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The splashed waters became still, and softly the whole picture pink sunbonnet, clay-bank pony, pale and shivery willows, and deep blue sky developed on the negative of the clear lagoon. There was no use in saying how pretty it was, so we resorted to the other note, of disparagement.
His visits to the village once in the autumn and once in the spring were times of shivery excitement. Presently Mother rose and sailed on tiptoe round the door to peep. And a smile spread softly over her face as she noted the characteristic evidences of the children beside each bed.
"'Oh, Captain McNabbins, and Mate Govery, he cries, 'the hand of the Lord hath sent me down to keep you company down here. I never would 'a done it, captain, hard as you was on me, if only I had knowed how dark and cold and shivery it would be down here.
Copley was serious, however, in his intention of finding out if possible who was on the island; and when they had passed up the rough path to the round table-stone, Ruth had got over her little shivery feeling and was as eager as Chess himself. They passed carefully through the fringe of brush and reached the open space where the blasted beech tree stood.
Jasper has gone home quite himself, has he? asked the Dean. 'Your Reverence, he has gone home quite himself. And I'm glad to see he's having his fire kindled up, for it's chilly after the wet, and the Cathedral had both a damp feel and a damp touch this afternoon, and he was very shivery.
The slate is extremely shivery, and is found in slabs, either lying or standing upright from four to eight feet square, most easily splitting into thin plates. Ascending the mountain, they are soon dislodged, by the tread of a man's foot, and glide down towards the beach with a rattling, tinkling noise.
"My wife's got" correcting himself with a shivery shrug "my wife had a brother that took to cutting up rough because when I'd been up too late I handled her a leetle hard now and again. "Luckily he fell sick with typhoid just then you see, he lived with us. When he got better I guessed he'd drop all that; but somehow he was worse than ever clean off his head, and strong as an ox.
He felt so tight and shivery inside that he didn't know whether he wanted to laugh, or cry, or both. And the really wonderful thing about the mountain was the way it looked at him. He was certain that it was smiling at him, like an old friend who had been waiting for years to see him again. And when he closed his eyes, he seemed to hear a voice which whispered, "Come along, then, and climb."
He was one of those blossoms of male humanity that seem as expressly designed by nature for the ornamentation of ladies' boudoirs, as an Italian greyhound: he had precisely the same graceful, shivery adaptation to live by petting and caresses. His tastes were all so exquisite that it was the most difficult thing in the world to keep him out of misery a moment.
He came towards her, looking at her gloomily, looking himself thin and grey and shivery but always like a prince. "You have more flesh to keep you warm than I have," said he, quite roughly. "Thank you!" She bridled and flushed.
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