Example Sentences
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Quaked the earth And Xanthus' murmuring streams; so mightily She shook them: terror-stricken were the souls Of all the Nymphs, adread for Priam's town.
From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders
What aid needs he who shook his bow, And at the sound the earth below With hill and wood and rooted rock Quaked feverous with the thunder shock?
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Confusion seized his brain; his noble limbs Quaked under him, and panic-stunn'd he stood.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
Then something quaked in Madala, Quaked with magic, quaked with awe.
From Poems by Stuart, Muriel
Quaked with terror, and broke and ran 109.
From The Babylonian Legends of the Creation by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
