"Jerkily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was Harvey Maxwell's busy day. The ticker began to reel out jerkily its fitful coils of tape, the desk telephone had a chronic attack of buzzing. Men began to throng into the office and call at him over the railing, jovially, sharply, viciously, excitedly. Messenger boys ran in and ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry
... He shuffled jerkily into the private office, seemed to grasp its every detail in one comprehensive, peering glance, and pounced upon the dagger with a hoarse exclamation. The Scotland Yard man watched him with curiosity, and Julius Rohscheimer, in the open door, followed his movements ...
— The Sins of Severac Bablon • Sax Rohmer
... well with any of the others," he went on jerkily, "and she's certainly awfully fond of you—the madam is. She's taken you everywhere, I know, and all the dinners, ...
— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... full command of it, and was even producing her effects with unwonted freedom. Was she not, indeed, too free, too fluent, for perfect naturalness? And was not Dorset, to whom his glance had passed by a natural transition, too jerkily wavering between the same extremes? Dorset indeed was always jerky; but it seemed to Selden that tonight each vibration swung ...
— House of Mirth • Edith Wharton
... and a toothbrush moustache, he might easily have been passed over in a crowd without a second glance. He was obviously and acutely nervous. His fingers moved jerkily, and there were twitchings at the corners of his mouth that he seemed unable to control. It was not a good-tempered mouth. He appeared unconscious of the presence of Malcolm Sage. His eyes were fixed upon the second car, which had just drawn up, and from which ...
— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins
... hundred and eighty pounds made a weight that was apparently a burden for even this flying monster. It flew jerkily along, scarcely a dozen feet from the ground, and there was laborious effort obvious in every movement of its flapping wings. Powell decided to make a prompt break for escape before the octopus-bat succeeded in fighting its way any higher. His left arm was still pinioned ...
— Devil Crystals of Arret • Hal K. Wells
... Eberbach present to apologize," he said, jerkily, red as a beet. "Begs permission to take a half-dozen of ...
— The Maids of Paradise • Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
... jerkily, and he seemed almost like one speaking against his will—"what do you make out of it? Don't you think ...
— The Glory Of The Conquered • Susan Glaspell
... a racket in there," he said jerkily, indicating the parlour. "Can't stand such a noise when I've got a ...
— The Hound From The North • Ridgwell Cullum
... jerkily, wincing as the eyes opened and stared stupidly at the ring of anxious faces. "How do ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... along jerkily from station to station, the earlier void of Duneland became peopled indeed. The extraordinarily mild day had drawn out hundreds—had given the moribund summer-excursion season a new lease of life. Every stoppage brought so many more young men in soiled khaki, with shapeless packs on their ...
— Bertram Cope's Year • Henry Blake Fuller
... 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 ...
— The Last Hope • Henry Seton Merriman
... "Sir," said he, jerkily, "for such trust I would thank you, only words are too poor. But if, as I think, it is your desire to enter the World of Fashion, it becomes my duty, as an honest man, to tell you that all your efforts, all your money, would be unavailing, even though you had been ...
— The Amateur Gentleman • Jeffery Farnol et al
... the banker ejaculated, hoarsely, and sank into the seat from which he had arisen. Ramon was staring from one to the other, his head turning jerkily. ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach
... clay-coloured bundle. He might have been a clod of the earth that he tilled, so passive, so silent, still brown, for death itself could not have taken the burn from his skin, but with patient, bovine eyes looking out heavily from under half-closed lids. He breathed jerkily, but he neither cried out nor groaned. There was something almost brutal and inhuman in his absolute stolidity. He asked no sympathy, for his life had been without it. It was a broken tool rather ...
— The Last Galley Impressions and Tales - Impressions and Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle
... she said, endeavouring to steady her flurried tones. Her heart was still playing tricks, throbbing jerkily in her side, and her breath came unevenly. "Only you startled me. I thought ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... easily into Rotterdam as, with a terrific jangle of tunes played jerkily on the chimes, the clocks were striking two. Robin slowed down as they approached ...
— The Yellow Streak • Williams, Valentine
... he mumbled through pain clenched teeth, as they drew in their first air again. "And leave me." He spoke jerkily, with pain-filled pauses between his sentences. "There is no need for both of us to drown. I've got to go. It will be in my stomach, at any moment, and then I'll drag you under, and be unable to let go of you. Please, please, dear, keep away. One of us is enough. You've plenty ...
— On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales • Jack London
... slightest gesture, at your slightest movement, I'll fire," he said jerkily, and covered the ...
— Arsene Lupin • Edgar Jepson
... elbow bent, wrist and hand horizontal and poked backwards and forwards, to represent the emu's neck and head. The left hand held behind the back, like that of a shy official expecting a tip, stands for the emu's tail. Thus they advance slowly and jerkily with back bent and arm pointing now this way, now that, like an inquisitive emu who is not sure ...
— Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie
... children," she 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 ...
— West Wind Drift • George Barr McCutcheon |
