Quiver has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | ‘Often, it’s said, her sisters would tell her “Salmacis, take up the hunting-spear or the painted quiver and vary your idleness with some hard work, hunting!” But she takes up neither the hunting spear nor the painted quiver, and will not vary her idleness with the hardship of hunting. | |
| 2. | In mathematics, a quiver is a directed graph. | |
| 3. | When he was about to shoot the thirtieth arrow, the archer realised that his quiver was empty. | |
| 4. | The quiver was red. | |
| 5. | This could make any girl quiver. | |
| 6. | Where is my quiver? | |
| 7. | I fancy those arrows did not come from your quiver. Who told you how to answer so cleverly? | |
| 8. | "Ho, Sirs!" she hails them, "saw ye here astray / ought of my sisters, girt in huntress wise / with quiver and a spotted lynx-skin gay, / or following on the foaming boar with cries?" | |
| 9. | "Nay, nay, to no such honour I aspire." / Said Venus, "But a simple maid am I, / and 'tis the manner of the maids of Tyre / to wear, like me, the quiver, and to tie / the purple buskin round the ankles high." | |
| 10. | Such as Diana, with her Oreads seen / on swift Eurotas' banks or Cynthus' crest, / leading the dances. She, in form and mien, / armed with her quiver, towers above the rest, / and tranquil pleasure thrills Latona's silent breast. |