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
Nance, all ashake with disgust, stooped suddenly and picked up a lump of rock.
From A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham
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 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
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
