quake

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maanjäristys

täristä A tremble trembling or shake shaking.

We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by.

California is plagued by quakes; there are a few minor ones almost every month.

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She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize.

Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

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