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- not comparableShivering.
The wind that sets the yellowed grass ashiver ’neath the Sun.
1908, Rudyard Kipling, Letters to the Family, Toronto: Macmillan, Letter 6, p. 473 more examples
Father Christmas, behold, all ashiver with cold, But the parent of blessings too vast to be told;
1865, Henry Alford, “The Seasons: A Masque”, in The Poetical Works of Henry Alford, London: Alexander Strahan, page 337He walked in the direction of Rooble’s, his lips ashiver with the shibboleths of the pious, thanking Allah for the loan of breath, life and soul; praying that Allah, the Prophets and the Saints would stay him during these most tempting hours.
1983, Nuruddin Farah, Close Sesame, London: Allison & Busby, Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 97The pipal tree — of course! She stared at its massive trunk, pale in the moonlight, and the sinuous branches and twigs silvery and ashiver […]
2001, Anita Desai, “The Rooftop Dwellers”, in Diamond Dust and Other Stories, New York: Vintage, page 186
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