To lie there alone all night—to fancy the earth was slipping over—waiting for272 help that would never come—Emily could hardly restrain a shudder that might have been ruinous.
"He's dreadful," she said with a shudder.
She watched the leaves shrivel and shudder, as if they were sentient things, and then turn black.
She slipped down in the darkness, stole out the front door, approached the place of sacrifice, lifted the cover of the well, gave one unresigned shudder, and flung the parasol downward with all her force.
" "Oh, Doctor John—I shudder at the thought of being liable to such an illusion!
One single white hair streaked her nut-brown tresses; she plucked it out with a shudder.
The Problem I confess at these words a shudder passed through me.
"Heathcliff—I shudder to name him!
" "I'm certain you do," retorted Isabella; "and I shudder at you!
" Piglet, who had never been really fond of baths, shuddered a long indignant shudder, and said in as brave a voice as he could: "Kanga, I see that the time has come to spleak painly.
Errol went to the place, it made her shudder.
" And without a moment's shudder of fear, she plunged through the water, which was rising fast to her knees, and by the glimmering light of the candle she had left on the stairs, she mounted on to the window-sill, and crept into the boat, which was left with the prow lodging and protruding through the window.
It was a thought that made her shudder; it gave new definiteness to her present position, and to the tendency of what had happened the evening before.
It was only a wonder that there was no tinge of vulgarity about her, considering what the rest of poor Lucy's relations were—an allusion which always made the Miss Guests shudder a little.
I think with a shudder that her daughter will always be present in person, and have no agreeable proxies of that kind,—a fat, blond girl, with round blue eyes, who will stare at us silently.
But you—I shudder to think what you would have been—a curate in debt for horse-hire and cambric pocket-handkerchiefs!
It really makes one shudder.
Some one highly susceptible to the contemplation of a fine act has said, that it produces a sort of regenerating shudder through the frame, and makes one feel ready to begin a new life.
The cubic feet of oxygen yearly swallowed by a full-grown man—what a shudder they might have created in some Middlemarch circles!
But she hesitated, fearing to offend him by obtruding herself; for her ardor, continually repulsed, served, with her intense memory, to heighten her dread, as thwarted energy subsides into a shudder; and she wandered slowly round the nearer clumps of trees until she saw him advancing.
