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ashake

[uh-sheyk] / 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

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

The horse "with long mane ashake; hoofs, heavy with tumult; eyes, glimmering white."

From Barks and Purrs by Colette

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




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