the shakes

“Somebody playing a mouth organ, everybody having awkward pees with everybody else grumbling, the druggie waking to the shakes in a screaming fit, that persistent clanging, occasional shouts, vehicles wahwahing outside.”

The Great California Game

“It was tiny with but one small window high on the far wall, and that with a prospect only on the clapboards and the shakes of the store across the alley.”

Cold Mountain