All 6 Uses
waver
in
Winesburg, Ohio - by Sherwood Anderson
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- He had brown curly hair and grey eyes that were at times hard and direct, at times wavering and uncertain.†
Chpt 7wavering = moving back and forth; or being unsure or weak
- It was the indefinable hunger within that made his eyes waver and that kept him always more and more silent before people.†
Chpt 7 *
- At such times Jesse Bentley's eyes did not look straight ahead but wavered and seemed to be looking at nothing.†
Chpt 7wavered = was unsure or weak; or moved back and forth
- "I saw it yesterday and it put me in mind of what I have long wanted to do," he said, and again he looked away over the head of the boy with the wavering, uncertain stare in his eyes.†
Chpt 7wavering = moving back and forth; or being unsure or weak
- Already time had begun a little to color the stone, lending a golden richness to its surface and in the evening or on dark days touching the shaded places beneath the eaves with wavering patches of browns and blacks.†
Chpt 11
- Scratching his grey beard with his long dirty fingers, the merchant looked at his son with the same wavering uncertain stare with which he had confronted the traveling man.†
Chpt 17
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)