Lexicographical Neighbors of Shakt
Literary usage of Shakt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, John F. Addington (1855)
"By my modesty, shakt. Cymbeline. (The jewel in my dower,) I would not wish Any
... shakt. Henry VI. Part III. This my mean task would be As heavy to me as ..."
2. Imperial Reference Library: Comprising a General Encylopædia (1898)
"shakt. Bold'en, . a. To moke bold; to embolden; to give confidence. ... shakt.
—Impudently; obtrusively; saucily. Hold'n ess, n. Quality of being bold; ..."
3. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"Now with his hand, now with his instrument He shakt and pluckt it, yet not forth
he went." Fairfax's Tasso. p. 209. ..."
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