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Sentences ending with shaken

But her courage was not to be lightly shaken. [9]
It is perhaps too much to say that her complacency was shaken. [9]
And now--now--" The thought of the bridge, of Marchand's devilish design, shot into his mind, and once more he was shaken. [11]
Inwardly, I was shaken. [9]
Please Heaven, she said to herself, no one should see that her equanimity was shaken. [11]
As the eyes of the two men met both started, but Captain Debney was most shaken. [11]
But the sense of security has been subtly and indefinably shaken. [9]
Your faith is not shaken. [13]
For a moment he was shaken. [11]
On the other hand, their regard for the Prince of Prussia, afterward Emperor William, was already shaken. [10]

Short sentences using shaken

His faith has been shaken. [10]

More example sentences with the word shaken in them

Though shaken and worn, it was a figure which had no affinity with death. [11]
For him, the world had become awry; he abhorred divorce, and that this modern abomination had touched the house of Chiltern was a calamity that had shaken the very foundations of his soul. [9]
He was shaken with fear, for he saw the old man's design. [11]
My old friend, whose beard had been shaken in many a tempest, knew too well that there is cause enough for anxiety. [6]
There were times when Jim's nerves were shaken in his struggle against the unseen foe, and he had spoken to her querulously, almost sharply. [11]
The man who, when drunk, beat his wife till the blood came, and committed plenty of cruel deeds, trembled, wept, and could even pray with fervent piety, when--which often happened--the frail little creature, shaken by convulsions, seemed at the point of death. [10]
Daylight saw him, wet, haggard, broken, looking out over the waste of shaken water. [11]
Mingled with these were occasional remarks of skeptics shaken, in human fashion, by the suggestion of the inevitable end that never fails to sober and terrify humanity. [9]
But moral trials were ceasing to appeal to people, and more and more of them were refusing to be shaken down. [9]
I know very well there is here no part of the Herbert whose hand I had shaken at the Commencement parting; but it is an astonishing reproduction of him,--a material likeness; and now for the spiritual. [4]
On the whole, we say that people get shaken into their right places, and the predetermined vocation is often a mistake. [4]
Romance indeed it was; so remarkable that the master-musician might easily have found a theme for a comedy--or tragedy--and the philosopher would have shaken his head at the defiance it offered to the logic of things. [11]
When their cage was shaken, they would lift their heads and spring their rattles; but the sound was by no means so formidable to listen to as when it reverberated among the chasms of the echoing rocks. [6]
What they said was lost to us, but I could distinguish the woman's voice, low-pitched and vibrant as though insisting upon a refusal, and the man's scarce adult tones, now high as though with balked passion, now shaken and imploring. [9]
No, for there was a vast contempt in his gaze now, and he had had no contempt for the Southerners, and would have shaken hands with any of them the moment the battle was over. [9]
The stranger having warmly shaken Parpon by the hand and again whispered in his ear, stepped forward. [11]
And when I told my dreams, Shaken and humble,--"Dear, there was no cause," Your words; proud, sorrowful, as it beseems Such as thou art. [11]
It was close to the wrath that had first shaken her in the beginning of this war waged upon her. [13]
His being seemed to expand suddenly to an enormity of chaos and then as suddenly to shrink, dwindle, and fall back into a smother--as though, in falling, blankets were drawn roughly over his head and a thousand others were shaken in the air around him. [11]
Opposed to both these parties is the ultramontane, the head of which is the Romish hierarchy, and the body of which is the inert mass of ignorant peasantry, over whom the influence of the clergy seems little shaken by any of the modern moral earthquakes. [4]
They have braved the storms and sieges of three thousand years, and have been shaken by many an earthquake, but still they stand. [5]
We may cast the old man from us, and believe we have shaken ourselves free, when lo! [10]
The events of the last few hours had moved him deeply, and shaken his confidence in his unerring judgment of men and things. [10]
The dresses of the ladies were stained and soiled with dust and damp, but otherwise they seemed little the worse for the adventure, save that Mrs. Llyn was shaken, and her face was pale. [11]
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil had shaken its fruit into her lap, and, without any serpent to tempt her, she took thereof and did eat. [6]
Once, earlier in the evening, he had recognised me and smiled faintly, but I had shaken my head, and he had said nothing. [11]
The events of the day had shaken this man's soul to the foundations. [10]
When they heard that the lion had roused and shaken himself and had unaccountably come forth of his own accord, they hastened to the state capital to renew their offers. [9]
I should think that some sediment had been shaken up in it. [6]
Others, to whom such weakness seems inconceivable, will find their scepticism shaken, if not removed, by the calm, judicial statement of the Report drawn up for the Royal Academy. [6]
This was the substance of Susan's testimony, which was not shaken in the least by severe cross-examination. [5]
The shaken figure straightened itself, and the water was gulped down. [11]
Then he suddenly started, staggered backwards, uttered a loud choking, gurgling, nameless cry, and fell back on the floor like a mass of rock shaken from its foundations by an earthquake. [10]
Only when the soul is so deeply shaken, as with Melissa and her brother, matters go more slowly, even with the young. [10]
Houses the most solid were shaken and crippled, and those which were much extended in a variety of adventures were put to their wits' ends to escape shipwreck. [4]
And the long sobs by which his frame was shaken awed our very souls. [9]
As he did so, he was conscious of a curious coldness, even of dampness, in the hand which had shaken that of Mallow. [11]
At home I slept on a bundle of straw, and very uncomfortable it was when I was shaken by the fever. [10]
Trembling in every slender limb, shaken with grief, and overwhelmed with sorrow, the slight shepherdess stood before him, and he felt as if he must help her. [10]
Isaac Worthington was silent for a while: he was striving to calm himself, for an indefinable something had shaken him. [9]
And then, suddenly, she was clinging to me, her courage gone, her breast shaken with sobs. [9]
How often had she shaken her head in perplexed unbelief when she heard life spoken of as a vale of sorrows, and the lot of man bewailed as lamentable. [10]
Lifting her eyes she saw--ashen, shaken, stricken-- not the Bishop but the man! [13]
On the instant she felt so weak and shaken and lonely that she wanted to lean upon some one stronger than herself; as she used to lean against her father, while he sat with one arm round her studying his railway problems. [11]
But Lise, though shaken, had not capitulated..... [9]
Again she was shaken with laughter, and suddenly to my surprise she turned and looked full at me. [9]
Till now the shaken soul has been living in a dream; but now that the fever has passed away, she will soon be herself again. [10]
Paaker's deed had shaken his friendly confidence, and in his petition for peace the Cheta prince had intimated that Rameses might find much in his household to be set to rights--perhaps with a strong hand. [10]
He had, however, shaken himself free of this modest vision. [11]
Whether I had shaken him, disappointed him, or gained his reluctant approval I could not tell. [9]
Many chimneys were shaken down, and all the houses were so racked that the town had to be rebuilt. [5]
As he brooded, shaken and weak and bitter--all his thoughts were bitter now--a flash of scarlet, a glint of white plumes crossed his line of vision, disappeared, then again came into view, and horses' hoofs rang out on the hard road below. [11]
Even the Arabs, seeing the strong man shaken with sobs and learning the cause of his grief, respectfully withdrew; for the anguish of a son at the loss of his mother was sacred in their eyes. [10]
She had half recovered consciousness several times, and as these thoughts had come over her, her returning lucidity had vanished and a fresh attack of fever had shaken her. [10]
Now--but here Barbara's quiet observation suddenly ended; the air was shaken by the roar of cannon from the bastions of the citadel, and the signals of the warders' horns blended with the thunder of the artillery. [10]
This expression in Princess Mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to be shaken in her determination. [2]
Is that irresistible power, which for fifty years has shaken the government and agitated the people, to be stifled and subdued by pretending that it is an exceedingly simple thing, and we ought not to talk about it? [7]
Memory reproduced the picture of the mother standing just where the daughter now stood, Carmen quiet and well in hand, and himself all shaken with weakness, and with all power gone out of him-- even the power which rage and a murderous soul give. [11]
The patient still persists in sitting with his mouth stretched open to its widest limit, waiting for the operation to begin, and will only close the orifice when he is well shaken and shown the tooth. [4]
He had made, perhaps, his greatest impression when I had shaken his hand in parting. [9]
Shaken, she went on through several streets to find herself at length confronted by a pair of shabby doors that looked familiar, and pushing one of them open, baited at the bottom of a stairway to listen. [9]
But he was on the monster's neck now, and soon he should set his heel on it: he was not to be shaken off. [11]
I went there often, afterward, meaning to see the rest of the gallery, but the Turner spell was too strong; it could not be shaken off. [5]
And all sorts of unexpected and unheard-of things, which had lain unseen during our national life of fourscore years, came up and are coming up daily, shaken from their bed by the concussions of the artillery bellowing around us. [6]
The rapid tramp of the soldiers was echoed loudly back from the houses through the silence of the night, and the vibration of the air, shaken by the beating of the drums, made the panes rattle. [10]
Tom's whole structure of faith was shaken to its foundations. [5]
And--no, Gorgias was not mistaken-the slender frame of the lovely woman, whose exuberant vivacity had so often borne him and others away with it, trembled as if shaken by deep and painful emotion. [10]
But he could not help feeling as if Nature had been a good deal shaken by the Declaration of Independence, and that American art was getting to be rather too much for her,--especially as illustrated in his own practice. [3]
Three days and nights of toil and hunger in the cave were not to be shaken off at once, as Tom and Becky soon discovered. [5]
I doubt not my cousin had the facts straight enough when he rose from the breakfast table at home; but by the time he reached the rectory they were shaken up like so many parts of a puzzle in a bag, and past all straightening. [9]
The Great Fire must have crackled very loud in their stony ears, and they must have shaken day and night, as the bodies of the victims of the Plague were rattled over the pavements. [6]
Many a moralist, Mr. Davitt included, would have shaken his head at this. [9]
Even in his moments of crisis, in his hours of real tragedy, in the times when he was shaken to the centre, Jean Jacques fancied himself more than a little. [11]
We had parched meal, excellent good, sodd [cooked] beans, which eat as sweet as filbert kernels, in a manner, strawberries; and mulberries were shaken off the tree, dropping on our heads as we sat. [4]
During his brief matrimonial experience with her, he nearly died for want of breath--or rather the life was nearly shaken out of him. [9]
To her excellent master, at least, the Elixir of Truth proved fatal all too soon; the intense excitement of that night had shaken him so cruelly that before the day dawned the feeble flame of his life had flickered out. [10]
And this indelible mark of the crime which she had witnessed brought the image of the wounded Aurelius before her: just as he now lay, shaken with fever, so had she seen her lover a few days before. [10]
Across the rough mantel-shelf was draped the French tricolor, and before the fireplace on the puncheons lay a huge bearskin which undoubtedly had not been shaken for a year. [9]
He told how Louise was too shaken and ill to attempt the journey back to Tralee, and how they had camped where they were, near the dead horse. [11]
The fat man looked at him, pressed his lips, wrote down the number, shaken all the while with a disturbance which promised to lead to another explosion. [9]
If we ourselves live in fulness of content, it is well to be reminded that thousands of our fellow-creatures undergo a different lot; it is well to have sleepy sympathies excited, and lethargic selfishness shaken up. [14]
The sweet contralto, like the ringdove's coo, Thrilled it with brooding, fond, caressing tones, And the pale minstrel's passion lived again, Tearful and trembling as a dewy rose The wind has shaken till it fills the air With light and fragrance. [6]
Her mother appeared like one shaken with an ague fit. [5]
On the bed lay a form --covered with a sheet, and beside it a woman kneeling, shaken by sobs, ceaselessly calling a name . [9]
Excited by Parpon's last words at the hotel, he had followed, and was keen to chase this strange journeying to the end, though suffering from the wound in his head, and shaken by the awful accident of the evening. [11]
But old Dr. Kittredge had shaken his head, and told them to bear with her, and let her have her way as much as they could, but watch her, as far as possible, without making her suspicious of them. [6]
So we must keep the doctors awake by telling them that they have not yet shaken off astrology and the doctrine of signatures, as is shown by the form of their prescriptions, and their use of nitrate of silver, which turns epileptics into Ethiopians. [6]
But with all its injustice, with all its surrender of personal liberty, it seeks to call the attention of the world to certain hideous wrongs, to which the world is likely to continue selfishly indifferent unless rudely shaken out of its sense of security. [4]
When Euryale looked into the room, she found Melissa still upon her knees, her young frame shaken as with fever. [10]
I had got into subtler methods, reached more intimate understandings, had come to a place where analysis of character had shaken itself free--but certainly not quite free--from a natural yet rather dangerous eloquence. [11]
At the very instant when it seemed the panting flesh and blood would be shaken off by the granite force repelling it, the fingers, like long antennae, touched horns of rock jutting out from ledges on the third escarpment of the wall. [11]
Adrian Fellowes had injured them both through the same woman, had shaken, if not shattered, the fabric of their lives. [11]
Must they begin in blind faith, then be plunged into the darkness of disillusion, shaken by the storm of emotion, taste the sting in the fruit of the tree of knowledge--and go on again the same, yet not the same? [11]
I dare say, if Carmen had heard that explanation, and seen Margaret's tearful, happy acceptance of it, she would have shaken her pretty head and said, "They are getting too worldly for me. [4]
Only remember this,--that, if a bushel of potatoes is shaken in a market-cart without springs to it, the small potatoes always get to the bottom. [6]
The remark increased his uneasiness, for he recognized in it a sure symptom of disease--a relapse into what might almost have been called levity, blindness to the supreme tragedy of her life which but a moment before had shaken and appalled her. [9]
The prop of his pride seemed shaken beyond recovery. [11]
His hands trembled, his body was shaken, as by a spasm. [9]
My confidence in her human-beingship is getting shaken, my confidence in her godship is stiffening. [5]
Virginia had bowed her head an her hands, and he saw her shoulders shaken by a sob. [9]

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