Careful Words

shakes (?.)

Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,—

The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 684.

Incens'd with indignation Satan stood

Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd

That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge

In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair

Shakes pestilence and war.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 707.