Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Quiver
Quiver like a fiddle string.
—Anonymous
Quiver like a leaf in the wind.
—Anonymous
Quiver like jelly.
—Anonymous
Tremulous quiver, like an arrow full drawn by the strong.
—Eugene Barry
Quiver, like a weed in water.
—R. D. Blackmore
Quivering … like a vibrant music-string stretched from mountain peak to sky.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Quiver, as if they stood upon the verge of an imminent peril.
—George W. Curtis
Quivers like the tail of swine gladdened by a corn feast.
—Aubrey De Vere
Quivering … like a cunning animal whose hiding-places are surrounded by swift-advancing flame.
—George Eliot
Quivered like a harp of which the strings are ready to spring.
—Gustave Flaubert
Quivers as if it were nipped with frost.
—Kalidasa
Quivered … as a breakwater-pile quivers to the rush of landward-racing seas.
—Rudyard Kipling
Quivering like a man’s hand when he raises it to say good-bye.
—Rudyard Kipling
Quivered like a willow wand.
—Joaquin Miller
Quivered like forest-leaves.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Quiver …
Like weeds unfolding in the ocean.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Quivering as when life is hard on death.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Quiver,
Like jewels in the river.
—Theodore Tilton