The man that shivered on the brink of sin, / Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in.
1847, (w), (w), Chapter XVIII
Mr. Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red. The footman who brought the coal, in going out, stopped near Mr. Eshton's chair, and said something to him in a low voice, of which I heard only the words, "old woman,"—"quite troublesome."
1922, (w), (w)
He was shivering a little, for he had always been used to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time his coat had worn so thin and threadbare from hugging that it was no longer any protection to him.
puhekieltä To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
The act or result of shivering.
(RQ:Chmbrs YngrSt)
But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
puhekieltä A bodily response to early hypothermia.(w)
But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling has no aesthetically noble associations connected with it, then am I ready to shiver fifty lances with you there, and unhorse you with a split helmet every time.
1904, (w), The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, Norton (2005), page 1034:
he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which stood with several other works of art upon the counter, lying shivered into fragments.
2010, (w), Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 183:
A whole series of fault lines radiated away from this Lisbon earthquake, all of them shivering the structures of traditional order.