Shake Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Shake


Shake like an aspen leaf. —Anonymous	1
Shakes like jelly. —Anonymous	2
Cease those aching sighs, Which shake the tear-drops from thine eyes, As morning wind, with wing fresh wet, Shakes dew out of the violet. —Philip James Bailey	3
Shake him up like a shirt in a hurricane. —J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms	4
Shakes like a tenant recreant. —Beaumont and Fletcher	5
Shakes with passion, like a horse shaking off a fly. —Jules Q. de Beaurepaire	6
Shake like withered leaves. —Alice Cary	7
Shake like a shadow. —Guido Cavalcanti	8
Head shaking like one of those drunken satyrs in the pictures of Rubens. —Alexandre Dumas, père	9
Shaken as if an earthquake passed. —Michael Field	10
Shaken as by a shudder. —Gustave Flaubert	11
Shaking like an ague. —William Harbington	12
Shaking as with the cold fit of the Roman fever. —Nathaniel Hawthorne	13
Shaking like pent up winds. —Robert Jephson	14
Tremulous shake, As in a palsied Druid’s harp unstrung. —John Keats	15
Shaken like a press of spears. —Dante Gabriel Rossetti	16
Shaked like a coward. —William Shakespeare	17
Shake like a field of beaten corn. —William Shakespeare	18
Shakes, like a thing unfirm. —William Shakespeare	19
Shaking … like a drunkard after a debauch. —Robert Louis Stevenson	20
Shakes like flame. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	21
Shaken like spray from the sea. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	22
Shake, As winds tall cedars toss on mountains hoar. —Torquato Tasso	23