thought that he might be wavering.†   (source)
  • It's not steady, it wavers up and down, staying pretty low, like Roadkill fooling around with his electric bass.†   (source)
  • Jace wavered, temptation plain on his face.†   (source)
  • Mack looked up and tried to meet her gaze, but found that when he looked directly at her, his thinking wavered.†   (source)
  • "I went to Witney," I said, trying to keep the waver out of my voice.†   (source)
  • I had worried about my voice wavering, so I overcorrected and the words came out clipped, like I was reading a stock report.†   (source)
  • For a brief moment, Glass wavered.†   (source)
  • And Paul had been caught more by her tone — singsong and wavering — than by her words.†   (source)
  • Fortunately both Long and I were used to working under pressure, and we stayed at it, not letting our attention waver.†   (source)
  • Colton's gaze didn't waver.†   (source)
  • IT WASN'T LONG AFTER THAT I made my decision, and once I'd made it, I never wavered.†   (source)
  • He glared without wavering at the wife of the accused man, and she glared at him in return.†   (source)
  • I didn't realize Lenny's place had been air-conditioned until I wavered out onto the pavement.†   (source)
  • She thought maybe he had in the end been wavering about leaving their city, and she thought maybe she could have tipped him either way, and she thought he was basically a good and decent man, and she was filled with compassion for him in that instant, as she observed his face with its gaze upon the rain, and she realized she had not in her life felt so strongly for anyone in the world as she had for Saeed in the moments of those first months when she had felt most strongly for him.†   (source)
  • The air wavered a moment.†   (source)
  • She hung in the vacuum of that lifeless morning for only a few seconds, then wavered and tumbled.†   (source)
  • Farmer wavered briefly.†   (source)
  • Afternoons I would see her coming from blocks away, heading home, her tiny figure warped by heat waves and that bonnet a yellow flower wavering in the glare.†   (source)
  • The geese flew south in long, wavering V's.†   (source)
  • He never tired, never wavered, neither ate nor slept.†   (source)
  • I couldn't keep the waver out of my voice.†   (source)
  • This year, as forehanded as ever, he'd been wavering between the imported perfumes on sale at Norris Drugs and a pair of riding boots.†   (source)
  • I spent several hours in the bedroom with Mahtob, crying, fighting off nausea, wavering between anger and paralysis.†   (source)
  • It was pouring down rain, all of Paris was wavering and gray.†   (source)
  • Though I suspect my mother did not understand all that was going on, her support never wavered.†   (source)
  • There was an ungodly collision of brass, reed, and percussion--trombones and piccolos skidded into cacophony, a tuba farted, and the hollow clang of a cymbal wavered out of the big top, over our heads and into oblivion.†   (source)
  • Somehow She Didn't Notice the wavering tone of my 'Hi, Mom.'†   (source)
  • Her voice is so sincere that for a moment, I waver.†   (source)
  • She stared at him, and her hand wavered over the pad a second, but then she turned and walked into the Nurses' Station, sticking the pad and pencil back down in the pocket of her uniform.†   (source)
  • But soon a wavering heat rose up, a curl of smoke.†   (source)
  • For a moment Hazel could hear nothing Then he caught a distant but clear sound—a kind of wailing or crying, wavering and intermittent.†   (source)
  • The little brass lamp in her hand made a pitiful wavering.†   (source)
  • His determination never wavered, yet in those years few could have foreseen that he would become president of Mexico.†   (source)
  • Every morning the light in the cell changed from the wavering orange of the lamp in the sconce outside my door to the dim but even glow of the sun falling into the prison's central courtyard.†   (source)
  • Jones was the sort who categorized his tapes by their flaws, a ragged piano tempo, a botched flute, a wavering French horn.†   (source)
  • He was wavering in his mind whether to stay or go.†   (source)
  • The bicycle boy bends and pumps and the picture wavers briefly but then springs back to the round announcer's face and the moving lines of prices.†   (source)
  • She wavered, talked it over with her family, and ultimately agreed to go back in the hope of rescuing her girlfriends.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Nightwing's smile wavers a bit.†   (source)
  • Even so, I was surprised that I was wavering after spending only six weeks there.†   (source)
  • His eyes paled and wavered.†   (source)
  • You must be"—she pauses, her smile wavers just a little, and I know this is where it clicks because she's all sorts of aware when she looks back up at me and says—"I am so sorry.†   (source)
  • But caution is one thing and wavering is another.†   (source)
  • The Shadow-Born clutched its prize to its chest, and as they watched, the shadow of the faun wavered and disappeared, and the substance of the Shadow-Born seemed to grow darker.†   (source)
  • The coulee is so still right now that if a match were to be lit, the flame would not waver.†   (source)
  • I could feel the heat from his body, and I thought he could feel the wavering resolve in mine.†   (source)
  • No, but I do know that he never wavered in his conviction for a second.†   (source)
  • They remained silent as she wavered between sleep, nausea, anxiety, and the pain that was beginning to grip her womb, and he fervently wished that this night would never end.†   (source)
  • A lesser man might have wavered that day in the hospital corridor, a weaker man might have compromised on such excellent substitutes as Drum Major, Minor Major, Sergeant Major, or C. Sharp Major, but Major Major's father had waited fourteen years for just such an opportunity, and he was not a person to waste it.†   (source)
  • His hand wavered as I grabbed the keys.†   (source)
  • Gilliam says, his voice wavering as he glances out toward the Bluebird's headlights.†   (source)
  • His voice, usually so strong, wavered as he read, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help."†   (source)
  • The tower wavered, but remained standing.†   (source)
  • From where I sat, it was hard to read their expression, but they never wavered for a second.†   (source)
  • How had he come to make such a sudden decision when for nearly a fortnight he had wavered so much that he could not even bring himself to send a postcard asking her how she was?†   (source)
  • But love reached its apogee when Sister Mary Joseph Praise came to work alongside him in Ethiopia, and then it had never wavered.†   (source)
  • Torchlight cast a wavering yellow glow over the leather spines.†   (source)
  • Little League rules had never specifically mentioned integration, but to its credit, the organization never wavered from its inclusive policies.†   (source)
  • Her gun hadn't wavered.†   (source)
  • I was like a drunken man myself, wavering about on weakened legs.†   (source)
  • There was, she noted, the slightest waver in the video, as if he'd jostled the camera.†   (source)
  • The old Frenchman lurched toward it, his legs unsteady, his weapon wavering in his right hand.†   (source)
  • The low-ceilinged sea-green room wavers with the flames and incense of a hundred candles.†   (source)
  • It was only when I came to the end of the path and sat down upon a giant stump of driftwood and stared at the sickly winter moon waveringly reflected on the black water that I realized how cold I was and began to cry.†   (source)
  • For days Arianne wavered as she composed her secret letter.†   (source)
  • I —' she hesitated, wavering.†   (source)
  • And time passes and our whispers change and waver and become like weird singing that comes out of us but that's somehow not part of us but is part of the night, the air, the moonshine, and the words in the singing are no longer like words but are just sounds drawn from somewhere deep inside ourselves, like creatures' cries, like complicated birdsong, nighttime-bird song.†   (source)
  • Her crooked, panting grin wavered as he came closer.†   (source)
  • My dad in uniform, that's what I kept seeing, his eyes wavering between confidence and panic.†   (source)
  • She wavered, because Lee Harvey Oswald had once been the love of her life.†   (source)
  • The shadow lay still for a moment, wavered, and grew longer again as he came back.†   (source)
  • There in the wavering light, I couldn't get a true bead on the wolf.†   (source)
  • Unsteadiness caused his shadow to waver slightly as it stretched across the anchor.†   (source)
  • Already, the thought that the traditional thinkers might be right, after all, and I wrong, has made me waver.†   (source)
  • Though the wide paths in the garden of the Villa Medici were lit by wavering torches, the fountain was illuminated by half a dozen electric lights.†   (source)
  • Yet the owl was strangely agitated, and its hunter's concentration wavered at the last moment.†   (source)
  • He saw a line of white smoke erupt, the gray troops waver and move back this way, stop, rifles begin to fall, men begin to run to the right, trying to get away.†   (source)
  • I put my hand on her back to try to get her to stop crying, to be that solid, never wavering person I was used to.†   (source)
  • But so breathtaking were the streets that late afternoon, with their sentinel trees and tender gardens, that the sun itself seemed to waver, unsetting, reluctant to leave; it was the onlooker whose presence weighted everything.†   (source)
  • My soul had been like a wavering compass needle, but now it finally pointed to true north.†   (source)
  • All four reach the top, see something they don't like, waver, run for their lives downstage: HAMLET, in the lead, leaps into the left barrel.†   (source)
  • Then the Sidewinder seemed to waver in its course.†   (source)
  • A wavering figure coming up the slope, keeping carefully to the palm-trees' shade in defiance of the rule of the road, attracted her eye.†   (source)
  • After a half hour in front of her vanity mirror drawing and having to redraw dark lines along her eyelids that each time went ragged or wavered violently before she could take the brush away.†   (source)
  • This last was a rising, wavering wail—a spine-chilling sound that mingled fury with lamentation in a way that seemed almost liturgical, like the keening of a maddened rabbi.†   (source)
  • ANNIE [WAVERING]: She—never shows me she needs it, she won't have any—caressing or—†   (source)
  • The whistle was almost too far away to be heard, its sound wavering back from the engine over the roofs of the cars.†   (source)
  • He tried to find a star that he could guide by, and the stars wavered in the sky.†   (source)
  • It was about a quarter mile to the south, outside the "wall," perhaps twenty fathoms down, what was left of it, and eerie, as such things always are, in the wavering beams we extended.†   (source)
  • And in the far distance, pools of silver; pools of glinting, shimmering light; pools which shivered and wavered and contracted, and seemed to hang a fraction above the horizon.†   (source)
  • He felt Abra's certainty wavering and he knew that he could prod it further.†   (source)
  • Siddhartha wavered to the side, as he tried to walk.†   (source)
  • The lamplight wavered on the water bucket and Papa's shaving mirror, and went still.†   (source)
  • Even the sugar curtains were evil, a senselessly fumbling mouth; and the leaves, wavering, stifled their tree like an infestation.†   (source)
  • Then morning comes, the wavering grey turns to gold, there is a stirring within me as the sleepers awake, and he softly departs.†   (source)
  • Her eyes waver guiltily and she adds in a tone which begins to placate.†   (source)
  • Despite more than forty arrests, physical attacks, and brutal beatings, he has never wavered in his devotion to the philosophy of nonviolence.†   (source)
  • For an instant, Reich wavered on the verge of surrender.†   (source)
  • The "death car" as the newspapers called it, didn't stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment, and then disappeared around the next bend.   (source)
    wavered = moved off of a steady course
  • The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight, and turning my head to watch it, I saw that I was not alone — fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor's mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars.   (source)
    wavered = moved
  • The iron bars wavered; she was about to black out again.†   (source)
  • "That is my father," Vittoria said, her voice wavering.†   (source)
  • She wavered on the edge of the roof and I thought she might fall, or even jump.†   (source)
  • The voice is thin, wavering, watery; but fully present, fully alert.†   (source)
  • As they walked, Dad eyed the gas cells that wavered all around them.†   (source)
  • The Establishment!' said Professor Trelawney, in a deep, dramatic, wavering voice.†   (source)
  • Ahead, I saw a strip mall wavering in the bright distance.†   (source)
  • The beady eyes stared without wavering at Hawat.†   (source)
  • When the flame danced into life, its reflection wavered on their dusty glass and silver.†   (source)
  • They were impassive whenever she wavered, and firmly recalled her to her earliest statements.†   (source)
  • He's indeterminate, he wavers, like a candle flame but devoid of light.†   (source)
  • Two monsters we had fought side by side, and he had not wavered.†   (source)
  • My mind wavered in that gray hazy area I detested.†   (source)
  • He wavered like a candle flame, unable to withstand the tide of evil.†   (source)
  • Her voice wavered as she recounted her horrifying reunion with Peter.†   (source)
  • My bow tilts up at the wavering square, the flaw, the…what did he call it that day?†   (source)
  • For the first time, the animal seemed confused, the glittering eyes wavering in their intensity.†   (source)
  • Water reflections wavering on the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Seen through the plastic her eye was huge and wavering, the eye of a Cyclops.†   (source)
  • She said this without a hint of arrogance on her wavering voice.†   (source)
  • He never turned, never wavered, never slowed down.†   (source)
  • But Mrs. V's voice wavered—I heard it.†   (source)
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