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
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 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
But the smith's boldness and independence were gone; he was ashake with fear.
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
