Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Shake
Shake like an aspen leaf.
—Anonymous
Shakes like jelly.
—Anonymous
Cease those aching sighs,
Which shake the tear-drops from thine eyes,
As morning wind, with wing fresh wet,
Shakes dew out of the violet.
—Philip James Bailey
Shake him up like a shirt in a hurricane.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms
Shakes like a tenant recreant.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Shakes with passion, like a horse shaking off a fly.
—Jules Q. de Beaurepaire
Shake like withered leaves.
—Alice Cary
Shake like a shadow.
—Guido Cavalcanti
Head shaking like one of those drunken satyrs in the pictures of Rubens.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
Shaken as if an earthquake passed.
—Michael Field
Shaken as by a shudder.
—Gustave Flaubert
Shaking like an ague.
—William Harbington
Shaking as with the cold fit of the Roman fever.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shaking like pent up winds.
—Robert Jephson
Tremulous shake,
As in a palsied Druid’s harp unstrung.
—John Keats
Shaken like a press of spears.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Shaked like a coward.
—William Shakespeare
Shake like a field of beaten corn.
—William Shakespeare
Shakes, like a thing unfirm.
—William Shakespeare
Shaking … like a drunkard after a debauch.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
Shakes like flame.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Shaken like spray from the sea.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Shake,
As winds tall cedars toss on mountains hoar.
—Torquato Tasso