Shiver Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Shiver


Shiver as the swimmer when he makes his first plunge. —Anonymous	1
Shivered like a tyrant king when he smelt gunpowder. —Anonymous	2
Shivered as if in a deadly chill. —J. M. Barrie	3
Shivered as with an ague-fit. —Robert M. Bird	4
Shivered in my heart like a suffering child in a cold cradle. —Charlotte Brontë	5
Shiver Like the lotus in the river. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	6
A shivering thing; Like a young bird missing its mother’s wing. —Eliza Cook	7
Shivers, like a signal-flame held high. —Victor Hugo	8
Shivered … like tautened wire. —John Masefield	9
Made one shiver unpleasantly, as when the Espanña comes to close quarters with the infuriated brute at a bull fight. —Guy de Maupassant	10
Shiver’d, like wither’d moss. —James Montgomery	11
Shivering in the wind like the sails in the sea song. —John Poole	12
Shiver’d like an egg. —William Shakespeare	13
Shivering as if a bullet had struck him. —George Bernard Shaw	14