"Jerkily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The door was opening slowly, jerkily, in a way that hinted of fearsome, because unknown things. The next instant there stepped out of the opening a tall, shock-haired young man, naked, except for some tatters of an undershirt and a piece of old ...
— Where the Sun Swings North • Barrett Willoughby
... cried out jerkily, and then glanced at each of the windows in quick succession. "You don't suppose,—" she began under her breath, turning to Percival with a distressed look ...
— West Wind Drift • George Barr McCutcheon
... scarcely commenced my examination, however, when it was dramatically interrupted. The door bell commenced to ring jerkily. I stood up, and as I did so the ringing ceased and in its place came a muffled beating on the door. I hurried into the passage as the bell commenced ringing again, and I had almost reached the door when once more the ringing ...
— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer
... managing the car with greater ease and less jerkily as he began to understand the principle of the lever. The cage paused in the black ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... when they separated jerkily and became the hazy but definable figures of men in rough seaman's clothes. Johnny had never heard Breton French before; in his dazed condition the apparently insane gabble might well have been the tongue of another world and ...
— Far from Home • J.A. Taylor
... standing on a moist spot and its great weight had pressed the wheels far down into the soft new road. Mr. Marlin threw on the power. The truck jumped, something snapped sharply and a banging noise followed as the car moved jerkily ahead. ...
— The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol - The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol • Lewis E. Theiss
... and again an incidental Zzzz. His hands would fret about him as he spoke, fiddle his glasses, feel in his waistcoat pockets; ever and again he would rise slowly to his toes as a sentence unwound jerkily like a clockwork snake, and drop back on his heels at the end. They were the very gestures of our first encounter when he had stood before the empty fireplace in his minute draped parlour and talked of my future ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... girl's manner was unaccountably changed toward him. She only spoke to him directly when addressed, and then in monosyllables. She never looked at him. She sat at the table at luncheon and poured the chocolate, and there was almost absolute silence. Emma waited jerkily as usual. James fancied once, when he met her eyes, that there was an expression of covert triumph on her face. Emma had never liked him. He had been conscious of the fact, but it had not disturbed him. He had no more ...
— 'Doc.' Gordon • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman
... The man nodded jerkily and paused to light a cigarette. As they left, Shultz sauntered up and stood aghast at this invasion ...
— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely
... empty trucks going west again made the longest trains, as they could be laden with nothing but a little wire-netting for settlers who were fighting the rabbits, and were easily distinguishable from other "goods," as when they clumsily and jerkily halted the clanking of their couplings and the bumping of their buffers could be heard for a mile or more down the valley. The splendid atmosphere intensified all sounds and carried them an unusual distance, and many a time at first I was wont to be aroused from ...
— Some Everyday Folk and Dawn • Miles Franklin
... old miss," said Bones confidentially. His words came jerkily, because the footplate of an outraged locomotive pounding forward at an unaccustomed speed was not a good foundation for continued eloquence. "Rendering the jolly old country a service—helping the Cabinet—dear old Chenney awfully ...
— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace
... farewell words of advice to the children, especially as regards my fishing rod, which they will persist in using for cricket stumps; and I hate having to run for a train. Quarter of a mile from the station I overtook George and Harris; they were also running. In their case—so Harris informed me, jerkily, while we trotted side by side—it was the new kitchen stove that was to blame. This was the first morning they had tried it, and from some cause or other it had blown up the kidneys and scalded the cook. He said he hoped ...
— Three Men on the Bummel • Jerome K. Jerome
... acted like that—yesterday at 'rithmetic," faltered Bobby jerkily. "My mother says I ...
— Four Little Blossoms at Oak Hill School • Mabel C. Hawley
... Ezra Stowbody's bank was whitewashed, and back of it was a concrete walk and a three-foot square of grass, but the window was barred, and behind the bars she saw Willis Woodford cramped over figures in pompous books. He raised his head, jerkily rubbed his eyes, and went back ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... Little began jerkily with what breath was left from running upstairs, "Alice says she used to live in this house when she was ...
— Chicken Little Jane • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... of the static discharge he heard the voice of the Infant, whose words came jerkily between the ...
— The Hammer of Thor • Charles Willard Diffin
... happened!" Tom's words came jerkily. "She wouldn't even let me talk to her; made a devil of a row, dragged Madeleine all around Europe, wouldn't let her have a letter from me—sent them back herself—and told Madeleine if she married me she ...
— People Like That • Kate Langley Bosher
... Wingate as she raised her eyes from her work. "I don't think you seem to have given him up to any serious extent." And she smiled as she turned her head in the direction of the office wing, from which came a low whistled tune, jerkily and ...
— The Road to Providence • Maria Thompson Daviess
... she was still too much out of breath to speak. The wagon rolled heavily forward along the flat road, and the carter cracked his whip continuously to tell the horses they were nearly home. Presently Mavis got up, perched herself beside her husband, and whispered to him jerkily. ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... from Annis, and the next morning brought a letter from her which the skipper read aloud to the proud father. He read it somewhat jerkily, omitting sentences and halves of sentences which he thought might not interest the old man, or perhaps, what was more likely, would interest him a great deal. After that they were all busy taking in the cargo, Captain Gething, in shirt and ...
— The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant • W. W. Jacobs
... Di Vernon and Lady Gay Spanker, and to see that young woman dancing in the saddle, now here and now there, pulling at the reins in a manner to make a rocking-horse rear, and squealing tearfully and jerkily: "Oh, ho-ho-oh, wh-h-hat ...
— In the Riding-School; Chats With Esmeralda • Theo. Stephenson Browne
... really real—real keno and roulette and everything like that, and everybody in the costume of thirty or forty years ago. Don't you want to buy a ticket? It's the last one I 've got!" she added prettily. But Robert Fairchild had been listening with his eyes, rather than his ears. Jerkily he came to the realization that the girl ...
— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper
... good, sir," said Walters jerkily. "Sorry to 'ave troubled you, sir." He touched his ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates
... whispered Wade jerkily. "He has an envelope up there with fifty thousand dollars in it. He had me count them a week ago, right before his eyes, and hide the envelope in a drawer. You see how he trusts me, sir? He knows that I could rob him to-night if I wanted to do so. Or what's to ...
— From the Housetops • George Barr McCutcheon
... man—a poor priest," he whispered jerkily into my ear, "and the sea is very perfidious. And yet it favours the sons of your nation. But, remember—the child has no one but ...
— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
... chattered Freddie, his words coming jerkily, for he was being "jiggled" himself, as the rudder shook from side to side in his hand. "This—this is the ...
— The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City • Laura Lee Hope
... expression upon Falconer's face deepened. "Let 'em go on," he said jerkily. "I don't want to ...
— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley
... Eddy had unwittingly furnished the right key-note for a whole chorus. Madame Griggs, who had been rocking jerkily in a small, red-plush chair which squeaked faintly, sprang up, and left it still ...
— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... he said, speaking rather jerkily. "Sometimes I get a devil inside me—and I don't know what I'm doing. I believe it's Kieff. I never knew what hell meant till I met him. He taught me practically everything I know in that line. He was like an awful rotting disease. He ruined everyone he came near. Everything he touched went ...
— The Top of the World • Ethel M. Dell
... my breath come fast and jerkily. With madly exalted words I addressed that slight fair-haired figure, which must now for ever be only a memory. "My friend," I said to it; "mine, mine!" In the freshness of my loss, I thought no lover had ever loved as I did. "I loved you—I ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond
... to one another, and Ugh-lomi climbing to her and moving jerkily to mar Wau's aim, felt the second smiting-stone graze his ear, and heard the water splash ...
— Tales of Space and Time • Herbert George Wells
... in her rocking chair. It was a lean vision for eyes lately ravished by the Venus lady's charms; programs rattled; the Tramp Juggler was to follow. I could see her chest rising and falling jerkily with her frightened breath and her hands shook so that she could hardly hold her sewing. From far aloft came that loud guffaw that speaks the vacant mind and one of the pretty girls next me giggled ...
— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
... barrier went from car to car of the escort, checking men who had been the escort for Calhoun. The Minister for Health said jerkily: ...
— The Hate Disease • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... jerkily, made a false start or so and then brought up before me with an air of decision. "I—I'm sorry you don't like her, Roger. I—I should be truly grieved if I—I thought you meant it. For I intend some day to ...
— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs
... though he feared for his life if he lowered them. The motor's hum increased to the steady roar which Johnny's ear recognized as the sound Bland got from it when he started. And with an erratic wabbling the plane moved forward jerkily, steadied a bit as Johnny set his teeth and all his stubbornness to the work, and gradually—very gradually—lifted and went whirring away through ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... lodge Banneker took the horses around while Io went in. Immediately her voice, with a note of alarm in it, summoned him. He found her bending over Miss Van Arsdale, who lay across the divan in the living-room with eyes closed, breathing jerkily. Her lips were blue and ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... of their resignation now, the pitifulness of his condition—all had an appeal as she bent over him that called for an expression having the touch of the sublimely feminine. She took his hand in hers and pressed it gently. He awoke and brought himself jerkily to a sitting posture. The effort made a crash in his head that sent his senses swimming. She thought that he was going to swoon and slipped her arm behind him in support and, the Marta of impulse, pressed her lips to his brow. After the first racking throb of his temples he was able ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer
... overlooking the garden. He saw the water carrier enter through the bamboo gate, heard the water slosh about jerkily as the bheestee emptied his goatskin. He watched the man curiously; saw him drop the skin and tiptoe toward the house, glance to right and left alertly. Then he disappeared. Presently at the head of the ...
— The Adventures of Kathlyn • Harold MacGrath
... Pierre Lawrence laughed jerkily at this witticism. She laughed again when John Turner rose from his chair to congratulate her, but the laugh suddenly ceased when he raised her hand to his lips with a courtesy which was even in those days dying out of the world, and turned away from him ...
— The Last Hope • Henry Seton Merriman
... was back, and before he had said a word, his face confirmed the bad news. Their eyes besought him for details, and he gave them jerkily. "Automobile run over him. He ain't dead, but they think—Chip and the Little Doctor are going to catch the night train. You go haze in the team, Happy. And give 'em a feed of ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower
... boatswain, or phaeton, also climbs to great heights, and is seldom found out of these latitudes. He is a beautiful bird, white, or rose-colored with long carmine tail-feathers. In the sun these roseate birds are brilliant objects as they fly jerkily against the bright blue sky, or skim over the sea, rising and falling in their search for fish. I have seen them many times with the frigates, with whom they are great friends. It would appear that there is a bond between them; I ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien
... said Frank; and he grasped the surcingle rope as the elephant sank jerkily to its knees. Then sliding down from the pad he entered the gate and passed up through the garden towards the bungalow. As he did so a dainty little figure in white, a charmingly pretty girl with golden hair and blue eyes, came out on the verandah. ...
— The Jungle Girl • Gordon Casserly
... can do with money!" cried Gavrilo, suddenly breaking into passionate excitement, and jerkily, hurriedly, as though chasing his thoughts and catching his words as they flew, he began to speak of life in the village with money and without money. ...
— Creatures That Once Were Men • Maxim Gorky
... jerkily because of his lordship's inattention—through the pudding and cheese to coffee. Never had I known his lordship behave so languidly in the presence of food he cared for. His hosts ate even less. They were worried. ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... them this jerkily, as though against his will, and kind-hearted little Brother thought perhaps they had asked too ...
— Brother and Sister • Josephine Lawrence
... He proceeded jerkily through the village, with glances on this side and that; and "Charming," he broke out presently; "quite ...
— The Golden Age • Kenneth Grahame |
