Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a shiver; quivering.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Others kept aside, manes ashiver, as if whispers went between them.
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If he was afire and ashiver, it was wholly with Lilisaire.
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If he was afire and ashiver, it was wholly with Lilisaire.
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Spoon and Dirty Sock, she all ashiver, he irritated by a piece of wood shaving that had caught in his threads, perched on the ledge before the grate.
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"Let me go long," she requested, ashiver with impatience.
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She hung right in the eye of the wind, and then fell off again two points to port, with every sail ashiver and every yard of way lost.
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"Ochone, ochone, he's gone, the strong one, and I mind me when his back was like a barn door and the love-locks curling on his brow," and she came into the chamber wringing pitiful, toil-worn hands, and the servants after her, ashiver to be left alone in the dim passage.
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And even though the air was warm, within Elza was ashiver.
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He was already ashiver and his hands and feet were numb.
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Up swept the _Nonsuch_ into the wind, with all her sails ashiver in the brisk breeze, and, watching carefully, George gave the order to fire at the exact moment when the Spanish ship was square abeam.
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