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.
There was a rustling which seemed like a shudder running round the room.
Oh, Marilla, it gives me a shudder to think of it.
A few steps brought them to the spring, and Tom felt a shudder quiver all through him.
Every reference to the murder sent a shudder to his heart, for his troubled conscience and fears almost persuaded him that these remarks were put forth in his hearing as "feelers"; he did not see how he could be suspected of knowing anything about the murder, but still he could not be comfortable in the midst of this gossip.
Presently Huckleberry whispered with a shudder: "It's the devils sure enough.
How his name would fill the world, and make people shudder!
A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one.
A shudder comes o'er me- -- Why wert thou so dear?
It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.
Some think they are an affordable way to get to use expensive make-up, while others shudder at the thought of sharing a lipstick with a stranger.
I shudder to think.
The thought made Catelyn shudder.
