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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Shook
 
  Shook like a strong oak in a blast.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Shook it like a terrier with a rat.
            —Thomas Hood		  2
  Shook as one that looks on death.
            —Jean Ingelow		  3
Like bullrushes on side of brook,
Or aspen leaf, her joints all shook.
            —William King		  4
  Shook like windy weeds.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  5
  Shook like custards.
            —Ouida		  6
  Shook as the quivering plumes upon the hearse.
            —Edgar Allan Poe		  7
  Shook like a spied spy.
            —Edgar Allan Poe		  8
  Shook … like cold jelly.
            —Charles Reade		  9
  Shook like an autumn leaf.
            —Dante Gabriel Rossetti		  10
  Shook … like shingle at the ocean’s mercy.
            —John Ruskin		  11
  Shook, like reeds beside a frozen brook.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  12
  Shook, like the Aspen leaves in the wind.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  13
  Shook like a palsied limb.
            —Robert Southey		  14
  Shook like loosened music.
            —Francis Thompson		  15
  Her waving hair shook like music.
            —Francis Thompson		  16
  Shook like a poppy-field.
            —Walter Thornbury		  17
Shook, as the blackbird’s throat
With its last big note.
            —Oscar Wilde		  18
 
 
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