The quality of the soil used is more important than the quaky of the press. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
"Because it's a machine and because it says the same thing ov'r and over," Rose said in a quaky voice. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
Many churches were there, and tall half-baked-looking public edifices, that had a dry, uncomfortable, earth-quaky look, to my idea. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo] Reference
Meanwhile, quaky venture capitalists called other pet-preneurs into the conference room to prove that they could survive in an Amazon-dominated space. From Wordnik.com. [Amazon's Pet Projects] Reference
If they're correct, if Sirius has a second sister that astronomers don't know about, if there is a Sirius C, then the quaking custard we call reality is a very quaky custard, indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas]
Accompanied by often quaky narration by real police, "Top Cops" and "Secret Service" re-create two or three true tales of police bravery or masterly detective work in one 60-minute episode. From Wordnik.com. [Television's Cop Connection] Reference
And I don't know whether you remember, Steve, but my voice was a little quaky and a little nervous when I thought, gosh, our barge, which was an open-sided barge, seemed a little low in the water. From Wordnik.com. [70 Dead After Boats Capsize On Congo's Rivers] Reference
You climbed a fence out of the woods and the trail was hard in the sun across the field with cropped grass and sheep sorrel and mullen growing and to the left the quaky bog of the creek bottom where the killdeer plover fed. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Stories] Reference
This may shape up to be a contest between an upcoming progressive and a quaky relic from the old Dem machine which sold out progressive values to try to control how the pipeline contract benefits were parceled out in the mid-70s to mid-80s. From Wordnik.com. [GOP Rep. Don Young Has New Dem Challenger] Reference
"Like treading among the stars," he said, with a quaky laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Sons and Lovers] Reference
This is quaky ground, but I know where I am, and I am not afraid. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
Four more reports / essays shed light on the quaky waters holding -- or breaking. From Wordnik.com. [Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en]] Reference
"I am a bit -- quaky," replied the boy, and would have admitted as much to no other man, and to few women. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea] Reference
Presently I saw someone coming towards me mounted on a jolly fine horse, and I felt quaky from my hat right down to my boots. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventurous Seven Their Hazardous Undertaking] Reference
Eucalyptus (tangy toke-leaf desert tree), Cottonwood/Aspen (shaky quaky spadeleaf watertree) and others as determined by experts. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
Bonus complication: I'm socially phobic and even the thought of calling to make an appointment sometime in the upcoming days makes me nauseous and quaky. From Wordnik.com. [Ask MetaFilter] Reference
Poor old Twoshoes is so old and toothless and quaky, that she can't sing a bit; but don't be giving yourself airs over her, because she can't sing and you can. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
However, I was now irretrievably in for it; there was no possibility of backing out, had I been ever so inclined -- but I was not; I would have died first -- so pulling myself together, and conquering by a strong effort a curious quaky sensation which had for a moment oppressed me, I set out upon my journey. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War] Reference
Poor old Twoshoes is so old and toothless and quaky, that she can’t sing a bit; but don’t be giving yourself airs over her, because she can’t sing and you can. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
"I suppose," said Dinah at last, after a long silence in which the only noise was the sound of Kiki's beak scraping against the bottom of one of the pineapple tins, "I suppose we had better set out as soon as it's dark " but I do feel quaky about it!". From Wordnik.com. [The Sea of Adventure]
Ducks are quaky. From Wordnik.com. [OLE BLUE] Reference
"quaky" about the idea. From Wordnik.com. [The Olympian Online -- YahooNews] Reference
"She looked very quaky and shivery. From Wordnik.com. [Verner's Pride] Reference
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