quiver quotes

Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.

- Matthew Arnold
  The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'The Forsaken Merman', l.35^8.

Lo, children are an heritage of the L: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms127:3^5.

In all directions stretched the Great Australian Emptiness, in which the mind is the least of possessions†and the march of material ugliness does not raise a quiver from the average nerves. It was the exaltation of the'average'that made me panic most.

- Patrick Victor Martindale White
  Essay on his literary career, in Australian Letters,'The Prodigal Son', vol.1, no.3, Apr.