ashake
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of 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
"Then you agree?" queried the other, all ashake.
From The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Rex Ellingwood Beach
The horse "with long mane ashake; hoofs, heavy with tumult; eyes, glimmering white."
From Barks and Purrs by Colette
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 Stanley J. Weyman
Blacky was all ashake again, but this time it wasn't with fear of being caught away from home in the dark; it was with excitement.
From Blacky the Crow by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
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