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 horse "with long mane ashake; hoofs, heavy with tumult; eyes, glimmering white."
From Barks and Purrs by Colette
Nance, all ashake with disgust, stooped suddenly and picked up a lump of rock.
From A Maid of the Silver Sea by Oxenham, John
"Then you agree?" queried the other, all ashake.
From The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
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 Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
