At twelve o'clock, five of near-Broadway's best breed, in woolly anklets and wristlets and a great shaking of curls, execute the poodle-prance to half the encores of other days.

True, they would never choose an alien to do the humbling, and the possibility was discussed with various head-shakings amongst themselves.

He threw both hands into the air, where they engaged in rapid horizontal shakings from his pliant wrists, and in hushed gutturals exclaimed, "My God, my God!"

And there went a shaking in the aether of the World, because of the sudden emotion of so mighty a Multitude; and lo!