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Shivery

adjective

Cold enough to cause shivers. "Shivery weather"

Provoking fear terror. Synonyms: chilling, scarey, scary, shuddery. "The most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"

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"Shivery" Quotes from Famous Books

... the table. No one spoke of the fight. But he kept up a shivery thought of wondering if the ball he had thrown at Marilla had really hurt her. It wasn't a hard ball, at least not as hard as they ...

— A Modern Cinderella • Amanda M. Douglas

... dish-pan and confronted the headlong speaker. "Well!" she said again, poising a great brown rag. Kate had heard the excited new-comer, and drifted down from the novel in her room. She was a shivery little woman. Her shoulder-blades seemed to be two panes of ice, for she was constantly shrugging and shrugging. "Serves him right if he was to lose all his patients," she said suddenly, in blood-thirsty tones. She snipped her words out as ...

— The Monster and Other Stories - The Monster; The Blue Hotel; His New Mittens • Stephen Crane

... dawned—not bright and warm and sunny as Mary Jane had hoped it surely would—but rainy and cold and windy as some May mornings are sure to be in Chicago. A cold northeast wind raced across the city and folks had blue noses and shivery finger tips and not a single thing to be seen ...

— Mary Jane's City Home • Clara Ingram Judson

... take about four grains of quinine, if you don't mind— I'm feeling all blue and shivery. Guess ...

— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry

... dark, the town lights being put out at two a.m., for reasons of thrift perhaps. There was a high wind that cried in the trees. My shoes on the board walks, here and there, sounded like the thuds of a giant. I recall progressing in a shivery ghost-like sort of way, expecting at any step to encounter goblins of the most approved form, until finally the well-known outlines of the house of the doctor on the main street—yellow, many-roomed, a wide ...

— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser

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