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An almost pleasurable sensation of fright
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shiver
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n. reflex shaking caused by cold or fear or excitement [syn: tremble , shake ] an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" [syn: frisson , chill , quiver , shudder , thrill , tingle ] v. tremble convulsively, as from ...
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Shiver , released May 18, 2005, is the first album released by D. C. Simpson , author of the webcomics Ozy and Millie and I Drew This . The album was recorded by the artist and released on CafePress.com , but the tracks have also been made available for ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a tremulous, quivering motion," 1727, from shiver (v.1). The shivers in reference to fever chills is from 1861.
Usage examples of shiver.
They looked upon the ruins of Andalar the Accurst, and shivered from more than the rain.
Rudy shivered, at once repelled and curiously attracted, a fear that was oddly like acrophobia coming over him.
The glaucous green shivered into calcimine, then livid purple, then dazzling alizarin and fuchsine and chrome orange and barium yellow.
Alison turned over when he told her to, shivering in anticipation as his arm slid under her waist, lifting her buttocks up.
The architectonic purity of her world was constantly threatened by such hints of anarchy: gaps and excrescences and skew lines, and a shifting or tilting of planes to which she had continually to readjust lest the whole structure shiver into a disarray of discrete and meaningless signals.
He looked as if he were suffering a bit: visibly shivering, his chest rising and falling rapidly in the attenuated Air, his hands pushing leaves into his downturned mouth with an urgency that looked more like a craving for comfort than for food.
Excitement shivering through him, the bardling kicked his mule forward.
Although the night was warm, Barnacle, like Adam before him, felt his nakedness and shivered.
And if ever there was a boy in distress, it was Barnacle, shivering and holding on to the secret of his blackness with all his might, as the Lady sailed downstream.
Crystal shivers poured down from the chandelier, the mantelpiece mirror was cracked into stars, plaster dust flew, spent cartridges bounced over the floor, window-panes shattered, benzene spouted from the bullet-pierced primus.
Heinz Berner huddled shivering against the wall and called for his mother, His heart almost stopped beating as the footsteps stopped.
Yet it had felt all too real at the timeso real, she had awakened shivering with bone-deep chill, and was a little surprised not to find herself beslimed with mire.
Lefebvre lay down on the blanketless cot, shivering in the damp chill, and threw an arm over his eyes to keep out the dimmed light.
The horses of a drunkard, blanketless, hungry, shivering, outside of the village tavern, do they not proclaim the poor, despised owner within?
They were close to the stove and warm enough, but Laura was shivering, hearing the blizzard again and thinking that Pa was out in it.