Read full poem →Hark! In the passage is heard the clink of armour, the tread of a heavy man.
The door bursts open and standing there, his thin hair wavering
in the glare of steely daylight, is my Lord of Clair.
Dictionary Entry
To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
In a Sentence
“Flowers wavered in the breeze.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. waveringbetween waveringlight waveringline waveringwavering without
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Poetry examples for “wavering”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Is like a scattering of gold crocus-petals
In a long wavering irregular flight.
Read full poem →Poised on the fircrested rock, over the pool which below him
Gleams in the wavering sunlight, waiting the shock of his plunging.
So for a moment I stand, my feet planted firm in the present,
Read full poem →The haven-touching bark, now near the lea;
So wavering Cupid brings me back amain,
And purple Love resumes his darts again.
Read full poem →Whether She kept her word, or He the mind
To hold her, wavering, to his own restraint,
Answer, ye pleasures faint,
Read full poem →And came again, ere Autumn died, to birth,
Stand full-array'd, amidst the wavering shower,
And perfect for the Summer, less the flower;
Read full poem →She turn’d her face, and laugh’d, with light
Like moonbeams on a wavering mere.
Weary beforehand of the night,
Read full poem →And rubber heeled.
Here priests and wavering want are charmed.
And shadows fall here like the shark's
Read full poem →Most trulie doth unto our eyes appeare,
Wearie to see the heavens still wavering thus,
I saw Typhaeus sister* comming neare;
Read full poem →Piling the west with many a tawny sheaf,
Then when the last glad wavering hours are mown
Sigheth and dies because the day is sped;