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