Famous quotes containing the word shook:
“But now he snapped his eyes three times;
Then shook his lantern, saying, “He’s
‘Bout out!” and took the long way home
By road, a matter of several miles.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“He weren’t no saint—but at Jedgment
I’d run my chance with Jim,
‘Longside of some pious gentlemen
That wouldn’t shook hands with him.
He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing,—
And went for it, thar an’ then:
And Christ ain’t a-goin’ to be too hard
On a man that died for me.”
—John Milton Hay (1838–1905)
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)