Crossword-Solution: QUAVER 6 letters, 35 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

His voice and laugh, which perpetually re-echoed through the Custom-House, had nothing of the tremulous quaver and cackle of an old man’s utterance; they came strutting out of his lungs, like the crow of a cock, or the blast of a clarion.

When the lights went out and the violins began to quaver their long D against the rude figure of the basses, Mrs.

Helplessly, and with a little quaver in her voice, she repeated obstinately: “I was making some tea, and I thought you would like to have a cup of tea.” Her agitation betrayed itself in the repetition of the word.

Hudson’s voice had begun to quaver softly, and her face, which had no capacity for the expression of superior wisdom, to look as humbly appealing as before.

Therefore I was all the more surprised when she added, with her soft, venerable quaver, “You may have as many rooms as you like--if you will pay a good deal of money.” I hesitated but for a single instant, long enough to ask myself what she meant in particular by this condition.