have quaked
- present perfect of quake.
Example Sentences
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He had, perhaps, expected a less independent bearing, and that I should have quaked and crouched before him; but now, conceiving himself bearded in his own den, his old Spanish leaven was forthwith stirred up.
From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry
Woods—into whose inmost recesses we should have quaked alone to penetrate, in his company were glad as gardens, through their most awful umbrage; and there was beauty in the shadows of the old oaks.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
Were there no Creator, I must needs have quaked before the hidden chords of agony which are stretched in man and at which a malignant being might storm.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
Our faces are this day confounded, our enemies triumph, our hearts have quaked for fear, and yet they remain oppressed with sorrow and shame.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George
Bill may have quaked inwardly as he listened to this epic but outwardly he was unmoved.
From Indiscretions of Archie by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
