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Definition of Ashake
1. in a shaking state [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ashake
Literary usage of Ashake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"He seemed to be in the last extremity of fright, with a face the colour of clay
and his limbs all ashake as one who hath an ague. ..."
2. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1890)
"Dunkery Beacon," whispered John, so close into my ear that I felt his lips and
teeth ashake ; "dursn't fire it now, no more than to show the Doones way home ..."
3. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"... They have hidden themselves in the leafy shelters: All the green leagues of
the forest are ashake with invitation. ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1861)
"... and all his limbs ashake, how these slighter warnings at the glen's skirts
would give place to its denser dreadfulness within—the hisses, the shriekings ..."
5. Letters of Richard Watson Gilder by Richard Watson Gilder (1916)
"Here and there I might shake my head (gray hairs, you know, have a trick of
setting our heads ashake) but nearly all I like, and I like thoroughly. ..."
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