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 Oxenham, John

But the smith's boldness and independence were gone; he was ashake with fear.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

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 Weyman, Stanley J.

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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir