Shaken

Examples

• Someone may have shaken the box and displaced it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Get along with you, my woman,' he added in her ear, 'get along with you, while you know you're Affery, and before you're shaken to yeast. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He looks sadly changed--terribly shaken. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Cos, says Jo with a perplexed stare but without being at all shaken in his certainty, cos that there's the wale, the bonnet, and the gownd. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Well may I be shaken, I replied, happy as I am. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The sound by nature undergo these tortures, and are racked, shaken, shattered; their beauty and bloom perish, but life remains untouched. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Oh, Lord, I am shaken to bits! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I am naturally very strong; yet I have been thoroughly shaken lately by an accumulation of trouble. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The oppression of Celia, Tantripp, and Sir James was shaken off, and she walked straight to the library. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and shaken than I had ever seen him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• They have braved the storms and sieges of three thousand years, and have been shaken by many an earthquake, but still they stand. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He asked a question which satisfied me that I had shaken him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Probably the numerous Jews in Medina had shaken the ancient idolatry of the people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At the end of this line it is shaken out over a grating, and the sand handled in the same manner as on the smaller conveyors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Hereupon Caroline presented her hand, which was accordingly taken and shaken. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The guide was considerably shaken up, but he made one more venture. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• As he became rational, he ought to have roused himself and shaken off all that was unworthy in their authority. Jane Austen. Emma.
• You don't feel at all shaken, Mr. Jennings, in respect to this medical enterprise of yours? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We had shaken hands; he had turned to gobut he was not satisfied: he had not done or said enough to content his generous impulses. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I'm shaken all to pieces! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And also the idea that a man may do what he likes with his own was clearly very much shaken in relation to other sorts of property. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I felt inclined to ask; but I simply answered, I have shaken her well, and would have shaken her better, but she escaped out of my hands and ran away. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He sat down in a chair, shaken by a sudden access. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The grip of some terrible emotion seemed to have seized him, and shaken him to the soul. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Mr. Bagnet in the meantime has shaken hands with his old comrade and with Phil, on whom Mrs. Bagnet likewise bestows a good-humoured nod and smile. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The first jolt had like to have shaken me out of my hammock, but afterward the motion was easy enough. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• She has sat near me, and I have not shaken--more than my desk. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You have been sitting up all night, says he, and your nerves are shaken. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Don't speak to me, for I find my nerves a little shaken! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I've been shaken, and I won't bear it! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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