Shake

Famous quotes containing the word shake:

“I’ll shake the bees
from the thyme-heads for you,
and gather mint.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don’t fall out they let them live another year.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

“Of late, eternal Condor years
So shake the very Heaven on high
With tumult as they thunder by,
I have no time for idle cares
Through gazing on the unquiet sky.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)