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Shiver in sentence

66 examples of Shiver in a sentence

If we keep perfectly still, maybe they won't notice us at all.""I'll try to, Tom, but, Lord, I'm all of a shiver."
It kept him in a cold shiver all the time.
The quicker the better--I'm all in a shiver."
I was uneasy to be away from her, and yet when I was with her I was in a shiver all the time for fear my stumbling talk might weary her or give her offence.
Camille having grown up, rescued from death, had contracted a shiver from the torture of the repeated shocks he had undergone.
But she barely answered, a shiver ran through her frame, and she resumed her meditative trance.
This thought sent a cold shiver down his back.
The thought flashed through them like an icy shiver.
"Oh! no, I'm afraid," she answered with a shiver.
"It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low voice, changing her seat as requested.
Topaz was cosier when they had got the church, the saloon, the school, and three houses up; the loneliness made him shiver.
"And she carried thee!" said the Queen with a shiver, drawing the Prince closer to her, for, like all Indian women, she counted the touch and glance of a widow things of evil omen.
Since my misfortunes I have been subject to faintnesses, which seize me all at once, and I have just felt a cold shiver.
This time, without knowing why, d’Artagnan felt a cold shiver run through his veins.
D’Artagnan burst into a laugh which changed the shiver of the host into a burning fever.
EXCITING DISCUSSIONS ABOUT AN UNPARALLELED ENTERPRISEAt these words a cold shiver ran through me.
"My word, it does not seem a very cheerful place," said the detective with a shiver, glancing round him at the gloomy slopes of the hill and at the huge lake of fog which lay over the Grimpen Mire.
It was this pride of Boy Jim's which led to an adventure which makes me shiver now when I think of it.
There is no more to say, but east and west,In go the speares sadly in the rest,In goth the sharp spur into the side,There see men who can just and who can ride;There shiver shaftes upon shieldes thick,He feeleth through the heart-spone the prick;Up springen speares, twenty feet in height,Out go the swordes to the silver bright;The helms they to-hewn and to-shred;Out burst the blood with stern streames red.
your ladies are but sun-burned, if they are not worth the shiver of a broken lance?""The Brethren of the Temple," said the Grand Master, riding forward in advance of their body, "fight not on such idle and profane quarrel--and not with thee, Richard of England, shall a Templar cross lance in my presence.
Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria--"''Ugh!' said the Lory, with a shiver.
We talked leaning against the low wall of the narrow lane, hands in pockets, bareheaded, while the wind sometimes made us shiver with cold, and at other times, with warm puffs, awoke some deep urge within us.
A change had taken place in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind, whistling through the crevices of our bedroom windows all night long, had made us shiver in our beds, and turned the contents of the ewers to ice.
It must be stated, in honor of the good sense of the loungers of Paris, that the greater part of this crowd directed their steps towards the bonfire, which was quite in season, or towards the mystery play, which was to be presented in the grand hall of the Palais de Justice (the courts of law), which was well roofed and walled; and that the curious left the poor, scantily flowered maypole to shiver all alone beneath the sky of January, in thecemetery of the Chapel of Braque.
His teeth chattered; a visible shiver ran through his whole body.
These images of voluptuousness made him clench his fists, and a shiver run along his spine.
Now I tremble and shiver and break down at the decisive moment, I feel conscious of something supreme enveloping us, and I stammer.
But something told her also that it was too late; that the one whom such a flame had embraced as that which had embraced her, the one who had seen what was done at that feast and whose heart had beaten as hers had on hearing the words of Vinicius, the one through whom such a shiver had passed as had passed through her when he approached, was lost beyond recovery.
In every case, at the mere recollection of Ursus, a shiver ran through Chilo's whole body.
In his voice there was something so terrible that a shiver ran through all present.
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