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
I was ashake from head to foot; and groaned aloud.
From Shrewsbury A Romance 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
But the smith's boldness and independence were gone; he was ashake with fear.
From The Abbess Of Vlaye 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 Amores Poems by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
