All 4 Uses
waver
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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- Jim began to waver.†
Chpt 2 *
- And when he had finished and still stood alive and whole, their wavering impulse to break their oath and save the poor betrayed prisoner's life faded and vanished away, for plainly this miscreant had sold himself to Satan and it would be fatal to meddle with the property of such a power as that.†
Chpt 11wavering = moving back and forth; or being unsure or weak
- Huck, being uncommitted as yet, joined in with Tom, and the waverer quickly "explained," and was glad to get out of the scrape with as little taint of chicken-hearted homesickness clinging to his garments as he could.†
Chpt 14waverer = someone who moves back and forth; or is unsure or weak
- He wavered, and started to slink away, but Tom seized him and said: "Aunt Polly, it ain't fair.†
Chpt 17wavered = was unsure or weak; or moved back and forth
Definitions:
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(1)
(waver) to move back and forth (shake or quiver)
or:
to change, be unsure, or weak - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)