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shivering

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shivering [′shiv·ə·riŋ]
(materials)
Cracks and scales on a pottery glaze caused by unequal contraction during cooling.

shivering
The splintering that occurs in a fired glass or ceramic coating owing to critical compressive stresses.


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Notwithstanding the little iron stove, the ink froze on the swing- table in the cabin, and I found it more convenient to go ashore stumbling over the arctic waste-land and shivering in glazed tramcars in order to write my evening letter to my owners in a gorgeous cafe in the centre of the town.
I am shivering again--shivering, from head to foot, in the summer air.
At the turn of the tide, something goes on in the unknown deeps below, which sets the whole face of the quicksand shivering and trembling in a manner most remarkable to see, and which has given to it, among the people in our parts, the name of the Shivering Sand.
 
 
 
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