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
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
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
