Verb (used without object) : He stood there quavering with fear. ,Her voice quavered a moment and then she regained control.    From Dictionary.com. 

Even in his crotchets and quavers he was charming.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

Middlesex.engravings diver retried spooning quavers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s it to you?] Reference

"You see a way out?" quavers he, clutching at me again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]

Swift rally round the Master who quavers not nor quakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 28, 1891] Reference

The judge straightens his back and his baritone quavers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zebratown] Reference

Around me, the night quavers; behind me, the ocean moans.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2007 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

"More weird metrics for Elizabeth Warren," her headline quavers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard (RJ) Eskow: Elizabeth Warren and Her Discontents] Reference

Your voice quavers over the loudspeaker, “Pump 9, can you pull forward?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assumption] Reference

Matt's voice quavers slightly but I doubt that his news will counterbalance mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Fox Rampant] Reference

Wild quavers adorned the tune obscenely; the mob marched to it, falling into step.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference

His voice quavers: "The experienced fliers in the cabin know we're not in Los Angeles ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Part II: No one was sure if hijackers were on board] Reference

Fyntal's voice quavers almost imperceptibly, and he coughs softly and starts up the stairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Engineer]

Wilkins quavered (he quavers for the same reason he totters), "I hope it is not bad news, madam.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mummy Case]

It tended to have jerks and quavers in it, in time with the abrupt proud ­hen noises of the Geiger counter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]

In the illustrations the barrel is shown to be divided into bars, and each bar into eight beats for the quavers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

His back quavers as he kicks up his legs and steps up the tree trunk as he hangs by his arms from the wet branch.    From Wordnik.com.  [A fog] Reference

Villiers remarks to the orchestra, "Instead of playing two short quavers, please play the crotchet in three time.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

His voice quavers to order, and if I should see tears on his face I should think he had pumped them up someway for effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Soprano] Reference

George performed ever so many trills and quavers upon his harpsichord, and their guest watched him, wondering, perhaps, that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

Yes, looks amazing at first glance - but don't you think those quavers on the volume knob are a little... country & western?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great looking studio remote returns] Reference

And again when the old stepmother at Bath takes up her pen and quavers out a few uncomposed and unliterary sentences we see him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of the Moth, and other essays] Reference

The voice quavers, just a few words breathed with excruciating effort, audible over loudspeakers, but only barely comprehensible.    From Wordnik.com.  ['PRECIOUS' SUFFERING] Reference

The jocular expression of an approaching dangerous social situation is often conveyed by its ominous low-pitched glissando quavers.    From Wordnik.com.  [On new branches of applied linguistics] Reference

From listening to him talk, he seems methodical (if a little nervous on camera, with quite a few voice quavers, but that's understandable).    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellany For Breakfast!] Reference

And then came floating from the roof in various quavers and semiquavers and grace-notes the following, which is all Father Letheby can remember.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

Notes of shorter duration than the crotchet, i.e., quavers, triplets, etc., are expressed also by steps which become quicker in proportion to their frequency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze] Reference

Your handwriting, usually so firm and easy, quavers a little, and exhibits more of the influence of the biceps muscle than of your accustomed light play of the wrist and fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Should I fling your polyphones, plaints, and quavers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses] Reference

And he began the soft repetition of chord-quavers with which it opened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael] Reference

"Can't I fetch St. John's -- not even with this breeze?" the voice quavers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Actions and Reactions] Reference

They're for seeing ghosts and gaping their jaws; all for the quavers instead of the capers. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference

The number of quavers would, of course, be the same in each bar; but the rhythm would be different.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties] Reference

The old man must be seventy-five, if he's a day, and his voice quavers so that it makes the boys laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia] Reference

If I keep my hand on the piano-case, I detect tiny quavers, returns of melody, and the hush that follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World I Live In] Reference

Yea, now, said the dame, smiling somewhat sadly; now do I see the water standing in thine eyes, and thy voice quavers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

From minims to crotchets, and from crotchets to quavers it flowed, and Mac, running with it, gurgled with a new refrain at the quavers.    From Wordnik.com.  [We of the Never-Never] Reference