Adjective : a shuddering plunge of the ship. From Dictionary.com.
It made her heart stop in her chest and her breath come in short shuddering gasps. From Wordnik.com. [faceless]
Zogar sent another call shuddering through the night, and it was utterly unlike the first cry. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquering Sword of Conan]
Atop him, the hell-hound was still breathing in short, shuddering gasps despite the gaping wound in its torso. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicles of Riddick]
Five Grammys to an artist whose singing was overshadowed by her bizarre attempts at dancing (if you didn't watch, it's probably best described as shuddering). From Wordnik.com. [John Lundberg: The Real Appeal of Amy Winehouse] Reference
"What a jester you are becoming, ma mie," he laughed and at the sound she shuddered again and drew mechanically nearer to the fire as though her shuddering was the result of cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Trampling of the Lilies] Reference
And I'm standing there kind of shuddering, and Mildred walks up and she said, ` You leave him alone. From Wordnik.com. [Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences] Reference
She paused, and a kind of shuddering whiteness came across the girl's face. From Wordnik.com. [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference
She reached out with a kind of shuddering fascination and touched the gold. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Chronicle — Complete] Reference
It was a kind of shuddering sigh, followed by loud murmurings, and here and there angry protests. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the War] Reference
All civilized men should denounce it -- all women should regard it with a kind of shuddering abhorrence. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews] Reference
The whole South African world seemed to stand in a kind of shuddering awe of him, friend and enemy alike. From Wordnik.com. [Following the Equator] Reference
The children walked slower and closer together, in a state of excited expectation, and a kind of shuddering curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Home] Reference
"You'll have to excuse me," said Steve, shuddering. From Wordnik.com. [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference
"What a horrid old wretch she must be!" shuddering. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Yes, Lilla was crying: low moaning, shuddering sobs. From Wordnik.com. [Beautiful Are the Feet: Part Two] Reference
But the prayer hung aborted between the shuddering sighs. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
I saw a movement beneath his lids like the shuddering of a bird. From Wordnik.com. [‘My Father’s Secret War’] Reference
"Don't even inquire of me about them," Plekoskaya said, shuddering. From Wordnik.com. [I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon] Reference
There is no heaving and shuddering, except inside each of us wondering. From Wordnik.com. [MARTIAL LAW - LOCK DOWN IN PARADISE] Reference
At last day broke with the shuddering glare so distressing to invalids. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Summer shuddering, coming to a close with the last drops of water in the rose. From Wordnik.com. [Renee Fleming: 'Four Last Songs' Of Strauss] Reference
Sometimes I shudder in the nest and can not take it, I take it, but while shuddering, still. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest] Reference
I feel like a dynamo, too, on the shuddering varnished bench over the ferry's grinding engines. From Wordnik.com. [The Line] Reference
With first-time buyers unable to get on the ladder, the property market is shuddering to a halt. From Wordnik.com. [House prices have nowhere to go but down] Reference
This is followed by shuddering and head shaking, as they silently wonder where it all went wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Frugal Family Guide] Reference
Irregular canonic imitations in both spoken and vocal lines gave the witches initial shuddering presence. From Wordnik.com. [Rodney Punt: The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth: A Chamber Opera of Horrors at Fais Do-Do] Reference
“This music is shite”, shouted Captain Cat, “shuddering shite, and this whole party is shite, too!”. From Wordnik.com. [At a Welsh Wedding] Reference
The young fellow, half unconscious indeed, put his head down upon her shoulder with a great shuddering sigh. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Oh the white sight, Oh the shuddering night, The shivering shuddering night, On the wold, the wold, the wold!. From Wordnik.com. [Poem of the week: Wind by Sydney Dobell] Reference
There was nothing like death in it all save the heap of coffins, and from them they shrank shuddering and appalled. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
After an hour Nanette left the couple to their own devices and she rode down in the elevator, shuddering with disgust. From Wordnik.com. [Hotel Chelsea - Nanette 2] Reference
For a moment she hid her face in her hands, shuddering, and when she raised it again the tears were running down her cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
In the room, a "" sort of shuddering cry began, '' recalled George Plimpton, who had helped wrestle the gunman to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Rfk's Last Campaign] Reference
For a few moments she lay perfectly still, and then, with a long-drawn, shuddering gasp, threw back her handsome head and died. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
Then would the form of this, his unprovoked and relentless enemy, rise before her mind, and her soul turned shuddering from the image. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Many females are troubled with colic pains, creeping of the skin, shuddering, and fainting fits immediately on conception taking place. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
At once the shuddering dread which had attended his recent visits to the secret recess returned with numbing chills and sinking spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
"How gallant you are, I declare, Tommy Sherwood," cried Nan, laughing again, and then shuddering as the growl of the thunder was repeated. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
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