quake
verb (used without object)
(of persons) to shake or tremble from cold, weakness, fear, anger, or the like.
had quaked
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past perfectof quake.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Jack and Bill, who had quaked at the thoughts of being made prisoners by the soldiers, now began to have better hope of escaping.
From From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure by Archibald Webb
The hoarse boom of the surf came from the beach; the bay was uneasy, and the tide was high: the earth had quaked in the morning, and a wind-storm fought the ocean.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Those brave shoulders wide and strong, Many a Dane had quaked to see, Never a phantom fair as he,— Wife of Glendu gazed so long.
From The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems by Dora Sigerson Shorter
Stuart, himself, had quaked on this score, and had seized on this ingenious device only as a last resort.
From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Mary Noailles Murfree
Then Sir Launcelot stooped down, and cut a piece away of that cloth, and then it fared under him as the earth had quaked a little; therewithal he feared.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
