aquake

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Soon, France's Baltic garrisons were aquake with jitters, and the neutrals were agape with admiration.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was then, when the frontier was broken and all the world aquake with alarm, that he consulted his generals; the only time he ever did so.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

Unlearned Æneas fell aquake at such a wondrous thing,710 And asketh what it all may mean, what rivers these may be, And who the men that fill the banks with such a company.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

Downward they fled, From under the haunted roof, To the valley aquake with the tread Of an iron-resounding hoof, As of legions of thunderful horse Broken loose and in line tramping hard.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George