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Librettist Colby's campy, hit-or-miss humor works best in a scene describing the heroine's mother, a "chronic shiverer" who goes to her reward wearing enough garments to stock a branch of Marks & Spencer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ere you follow nature's lead, Of her powers in you have heed; Else a shiverer you will find You have challenged humankind.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George

Each camp has a bath master who stands on a stool and sprinkles each little shiverer as he trots under.

From Dear Enemy by Webster, Jean

He who had loved her so long, always in fact, who was ten years younger than the other, and who certainly was no shiverer?

From The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Ives, George Burnham

Then a door was opened, and the small shiverer thrust in, not unkindly, with the words— “A little lady come for a bit and a sup with you, sir.”

From The Heiress of Wyvern Court by Searchfield, Emilie