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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Shudder (Verb)

Shuddered like some woman’s overfat pug when a street dog bristles up at him.
—O. Henry

Shuddered like a man in a fever.
—Maurice Hewlett

Shuddered as at a swift cleaving of cold steel.
—George Meredith

Shuddering like a shot bird.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne