Yet it puts one into Hamlet’s vein to see a contemptible valet lay his hand with impunity on the armed shoulder, shaking the joints that once belted the soul of a Visconti!
He was carried to-day by four men in a very splendid sedan, shaking from side to side with the motion, preceded by one of the bands of music from the English regiments.
While he was shaking himself he shook so fast that he looked as if he were standing in a white mist.
And they were so relieved that they were going to slip off as quietly as they could, touching their hats meekly to everybody, but Barty could not help shaking hands with the captain just to encourage him a little.
When the shaking was over, and the lions and tigers laid the robbers on the ground again, they did look queer.
I might have been earlier but that we ran foul of Waldemar and the Apaches again, and I had to lose time in shaking them off.
But through it all Narkom sat there squeezing his hands together and laughing in little shaking gusts that had a heart throb wavering through them; for to him this could mean but one thing.
Why, you are as pale as a ghost, you young beggar, and shaking like a leaf.
She thought him fatigued with the exertion he had made, and allowed him to rest, while she contemplated with pleasure even the slight advances which he had already made in shaking off the traces of illness.
Grandmamma returned to announce Alexander and Willy, who soon followed her, and after shaking hands, stood silent, much shocked at the alteration in Fred's appearance.
When Alexander had succeeded in making his exit, Henrietta beheld him shaking hands with a figure not quite his own height, and in its rough great-coat not unlike a small species of bear.
Shaking his head vigorously, he pointed to the stone image, signifying that there were to be no more salutations bestowed upon it, all homage being due to himself and the lady.
She was on the point of telling him that Hugh was not her brother, but something checked the impulse and she could only answer by shaking her head.
For, shaking him with the embrace of a playful bear, was his old friend McLane Woods--his chum at Princeton.
Sorry you were not along this morning," said the newcomer, shaking Ridgeway's hand.
But he was deaf, and went headlong, shaking his clenched fists high, high in the air.
With this he snatched up his small crucifix and held it out at her, astonished, and the candle in the other hand, both crucifix and candle shaking violently.
Then horror fell on me, and I rose, but stood rooted there, shaking from head to foot.
Denys, but Gerard stood shaking from head to foot, useless.
What," he gasped, shaking over her, "and is it thou?
That is just what the devil has been whispering in mine ear this while," said the monk, putting one hand behind his back and shaking his finger half threateningly, half playfully, at Gerard.
Times are changed, my lads, since we two sat shaking in the cold awaiting you seven to come and cut our throats.
Gerard, rising furiously, and shaking his fist after the friar.
He was just dropping off, when he was awaked by a noise; and lo there was the hind remorselessly shaking and waking guest after guest, to ask him whether it was he who had picked up the mistress's feathers.
Jorian stood awe-struck, the candle shaking in his hand.
His cheeks and his lips grew pale; his knees trembled; and, with a shaking hand, he raised the candle from the table, and advanced towards the door.
But the lead danced on smooth rock, where the anchors trailed as readily as over ice; the captain had them both up again, but that took longer than letting them go, and meanwhile half the hands were aloft shaking out sail once more.
You're all right, you see, so you can go on shaking your head till you loosen it!
I think, sir, you really must be mistaken," replied the manager, shaking his head.
And at almost every cottage door mothers might be seen with their infants in their arms, or old men and women shaking their heads sadly, and whispering to one another.
I'm afraid not," said O'Donnell, shaking his head.
Ah," said Lavirotte, shaking his head grimly, "the treacle period has passed.
The sight of your dead body would be better for me than those shaking limbs and that craven face.
I'll see you--" cried Scarrow, shaking his mouth clear.
The little Marquis was on his feet in a moment, and, shaking hands with her effusively, he promised to call to see them at the Shelbourne.
You may be shaking Dyas's hand and find it's Hatton's.
More rarely he would turn on her with a face which rage made inhuman, a face that she did not know, and with a shaking hand he would bid her go--go, and leave the room!
The fire had died down in him, he was no more now than a feeble, shaking old man.
Whether this start gave the Protectionists a fillip or no, they were in great spirits, and Mottisfont was up and down shaking hands all the morning.
He wiped his brow with a shaking hand, while his eyes, avoiding hers, continued to look about him as if he sought something.
The blood ebbed and left Mary pale; it returned in a flood as with a bounding heart and shaking fingers she read and turned and re-read this letter.
Toft stretched out a shaking arm towards the paper.
Instead she thought of his shaking hand and his pale face, and of the courage that had grown firmer in the face of opposition; and she found something fine in that, something that appealed to her.
She was trying with shaking fingers to put up her hair.
He stumbled to the door and went out, a queer, gibbering, shaking figure; and Basset had no doubt at such moments that he was mad.
I suppose it was five minutes after, he came out to me--I was in the kitchen getting our breakfast--and he was shaking all over.
My cottage looks so pretty outside," said silly little Matty, shaking her fair locks, "that I almost think it would do without any furnishing at all.
Fort William Henry, at the lower end of Lake George, is memorable as the locality of one of the most nerve-shaking examples of Indian treachery and barbarity, a scene which Cooper's fruitful pen has brought well within the kingdom of romance.
Good-bye," said Jeanne, shaking hands with him as in duty bound.
You must have found our shells pretty warm," said Grant shaking his hands.
Shaking her finger at the girl with pretended playfulness she reentered Dick's room leaving Jeanne full of misery.
I am not so weak that she could make me sign that paper," cried Dick, his pale face and shaking hands belying his assertion.
On the morning of the third day she was rudely awakened by some one shaking her.
Shaking himself free from their clinging hands he fired two shots in the direction that Dick Vance had taken.
With a quick motion she drew the stars and stripes from her bosom and shaking out its folds began earnestly: "'Oh!
She was awakened by a wrangle and then--but let her tell it: "Then I saw a couple of poilus sticking their heads in our window shaking a beret and asking for contributions to help them enjoy their week's leave of absence in Paris.
I was not to be balked, and we all rose and after shaking hands around, the colonel led us out.
We noticed him waving his hands and shaking his head.
As they advanced, the rumbling beneath them seemed to increase, shaking the cliff to its foundation.
Meanwhile the shocks became every moment more frequent, the ground shaking as if beneath the tramp of armed horsemen.
Pinky had soared up from his blankets; was lovingly shaking Milt's hand.
It had one bed, one table, one dissipated bureau, two straight bare chairs, and one venerable lithograph depicting a girl with ringlets shaking her irritating forefinger at a high-church kitten.
Shaking himself out of the spell of those contemptuous eyes Milt opened his brochure, studied the chart, and in a footnote found, "Never wear velvet collars or cuffs with evening coat.
That cautious leader would be certain, he thought, to beat a retreat towards the Rhine as soon as his rear was threatened; and Napoleon pictured France rising as in 1793, shaking off her invaders and dictating a glorious peace.
The example of the Spaniards was everywhere to be followed, and, if Austria sent forth her legions on the Danube and England helped in Hanover, there seemed some prospect of shaking off the Napoleonic yoke.
Shaking off the fatigue of a twelve hours' march from Brussels under a burning sun, they steadily moved down through the tall crops of rye towards the farm and beat off a fierce attack of Piré's horsemen.
De debbil, his best friend, knows better dan your poor ole black mammy," said Dinah, shaking her head.
Old Hugh pointed to the door with a shaking finger.
But just at that moment of his fancied security, old Dinah, in Golden's deserted chamber, was vigorously shaking her empty night-dress in a dazed attempt to evolve from its snowy folds the strangely missing girl.
There she sat down on a doorstep and, half-crazed by the horror of her sudden downfall, laced her shoes and buttoned her blouse and put on her hat with fumbling, shaking fingers.
His shaking hand reached out eagerly and his expectant lips quivered.
She began to revive, like a sleepershaking off drowsiness and the spell of a bad dream and looking forward to the new day.
His hand was shaking so that the match almost dropped from his fingers.
He fell back shaking so violently that his cigarette dropped to the sheet.
An instant and she drew away, shaking and panting.
She shook her head, lifted it high like a swimmer shaking off a wave.
And ere I could well reply, I found myself shaking hands with every one, and every one with me; nor was the least pleasurable part of this recognition the satisfaction displayed by the Rittmeister at the good issue of this event.
I know," said she, shaking her head and laughing, with a sort of wicked drollery.
At last, poor Blondel, blown and wearied, turned abruptly into the middle of the ring, and with panting sides and shaking tail came to a dead halt.
If in sportive levity it chanced to fall, he would instantly wheel about and seize it, and then, whisking his tail and shaking his long forelock, resume his course again.
I don't think that he said this in actual words, but his terrified eyes and his shaking cheeks declared it.
The maddened beast shaking his head with a roar rushed upon Sam like a thunderbolt, driving him towards the side of the yard.
Frank looked at him all the time with a quiet smile, and in the end the Doctor said-- "Allow me the privilege of shaking hands with you, sir.
Charles Hawker went up to the Sergeant, with a livid face and shaking hands; "Will you tell me again, Robinson, ARE THEY ALL DEAD?
Rover, after showing his teeth and shaking himself, came to Sam as fresh as a daisy; and the new comer pocketed his five pounds.
There, leaning against the glass, his face buried in his hands, and his broad back shaking with emotion, stood Doctor Mulhaus.
Now and then he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din, and, above all, he could hear the continuous earth-shaking thunder of the surf upon the beach.
In one moment we were standing face to face, shaking one another by both hands; in another, we were arm in arm, walking through the quiet streets towards Jim's lodgings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shaking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
