Shuddering

Examples

• 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.
• The ladders are thrown down, replied Rebecca, shuddering; the soldiers lie grovelling under them like crushed reptiles--The besieged have the better. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Oh no, indeed, sir,' replied Oliver, shuddering at the very recollection of the old wretch's countenance; 'I saw him too plainly for that. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He desired to see no more; and gave me leave to put on my clothes again, for I was shuddering with cold. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• She did not lose consciousness, but she clung tightly to him, shuddering and trembling like a frightened deer. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I felt as if I was about the commission of a dreadful crime, and avoided with shuddering anxiety any encounter with my fellow-creatures. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And, therefore, without shuddering or trembling, he heard the voice of his persecutor, as he drew near. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The great Thark's long-sword leaped from its scabbard; Thuvia shrank shuddering to my side. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• And she must spend them alone, shuddering sleepless on her bed. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Who knows all its awful perhapses,--those shudderings and tremblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She passed only from feelings of sickness to shudderings of horror; and from hot fits of fever to cold. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

Edited by Albert