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

The horse "with long mane ashake; hoofs, heavy with tumult; eyes, glimmering white."

From Barks and Purrs by Colette

I was ashake from head to foot; and groaned aloud.

From Shrewsbury A Romance 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