" "Shake hands, Randolph!

In 1592 Robert Greene, a London poet, dramatist, and hack-writer, wrote: "There is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tyger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Iohannes fac-totum, is in his owne conceit the only Shake-scene in a countrie.

Now it had a couple of crazy windows cut crookedly into its sides and a stovepipe thrust up, also crookedly, through the shake roof, and was known as the McQuarry place.

Nature was before man with her anesthetics: the cat's first shake stupefies the mouse; the lion's first shake deadens the man's fear and feeling; and the crotalus paralyzes before he strikes.

For some reason unexplained to him he was separated from his company in one of the great shake-ups performed for the good of the army.

"If ye go on that way I'll take ye by the two shoulders an' shake yeit's all I can do now to keep me hands off o' ye!

Or if that semblance suit not every dale, Like a broad shake-fork with a slender steel Despiséd nature suit them once aright, Their body to their coat, both now misdight.

"It is a kind of familiar shaking-hands (or shaking of hands) with all the vices.

Cup or ring shake results from the pulling apart of two or more growth rings.