Shudder

Examples

• I declare, my dear Count, you make me shudder also. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It makes me shudder just to think of it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• A stagnant, sickening oil with some natural repulsion in it that makes them both shudder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I hardly knew whether to smile or shudder. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A kind of cold shudder ran through me, which I couldn't account for at the time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I felt Mr. Rochester start and shudder; he hastily flung his arms round me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A shudder like the swift passing of an electric shock ran through the house, when Rosse exclaimed, in answer to Stands Scotland where it did? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Dorothea shuddered slightly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Phaidor shuddered. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Again her name was syllabled, and she shuddered as she asked herself, am I becoming mad, or am I dying, that I hear the voices of the departed? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Tom shuddered at these frightful words, spoken with a sullen, impassioned earnestness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Gudrun shuddered as she mechanically followed his boat. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As an incontrovertible proof that those baleful attributes were all there, Mrs Wilfer shuddered on the spot. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I shuddered involuntarily, and clung instinctively closer to my blind but beloved master. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The springs of my life fell low, and the shuddering of an unutterable dread crept over me from head to foot. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The servant who had followed me staggered back shuddering, and dropped to his knees. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I will not dwell on a scene, which even at this distant period I cannot remember without shuddering. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He heaved a sort of shuddering sigh, and taking me in his arms, carried me downstairs. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Clennam could not prevent himself from shuddering inwardly, as if he had been looking on at a nest of those creatures. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I was past grieving over them, past crying over them, past shuddering over them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I don't know why it is,' said the girl, shuddering, 'but I have such a fear and dread upon me to-night that I can hardly stand. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It's morbid to say this; it's unhealthy; it's all that a well-regulated mind like Miss Clack's most instinctively shudders at. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Idealism creates an abstraction and then shudders at a reality which does not answer to it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Oh, I know your dull English respectability which shudders at the truth. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

Editor: William