Read full poem →The awful Sign of his supream command.
At whose dread Whisk Virgil himself does quake,
And Horace patiently its stroke does take,
Dictionary Entry
A trembling or shaking.
In a Sentence
“We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “quake”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Through the pregnant universe rumbles life’s terrific thunder,
And Earth’s bowels quake with terror; strange and terrible storms break,
Lightning-torches flame the heavens, kindling souls of men, thereunder:
Read full poem →To foot those fields of ne'er-profaned snow?
I, with heart-quake,
Dreaming or thinking of that realm of Love,
Read full poem →And eft did sing of wars and deadly dreed
So as the heavens did quake his verse to hear.
Read full poem →And threatned unto him the dreaded name 380
Of Hecate[*]: whereat he gan to quake,
And lifting up his lumpish head, with blame
Read full poem →In prayers and flattering speeches I court God:
Tomorrow I quake with true fear of his rod.
So my devout fits come and go away
Read full poem →And een repressed the laugh or smile--
Quake with the ague chills of fear,
And tremble though they love to hear;
Read full poem →Not a twig is seen to shake,
Nor the smallest bent to quake;
From the river’s muddy side
Read full poem →In prayers and flattering speeches I court God:
Tomorrow I quake with true fear of his rod.
So my devout fits come and go away
Read full poem →Warlocks and witches,
Ye’ll quake at his conjuring hammer,
Ye midnight bitches.