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

I was ashake from head to foot; and groaned aloud.

From Shrewsbury A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.

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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

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 Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)