shiverer
- a word derived from shiver.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
