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  • In that shuddersome ravine unusual sounds will rattle along sometimes from wall to wall and gully to gully, multiplying as they go, until night grows full of thunder.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • It was a devils 'anthem, glorifying hellishness -- suggestive of the gnashing of a million teeth, and the whicker of drawn blades -- more shuddersome and mean than the wind of a winter's night.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • I had a shuddersome memory of the trio of dead cows near Wichita.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • Kelsey, was it the shuddersome aspects or the watered-down sci-fi-philosophical hooey?

    “I find this disgusting . . . | clusterflock 2009

  • Level 2 activities include a mat on the floor, an opaque shower curtain free of mold around the edges, even a picture or two on the walls of the bathroom I fully admit the pictures thing matters to me personally more than most: I find completely empty walls a shuddersome situation.

    Awesome yuki_onna 2009

  • I had a shuddersome memory of the trio of dead cows near Wichita.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • I had a shuddersome memory of the trio of dead cows near Wichita.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • Thanks to films like Eric Nicholas 'disturbing "Alone With Her," you can now spend eighty minutes squashed in tight quarters with one such bastion of emotional stability, watching his shuddersome actions as closely as he and his cohorts may be watching you.

    Melissa Lafsky: Stalking At Tribeca: Alone With Colin Hanks 2008

  • An obscure, shuddersome premonition shook him and he spurred the stallion into swift canter.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • All those myths of antiquity -- behind them did there lie and lurk nightmare realities with slavering fangs and talons steeped in shuddersome evil?

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

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