aquake

The racked and tortured echoes were all aquake within half a mile of the spot where, bareheaded, heedless of the threatened ignominy alike of sun-bonnet or nightcap, Leander sat in the flickering sunshine and shadow upon a rock beside the spring, and blissfully experimented with all the capacities of catgut to produce sound.

And the spirit of fear was upon him; his countenance was blanched and his body all aquake; and I, ashamed that one who bore my own semblance should stand disgraced among his fellows, rebuked him for his cowardice; and methought I blew a fire through his nostrils into the marrow of his bones.

Soon, France's Baltic garrisons were aquake with jitters, and the neutrals were agape with admiration.

Then ringeth all the mighty heaven with thunder of its wrack, The banks are rent, the frighted stream its waters casteth back;240 But Cacus' den and kingly house showed all uncovered there, The inmost of the shadowy cave was laid undoored and bare: As if the inner parts of earth 'neath mighty stroke should gape, Unlocking all the house of hell, showing that country's shape, The wan land all forlorn of God: there shows the unmeasured pit, And ghosts aquake with light of day shot through the depths of it.

Unlearned Æneas fell aquake at such a wondrous thing,710 And asketh what it all may mean, what rivers these may be, And who the men that fill the banks with such a company.