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
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
I was ashake from head to foot; and groaned aloud.
From Shrewsbury A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
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
