Shook

Famous quotes containing the word shook:

    “They put arsenic in his meat
    And stared aghast to watch him eat;
    They poured strychnine in his cup
    And shook to see him drink it up:”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “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)