Example Sentences

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The result will be a cavity about 200 ft. in diameter; the surface of the earth will quake, but the AEC does not expect any radioactive debris to be vented into the atmosphere.

From Time Magazine Archive

Los Angeles airport will quake with arriving jets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stand before your judge— And your legs will quake!

From Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? by Soskice, Juliet M.

A thousand antic shapes I take; The stoutest heart at my touch will quake.

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison

One ov theze kind ov men will quake with fear when a mouse knaws in the wainskote at night, but they will face an earthquake next day with composure.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.