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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