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