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quaver
Music a note having the time value of an eighth of a semibreve


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With her quavery, honey tone, George -- the daughter of Little Feat frontman Lowell George -- zips around breezy songs like ``Again and Again,'' ``I'm a Broken Heart'' and ``I Hate Camera'' with the calm of a bossa nova chanteuse.
Those who had known her as a giant in the field of children's books and then had met her in person were momentarily surprised to find that she was very short and spoke in a high, quavery voice.
It's one thing to listen respectfully to the quavery tones of our architectural heroes but it's a perversion of the functions of the Web to use it to broadcast hours of earnest waffle.
 
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