Famous quotes containing the word shook:
“Jove, nodding, shook the Heavens, and said,
Offending race of human kind,
By nature, reason, learning, blind;
You who through frailty stepped aside,
And you who never fellthrough pride;”
—Jonathan Swift (16671745)
“He werent no saintbut at Jedgment
Id run my chance with Jim,
Longside of some pious gentlemen
That wouldnt shook hands with him.
He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing,
And went for it, thar an then:
And Christ aint a-goin to be too hard
On a man that died for me.”
—John Milton Hay (18381905)
“At night the passion came,
Like the fierce fiend of a distempered dream,
And shook him from his rest, and led him forth
Into the darkness.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)