Shivers
[ʃivəz]
Examples
- What can have put the shivers on him? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Before calamity she is a tigress; she rends her woes, shivers them in convulsed abhorrence. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And letting fly his arrow with a little more precaution than before, it lighted right upon that of his competitor, which it split to shivers. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The old lady nearly blowed us into shivers and smithers, many times. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I'll beat the shivers so far, I'll bet you. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Editor: Luke