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

Crowns are ashake, The princes and the Kings are bending low, And, round the world, Before the blast of Freedom, thrones are hurled: The People are awake!

From Rebel Verses by Gilbert, Bernard

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

From Shrewsbury A Romance 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.

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)