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
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
The horse "with long mane ashake; hoofs, heavy with tumult; eyes, glimmering white."
From Barks and Purrs by Colette
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
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
