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Sentences starting with shaking

Shaking his head, the valet took these articles of dress from the chest; but before he put them on his master, the latter sat down to have his hair and beard carefully arranged. [10]
Shaking himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went past the ladies into the little drawing room. [2]
Shaking fingers drew it out, wild eyes scanned it. [11]

Sentences ending with shaking

Let us see what Goble has left after his shaking. [9]
Iberville himself came up slowly, for he was stiff and his limbs were shaking. [11]
The sorrel was reeking, heaving, whistling, shaking. [13]
Why, bless me, if you are not shaking! [11]
Tull stopped in his tracks, with right hand raised and shaking. [13]
And how your hand and the instrument are shaking. [10]

Short sentences using shaking

With shaking arms Jane complied. [13]
Keep on shaking hands! [5]

Sentences containing shaking two or more times

The master caught the refractory youth by the collar and began shaking him, or rather shaking himself against him. [6]
If the old gentleman remonstrated by shaking the reins, the pony replied by shaking his head. [12]

More example sentences with the word shaking in them

There was a young man cordially and unconcernedly shaking hands with her father and Captain Lige. [9]
He had not yet recovered from the shaking up his system had sustained, and he took to a canvas easy chair he had brought with him and placed a decanter of Scotch and a tumbler of ice at his side. [9]
Some fifteen men with merry shouts were shaking down the high wattle wall of a shed, the roof of which had already been removed. [2]
Behind them again, with head shaking from one side to the other, travelled Macavoy; and they all marched away towards the Fort. [11]
As if on wings, he went from man to man, shaking hands with his comrades. [10]
She knew well why Havel had ridden on ahead without her permission, and shaking hands with the landlord and getting into the coach, she said hastily to her new coachman: "Lose not an instant. [11]
The priestesses--some of whom, with garlands on their flowing hair, were already shaking the sistrum of Isis--mingled with the line of priests, their high voices blending with the deep notes of the men. [10]
Only the man who had the next bed, a stout Uhlan, continued to sit on his bed, gloomily frowning and smoking a pipe, and little one-armed Tushin still listened, shaking his head disapprovingly. [2]
The old maid-servant, who had accompanied him from Portugal, entered at the same time, and watched his preparations, shaking her head. [10]
The younger men, who followed him, whispered among themselves, shaking their heads as though some miracle had been performed; and every eye that looked on him was radiant with enthusiastic veneration. [10]
There were jellies, which had been shaking, all the time the young folks were dancing in the next room, as if they were balancing to partners. [6]
In one tent, where a young mother was shaking with the chill of a severe attack of fever, Miriam asked the pallid Milcah to bring her medicine chest, and the desolate wife went on her errand with joyous alacrity. [10]
The birds suddenly were on every tree, glancing through the air, filling it with song, sometimes shaking raindrops from their wings. [4]
On Saturday she went to Lambeth, where she had the pleasure and honor of shaking hands with the Archbishop of Canterbury in his study, and of looking about the palace with Mrs. Benson. [6]
Good Mr. Ware went home, troubled in spirit, shaking his head. [9]
And by the way," he declared, shaking the envelope, "I never got a colder and more formal letter in my life. [9]
Now, Miss Sadler was going about among them in the school parlor saying good-by, sending particular remembrance to such of the fathers and mothers as she thought worthy of that honor; kissing some, shaking, hands with all. [9]
The old landlady was crying and moaning, and her husband was wiping his eyes and shaking his head sadly. [6]
A keen wind was blowing, and rushed against them fiercely: bleaching the hard ground, shaking the white frost from the trees and hedges, and whirling it away like dust. [12]
The shaking, the vehemence and anger, of Euphrasia seemed to have had no effect whatever on the main trend of his thoughts. [9]
Melissa observed only two soldiers, who were looking out of window, and whose bodies were shaking as though they were convulsed with profound merriment. [10]
Suddenly Mr. Carvel turned, shaking with a laughter he could not control, and strode into the private office the door slammed behind him. [9]
The old man turned on him, shaking his shaggy head. [11]
Or is it true," and he moved his hand as if shaking a dice-box. [10]
Perhaps some lover trod the way With shaking knees and leaping heart, --And so it often runs astray With sinuous sweep or sudden start. [6]
Mr. Wetherell began to wish he could witness the scene there, too, but something held him here, shaking with excitement, listening to each name that the clerk called. [9]
Slowly she walked to the window and looked out across the green grounds where the wind was shaking the wet trees, past the unfinished monument to the Father of her country, and across the broad Potomac to Alexandria in the hazy distance. [9]
Yesterday he said to me, shaking his head in a whimsical way, "But no treason, mademoiselle, and no heresy or schism. [11]
Presently she turned to Ingles and spoke to him quickly in a low voice; then, descending the steps, passed out through the lane made for her by the crowd, he following with shaking limbs and bowed bead. [11]
He went up to her, shaking his head, and said in the superior tone of a sage rebuking thoughtlessness: "Like all the rest of them--I repeat it. [10]
For a long time he walked the floor, trembling in body and shaking in spirit. [11]
For a little time he could hear the noises downstairs, and an occasional laugh; he could guess that now they were having cider, and now apples were going round; and he could feel the wind tugging at the house, even sometimes shaking the bed. [4]
From time to time also I saw Colonel Chouteau shaking with laughter. [9]
So I passed through the vacant streets, still seeing the town as it was, and not as it is, and recognizing and metaphorically shaking hands with a hundred familiar objects which no longer exist; and finally climbed Holiday's Hill to get a comprehensive view. [5]
The noise of this vocal performance awakened the other man, who, staggering upon deck and shaking his late opponent by the hand, swore that singing was his pride and joy and chief delight, and that he desired no better entertainment. [12]
The Member resented this unparliamentary treatment by jumping up from his chair and giving the small aggressor a good shaking, at the same time seizing the implement which had caused his wrath and breaking it into splinters. [6]
Presently one of them stepped out of the rank and said: "You don't know me, Mr. Twichell; but I know your daughter, and that gives me the privilege of shaking hands with you. [5]
Manners out of the room, frowning and shaking his fist at me in mock fierceness. [9]
She turned from the house and came nearer to the lake, shaking her head, as though compassionating the poor, folk who lived there. [11]
The shaking of the high grass told him of the running of animals, what species he could not tell, but from Ring's manifest desire to have a chase they were evidently some kind wilder than rabbits. [13]
He brushed off the dust with his coat-sleeve, and fondled it, shaking his head at it a little. [11]
For a while the doctor knelt there, shaking his head. [9]
Then he raised the brute's heavy head and kissed his dead eyes, and as it slipped from his hand and fell on the floor, he started to his feet, shaking his fist, and exclaiming: "Yes, you have poisoned him! [10]
Below him was that crowd of two dozen Socialists glaring up at him, shaking their fists at him, roaring imprecations and insulting epithets at him. [5]
Dust shrouded the sunset red of shaking rims; dust shrouded Tull as he fell on his knees with uplifted arms. [13]
I never had such a shaking up in my life. [5]
After a moment, standing with eyes fixed on the face of the crucified figure, he said, in a shaking voice: "Pardon, bon Jesu! [11]
From that accident sprang the Order of the Jesuits, and it has been shaking thrones, changing policies, and doing other tremendous work for two hundred years--and will go on. [5]
There was a sound,--a distant, prolonged note, bell-toned, pervading the woods, shaking the air in smooth vibrations. [4]
Sonya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran after Natasha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face and light, joyous steps. [2]
As he did so, Mary Callen, who had been listening inside the room with shaking frame and bursting heart, dropped on her knees beside the table, her head in her arms. [11]
The old, sweet smile was on his lips, and as he yet held the stem of the glass with a shaking hand, and suffered that I should help him, he cried in a clear voice: "Once more, Prosit, Elsie! [10]
Gaining the farther side of the canal, she perceived him flattened against the wall of the gatehouse shaking his fist in the faces of the intruders, who rushed past him unheeding. [9]
With shaking fingers she lighted the candle yet once more, after which she lighted a lamp standing upon the chest of drawers. [11]
In frantic haste she flew to the door but it was locked; no shaking, no screaming, no thumping seemed to reach the ears of the guard whom she heard monotonously walking up and down outside her prison. [10]
My knees were shaking so that I didn't know whether I could stand up. [5]
There was no shaking of hands. [11]
He listened intently, shaking his head now and then, but not a word out of him. [9]
When one is shaking between life and death, one thinks most of one's self. [11]
There he stood shaking and snorting, nor any persuasion would move him. [9]
I wonder what set it going," said Jowett, shaking his head ominously. [11]
Suddenly from the sergeant's lips there broke, in a high, shaking voice, to the rattle of the drum: "Conscrits, au pas; Ne pleurez pas; Ne pleurez pas; Marchez au pas, Au pas, au pas, au pas, au pas! [11]
When the ancients saw this happening they used to make a noise, shaking the sistrum with its metal rings, drumming and trumpeting, shouting and yelling, to scare off the evil one and drive him away. [10]
The old countess sat with a blissful yet sad smile and with tears in her eyes, occasionally shaking her head. [2]
Don't tell me'--said Sampson, shaking his head, and working with both his hands as if he were clearing away ten thousand cobwebs. [12]
The strong oak resisted his shaking and pulling. [10]
Do I not remember that glorious moment when the late Mr.---- we won't say who,--editor of the--we won't say what, offered me the sum of fifty cents per double-columned quarto page for shaking my young boughs over his foolscap apron? [6]
When the birds rejected a caterpillar, they plainly shewed, by shaking their heads, and cleansing their beaks, that they were disgusted by the taste. [1]
The panes were rattling in the little windows and his groom was shaking him. [2]
A large but rather spare man, with broad shoulders and a massive head, covered with chestnut curls which fell down upon his coat collar and which he had a habit of shaking as a lion is supposed to shake his mane. [5]
Gregory, in the pride of his first slaughter, sprang away towards the wounded leader, which, sunk to the earth, was shaking its great horns to and fro. [11]
Only once did Paula sob aloud; then she indignantly dried her tears, and sat for a long time gazing at the floor, shaking her pretty head again and again as though something unheard-of and incredible had befallen her. [10]
As for John Paul, who seemed my friend, he would say nothing, only to advise me privately that the man was queer company, shaking his head when I defended him. [9]
The accounts from Paris were accompanied by report after report from the rest of Germany, shaking the old structure of absolutism like the repeated shocks of a battering-ram. [10]
You never made one in your life, Tell me," I cried, shaking him until his teeth smote together, "was it not put up between you? [9]
In the ecstasy of this composition he had a way of shaking his head slowly from side to side, and when she looked up she saw his eyes burning, down at her. [9]
The crashing plunge of the ruined dome into the lake again would send a world of seething billows lashing against the shores and shaking the foundations of our perch. [5]
On the edge of the rapids, above the hotel, the old bath-house was in process of demolition, its shaking piazza almost overhanging the flood. [4]
At other sittings of the parliament, gentlemen of the Opposition, shaking their fists toward the President, addressed him as 'Polish Dog'. [5]
Upon a certain occasion, nine years ago, I had said, with strong feeling, 'If ever I see St. Louis again, I will seek out Mr. Brown, the great grain merchant, and ask of him the privilege of shaking him by the hand. [5]
The boat had now reached a point opposite the mudirieh, its stopping-place; and the raw- bone, reeking with sweat and blood, stood still and trembled, its knees shaking with the strain just taken off them, its head sunk nearly to the ground. [11]
The town did not seem safe; the bridges, the buildings on the edge of the precipices with their shaking casements, the islands, might at any moment be engulfed and disappear. [4]
While the soldiers noisily rose, some shaking hands with Zorrillo, some with Navarrete, the stately sergeant-major of a German lansquenet troop, which was stationed in Antwerp, and did not belong to the insurgents, entered the wide open door of the tent. [10]
This mystery was no dark cloud, it was a shaking, glittering mist, and yet there rose from it an air which made her pulse beat hard, her breath come with joyous lightness. [11]
I have felt myself weak and shaking when you came into the room. [11]
Then I fixed my eyes steadily on the open door and the shaking light, and presently it all came to me: the events of the night, and that I was now in a cell of the citadel. [11]
He listened without much show of attention, shaking his head from side to side. [9]
Madame Degardy never moved from her place, but stood shaking her head and muttering. [11]
For a few minutes he disappeared into a house whence came loud cries of suffering, and when he came out again, he walked on, shaking his head now and then, as a man who sees many things happen which his understanding fails to account for. [10]
For this would mean a disagreeable shaking up of their own lives. [9]
In haste she made herself ready, and went forth into the night with the messenger, her heart beating hard, a pitiful anxiety shaking her. [11]
As Charley stood looking round the workshop, Jo entered, shaking the snow from his moccasined feet. [11]
I lay a long time, peering into the darkness, and listening.--Then I heard a grating noise overhead, like the dragging of a heavy body across the floor; then the throwing down of the body, and the shaking of my windows in response to the concussion. [5]
He sat a long time, looking at the floor, and at intervals muttering to himself and nodding his head acquiescingly or shaking it in mild protest. [5]
The former was long in shaking off the effects of this illness. [14]
Parpon and the Little Chemist raised him to his feet, and held him, his shaking hands resting on their shoulders, his lank body tottering above and between them. [11]
Then, Mr Brass left off writing entirely, and, with his pen in his hand, hummed his very loudest; shaking his head meanwhile from side to side, like a man whose whole soul was in the music, and smiling in a manner quite seraphic. [12]
No, no,' added Kit, shaking his head sorrowfully, 'she'll never want me any more, and bless her, I hope she never may, though I should like to see her too! [12]
As to shaking it off, that cannot be. [14]
Huck's heart shot into his throat, but he swallowed it again; and then he stood there shaking as if a dozen agues had taken charge of him at once, and so weak that he thought he must surely fall to the ground. [5]

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