At the moment of the quake (11h. 26m. A.M.)

"Thou makest my poor stomach quake with joy for what thou tellest me so sweetly.

Lilies come up out of fern beds, columbine swings over meadowsweet, white rein-orchids quake in the leaning grass.

The brass pieces on their right began blazing away with the heavy iron cannon down toward the river, which with the rattling of small arms almost made the ground quake under their feet.

He proceeded to whisper some words in the ears of the landlord, which caused him to start and quake with dread.

An English judgeGervaise Bennetgave them this name at Derby, and it is said that he did so because Fox "bid them quake at the word of the Lord."

Yet therein now doth lodge a noble peer, 145 Great Englands glory and the worlds wide wonder, Whose dreadfull name late through all Spaine did thunder, And Hercules two pillors standing neere Did make to quake and feare.

[Sidenote: such busines as the bitter day] Would quake to looke on.

The very hint of this put us again in a quake, and now, the snow beginning to fall pretty heavily, we went into the shed to cast about as to what on earth we should do next.

From "Songs of Cheer." BRAVE LIFE To be absolutely without physical fear may not be the highest courage; to shrink and quake, and yet stand at one's post, may be braver still.

To my astonishment, it seemed now to come from behind me, and I whipped 'round, with a hideous quake of fear.

My heart will not endure to handle it, The sight hereof doth make me quake for feare, Mer.

The very rafters of the howses bend; Some breake and are demolisht; barnes blowne downe; The very chimneyes rattle ore our heads; The strongest buildinges tremble just as if Theire is above a tempest, so belowe There weare a fearefull earth-quake.

And with your likeness to the gods, poor fool, Ere long be sure your poor sick heart will quake!

[Written in the night of the 17th and 18th of June, as I lay, severely wounded and helpless in a wood, expecting to die.] "My deep wound burns;my pale lips quake in death, I feel my fainting heart resign its strife, And reaching now the limit of my life, Lord, to thy will I yield my parting breath!

The valleys quake with a breathless fear, When I hurl in wrath my icy spear And shake my locks of snow!

The sides glow and swell from the increasing heat, and the iron arms of the machinery tremble and quake with the pent-up and rapidly accumulating forces, running unseen to and fro, only too ready to lend a helping handat anything.

Thus the sounding of the Clock in 'Venice Preserved', makes the Hearts of the whole Audience quake; and conveys a stronger Terror to the Mind than it is possible for Words to do.

Sir, And clasp her, and embrace her; and (would she Now go with me) bear her through all her Race, Her Father, Brethren, and her Uncles, arm'd, And all their Nephews, though they stood a wood Of Pikes, and wall of Canon: kiss me Gertrude, Quake not, but kiss me.

"Yes, I do," replied Keith stoutly, but his heart began to quake at the thought that the cherished volume was going to be denied him.

When George was told that he was grown as formerly related, he saved his money and when the great earth quake in Charleston occured he went down there to see what it had done to the place.

At the bare thought we all quake.

XENIEN, the name, derived from Martial, of a series of stinging epigrams issued at one time by Goethe and Schiller, which created a great sensation and gave offence to many, causing "the solemn empire of dulness to quake from end to end.

A fever burns me, Phaon; 5 My knees quake on the threshold, And all my strength is loosened, Slack with disappointment.

Now could I drink hot blood, and do such bitter business as the day would quake to look on! Ghost (entering abruptly).