ashake
Example Sentences
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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
I was ashake from head to foot; and groaned aloud.
From Shrewsbury A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
The pine trees bend to listen to the autumn wind as it mutters Something which sets the black poplars ashake with hysterical laughter; While slowly the house of day is closing its eastern shutters.
From Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology by Richard Aldington
The horse "with long mane ashake; hoofs, heavy with tumult; eyes, glimmering white."
From Barks and Purrs by Colette
