"Shake-up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the show has got to have a railroad wreck every season, and all hands lay awake nights on the cars to brace themselves for the shock. Sometimes it comes early in the season, and again a show goes along until almost the end of the season without a shake-up, and fellows think maybe there is not going to be any wreck, but the engineers are only waiting till everybody has forgotten about it, and then, biff, bang, and they have run into another train, or been run into, and you have to be pulled out of a window ...
— Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus • George W. Peck
... her eyes wide open. Her face was white around the corners of the mouth and at the edges of her nose. The whiteness of the flesh under the deep tan gave her a completely frightened look, far more than the shake-up ...
— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith
... "There's been a shake-up in our combination," he remarked casually to Fyfe. "Monohan and dad have split over a question of business policy. Walter's taking over all our interests on Roaring Lake. He appears to be going to peel off his coat and become ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... Bud. Your thanks will be just what you make of this work when I leave. There has been a big shake-up in the Service. Some of us ...
— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert
... weeks later that a serious shake-up occurred in the office force, of which no one seemed to know the cause. There was a mad scramble for advancement all along the line, in which Kirk took no part. But unexpectedly Runnels summoned him ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach |
