Word: shudder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ghastly buffoon, it is a broken-hearted recording angel. Like some horrible ghoul, grinning and gibbering forever amid its dark mysteries, it stretches out awful hands to the wretched and the despairing throughout the vast, throbbing city, and whispers: "Come to me, come to me!" and they hear and shudder and turn cold at heart, and-come...
...scarcely credible to believe that any such outrageous system of training as was practiced by all professionals fifteen years ago, should ever have been adopted by Harvard men. Rowing men of the present will shudder at the requirements of a captain of a crew in former years...
...year the College press here has alternately thundered and complained, and the only appreciable result has been that this year, at this early date, the number of "mockers" has grown to be legion. What it will become later at its present rate of increase, is a prospect we shudder to contemplate. Everything except extermination has been recommended hitherto, and we are now emboldened, as a last resort, to offer this remedy as of value for our troubles with the "mucker...
Might not she shudder at the blank abyss
...awful, fiendful tale. I shudder to repeat it, yet I will...