All 5 Uses
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Obasan
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- The coulee is so still right now that if a match were to be lit, the flame would not waver.†
Chpt 1 *
- While we stood there in Slocan, we could hear the wavering hoot of a train whistle as we used to years before.†
Chpt 16wavering = moving back and forth; or being unsure or weak
- Then, as through a wavering tunnel, there is something pulling me along, through the water, slow as a courtly dance.†
Chpt 21
- From time to time over the days and weeks of our departures I hear the wavering sound of music from a loudspeaker in town, reaching us in wails and echoes, as Guy Lombardo sings over Slocan.†
Chpt 26
- It's standing in the field and staring out at the heat waves that waver and shimmer like see-through curtains over the brown clods and over the tiny distant bodies of Stephen and Uncle and Obasan miles away across the field day after day and not even wondering how this has come about.†
Chpt 29
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)