Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, represented as broken into fragments or ragged pieces: said especially of a lance.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
shiver .
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Examples
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The soft expanse of flesh beneath her chin shivered with concern.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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The soft expanse of flesh beneath her chin shivered with concern.
365 tomorrows » The Robot Whisperer : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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When I lifted his picture from my desk, I shivered, which is not my usual reaction to his treasured face.
The Devil's Bedpost 2010
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When I lifted his picture from my desk, I shivered, which is not my usual reaction to his treasured face.
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In the fight, so she took some rice and ran on ahead and again met her son and told him to do the war dance and show how he was going to fight; and as he danced his sword shivered to atoms.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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Then the trumpet call shivered through these exiles.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index Grenville Kleiser 1910
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The King's sword shivered and fell harmless as Richard shot by him.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Margot shivered as she crossed the portals, and rubbed her hands together in disconsolate fashion, even her cheery optimism failing at the sight.
Big Game A Story for Girls George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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She smote on a knight's shield, her sword shivered in that stroke, she caught her steel sperthe into her hand, and struck and hewed amain, and there were empty saddles round her.
A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878
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In guarding his head from one of his opponent's sweeping blows Walter's sword shivered at the hilt; but before the Gray
Louises commented on the word shivered
Blue spring sky and lively sunlight and aLouises Manhattan, needless to say, flowed around us, honked, glimmered, flashed, steamed, whistled, whooped and subterraneously shuddered. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Mar 10, 2012 ⋅ edit ⋅ delete
breeze that shivered the puddles and set London's buds nodding on their stems.
March 25, 2012
ry commented on the word shivered
this could go on hernesheir's list of heraldry terms
March 11, 2014