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  • noun Plural form of shivering.

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Examples

  • A white froth flecked his lips, and his body was convulsed with shiverings and tremblings.

    THE MASTER OF MYSTERY 2010

  • She drank, and straight convulsive shiverings seized

    Ion 2008

  • She drank, and straight convulsive shiverings seized

    Ion 2008

  • Christmas, at the Athenaeum Club, when he told me that he had been in bed three days — that, after these attacks, he was troubled with cold shiverings, “which quite took the power of work out of him” — and that he had it in his mind to try a new remedy which he laughingly described.

    Miscellaneous Papers 2007

  • Vigorous people, walking along the streets, were suddenly seized with shiverings and cramp, and sank down on the pavement to rise no more, sometimes actually expiring on the cold, hard stones.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • And, in verity, I was so bitter cold that I was all weak to go beside the fire; yet, truly, I do think that the shiverings of the

    The Night Land 2007

  • The system becomes affected — the pulse is quickened; and shiverings, succeeded by heat, with general lassitude and pains about the loins and limbs, with vomiting, come on.

    On Vaccination Against Smallpox 2005

  • When I saw her, which was on the eighth day after she received the infection, I found her affected with general lassitude, shiverings, alternating with heat, coldness of the extremities, and a quick and irregular pulse.

    On Vaccination Against Smallpox 2005

  • When I saw her, which was on the eighth day after she received the infection, I found her affected with general lassitude, shiverings, alternating with heat, coldness of the extremities, and a quick and irregular pulse.

    On Vaccination Against Smallpox 2005

  • William Haynes, who in consequence became affected with sores in their hands, followed by inflamed lymphatic glands in the arms and axillae, shiverings succeeded by heat, lassitude, and general pains in the limbs.

    On Vaccination Against Smallpox 2005

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