ashake
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
On both sides of the Atlantic, thriller-dealers were set ashake by a rather small boo from Msgr.
From Time Magazine Archive
He seemed to be in the last extremity of fright, with a face the color of clay and his limbs all ashake as one who hath an ague.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Blacky was all ashake again, but this time it wasn't with fear of being caught away from home in the dark; it was with excitement.
From Blacky the Crow by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
The Countess indeed had crept to her side, and cast her arm about her, but she was a child, and ashake already.
From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Stanley J. Weyman
Nance, all ashake with disgust, stooped suddenly and picked up a lump of rock.
From A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham
