Famous quotes containing the word shook:
“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 (1792–1822)
“If any man drew near
When I was young,
I thought, “He holds her dear,”
And shook with hate and fear.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“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)