Aquiver – Adjective –shaking or trembling because of strong emotion (Merriam Webster)
The word “aquiver” is found on the fifth paragraph of “The Story of An Hour”.
She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all” aquiver” with the new spring life.
My understanding of the word “aquiver” in this paragraph is that the tops of trees are quivering or shaking but to begin a new life against the breeze of the spring. I think that the narrator is using the trembling new spring life of the trees to describe the shakiness of Mrs. Mallard body due to her strong emotion after she heard the news of the death of her husband or of having a strong emotion after thinking of her new life without her husband.
