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ashake

[uh-shayk] / əˈʃeɪk /


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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

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 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

Nance, all ashake with disgust, stooped suddenly and picked up a lump of rock.

From A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham


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