They were also used in Ancient Greece and often feature on sculptural representations of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. This style of quiver was used by native peoples of North America and Africa, and was also commonly depicted in bas-reliefs from ancient Assyria. Arrows can be drawn over the shoulder rapidly by the nock.
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(19) Djokovic, though, is nothing if not resilient and the Serb rallied to go 4-2 ahead, pulling himself up to his full champion's height, and drawing the first anxious, quavering clamour around Centre Court's steeply banked gunmetal green bowl.A y-shaped harness for a back quiver features on this bronze statue of Artemis, goddess of the hunt, mid-4th century BC.īack quivers are secured to the archer's back by leather straps, with the nock ends protruding above the dominant hand's shoulder.(18) Either the right or the left finger started tapping the quavers (onset time t1), after about 4 s the other finger joined in (t2) either with quavers as well (easy rhythm) or with triplets (difficult rhythm).(17) A modification of Isshiki's technique has been applied in ten patients exhibiting the breathiness and quavering voice typical of an "elderly" larynx, eight of whom have been followed long enough to be evaluated, and in two younger patients with similarly unexplained vocal fold flaccidity.(16) Parliament suspended its normal sessions today to hear condolence speeches by legislators, many of them speaking in voices that quavered with emotion.(15) Subjects (Ss) either tapped with their two index fingers in synchrony (quavers against quavers "2 against 2") or they tapped quavers against triplets ("2 against 3").(14) But the timing of her pleas for food, her choice of words, the choice of ham sandwiches and a packet of Quavers – they were little nuggets of comedy gold, genius even.(13) On Etsy you can buy everything from appliqué and pendants to lanterns made of Quavers.(12) 8.03pm BST The plucky strings are basically Mel and Sue made into quavers and crotchets.(11) It’s easy to say: ‘I’m out here working and he’s just sitting there spending his giro on booze.’ But there isn’t a show about Amazon or these tax-dodging corporations that are fleecing the country much more than a guy who’s pretending to have a sore back so he can eat Quavers and watch Storage Wars all day.” A vote for independence, he says, would have been a step away from all that.(10) And the parliamentary Labour party led Europe’s social democrats into quavering irrelevance.(9) His face looks as confident as Jadav’s – but the quaver in his voice might just have betrayed some deeply harboured doubts.(8) This wine probably cheered someone up when Mozart died”, he quavered at one point, and it didn’t even sound a tenth as stupid as it looks written down.(7) His songs were the soundtrack to my life: a quavering New York voice with little range singing songs of alienation and despair, with flashes of impossible hope and of those tiny, perfect days and nights we want to last for ever, important because they are so finite and so few songs filled with people, some named, some anonymous, who strut and stagger and flit and shimmy and hitch-hike into the limelight and out again.(6) Certain fans couldn't even look you in the face – you'd have to go over and say, 'Hi, I'm Jason', and they'd go – a quavering voice – 'Oh my God, I know!'".(5) My husband and I can’t read or write, and we want our children to go to school.” Before we leave, her husband shows us what the Taliban objected to so violently: a long-necked lute, on which he plays a quavering tune.
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