EditorialSpring-heeled Jack, the terror of London. As Spring-heeled Jack appeared a terrific explosion shook the building." Spring-heeled Jack is an entity in English folklore of the Victorian era who was known for his startling hops. He was described by people...
EditorialTHE CHAPLIAN OF THE FLEET, DRAWN BY CHARLES GREEN, 1881; He sat down in his wooden arm-chair, and shook his great fore-finger in visitor's face.
EditorialKIT, A MEMORY; BY JAMES PAYN: Three of these iron uprights he shook lightly; each of them in time yielded, and passing them through the holes in the bar that formed their cross support he laid them on the margin of the flower-bed.
EditorialCharles Dickens, Dombey and Son. 1846,1847,1848, WHEN THE DOCTOR SMILED AUSPICIOUSLY AT HIS AUTHOR, OR KNIT HIS BROWS, OR SHOOK HIS HEAD AND MADE WRY FACES AT HIM, AS MUCH AS TO SAY, DON'T TELL ME, SIR ; I KNOW BETTER,' IT WAS TERRIFIC.