ashake

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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 Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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

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

From Barks and Purrs by Colette

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 Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology by Aldington, Richard