With ravished ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres.

-Dryden,John
  Alexander's Feast, l.42^6.

Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.

-Pope, Alexander
  The Rape of the Lock, canto1, l.15^16.

War is a condition of progress; the whip-cut that prevents a country from going to sleep and forces satisfied mediocrity to shake off its apathy.

-Renan, (Joseph) Ernest
La Re¤  forme intellectuelle et morale.

It is easyöterribly easyöto shake a man's faith in himself.Totakeadvantage ofthattobreak a man'sspirit is devil's work.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Morell to Marchbanks. Candida, act1.