It had been raining all the morning, and now late in the afternoon the garden was a quiet grey place of fallen leaves and gathering dusk and occasional small Shakings of wet off the trees when a silent bird perched on the sodden branches.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
Her cries brought every woman in the village to the spot, and solemn were the Shakings of heads, and loud the recalling of prophecies that vengeance would soon overtake the wicked.
"The Drummer's Coat"
J. W. Fortescue
In the course of time, however, we found the benefit of the change in every way; and the grumblers were silenced, because in spite of their wise Shakings of the head, we filled the ship with oil as full as she could hold, much sooner than we had expected.
"Fighting the Whales"
R.M. Ballantyne