What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.
The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.
America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.
I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.
The contrast between the two, the sweetness and the badness, wrenches the heart of the lover as such sweetness on its own would not, and the lover shudders all the more at dread of the beloved's recklessness, for the sake of the sweetness that is there, and the shudder only makes more violent the shuddering that announces love.
