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

Shiver

Shiver as the swimmer when he makes his first plunge.
—Anonymous

Shivered like a tyrant king when he smelt gunpowder.
—Anonymous

Shivered as if in a deadly chill.
—J. M. Barrie

Shivered as with an ague-fit.
—Robert M. Bird

Shivered in my heart like a suffering child in a cold cradle.
—Charlotte Brontë

Shiver
Like the lotus in the river.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A shivering thing;
Like a young bird missing its mother’s wing.
—Eliza Cook

Shivers, like a signal-flame held high.
—Victor Hugo

Shivered … like tautened wire.
—John Masefield

Made one shiver unpleasantly, as when the Espanña comes to close quarters with the infuriated brute at a bull fight.
—Guy de Maupassant

Shiver’d, like wither’d moss.
—James Montgomery

Shivering in the wind like the sails in the sea song.
—John Poole

Shiver’d like an egg.
—William Shakespeare

Shivering as if a bullet had struck him.
—George Bernard Shaw