Shook

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 fell—through pride;”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “Ten days that shook the world.”
    —John Reed (1887–1920)

    “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)