They could not help shuddering when they found a dead body in the wood.
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Shuddering
Synonyms for "shuddering" (72 found)
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5 entriesbodily movementmechanical movementphysical motionphysiological responsetremor-like movement
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8 entriesCollocations
12 entriesshuddering bodyshuddering breathshuddering coldshuddering crowdshuddering fearshuddering fitshuddering motionshuddering responseshuddering tremorshuddering voiceshuddering with coldshuddering with fear
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6 total sentences available.
Then straight, for doubtful was our answer there, / he knew him taken in the foemen's toils. / Shuddering, he checks his voice, and back his foot recoils.
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As one who, in a tangled brake apart, / on some lithe snake, unheeded in the briar, / hath trodden heavily, and with backward start / flies, trembling at the head uplift in ire / and blue neck, swoln in many a glittering spire. / So slinks Androgeus, shuddering with dismay.
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Cold horror froze each vein. / Aghast and shuddering my comrades stood; / down sank at once each heart, and terror chilled the blood. / No more with arms, for peace with vows and prayer / we sue, and pardon of these powers implore, / or be they goddesses or birds of air / obscene and dire.
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