Example Sentences

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The party gazed hurriedly from face to face, and became aware that one of their party had vanished into the great darkness, even while they were shuddering at the remote possibility of such a misfortune.

From The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The walls and roof were shuddering and creaking, and the concrete floor was heaving under their feet.

From Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]

A ghastly thought it was, that while they were shuddering in the wet, their men below might be expiring for lack of a few drops of water!

From King Coal : a Novel by Sinclair, Upton

She was telling the tourists the stories of the famous disasters and they were shuddering at her tale.

From The Camp Fire Girls at School Or, The Wohelo Weavers by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)

It is only a tremendous quaking of the whole building, as though the earth were shuddering.

From The Jewel City by Macomber, Ben