quavering

Voice quavering, I told Sam that I was looking for an actual relationship, one that could go somewhere.

“Keep up the fight,” he told the audience in a quavering voice.

A caller who did not identify himself pleaded in a quavering voice for the council to oppose the ban.

“She brightened my life with her happiness and bravery. I will keep preserving her spirit,” Hsiao said in a quavering voice.

His patrician, retiring style — and quavering immodulated voice — belies the urgency of his arguments against the modern political establishment that has destroyed his family’s beloved Democratic Party.