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But before the words were well out of his mouth, his cap flew off and a fierce blow jerked his head to one side. [2]
He could not walk well on tiptoe and his whole body jerked at each step. [2]
Shorter jerked himself upright again, and became very solemn. [9]
When she was touched, she jerked her bound legs and looked wildly yet simply at everybody. [2]
People sauntered, jerked themselves forward, moved in and out, as it were, intent on going everywhere and nowhere; and the excitement possessing them, the agitation in the air, made them seem still more exasperating, and bewildering. [11]
The Cossacks saw that his arms and legs jerked rapidly though his head was quite motionless. [2]
Each new splendor that burst out of my visions of the future whirled me bodily over in bed or jerked me to a sitting posture just as if an electric battery had been applied to me. [5]
Then, with a swift sweep, he jerked a gun from its sheath and fired. [13]
Thus I was rudely jerked back to face the problem with which we had left the island that morning. [9]
The man turned round, and looked at David, then he jerked his head in a friendly sort of way and motioned towards the sunset. [11]
When the adjutant reminded him of the prisoner, he jerked his head in Pierre's direction with a frown and ordered him to be led away. [2]
A shot rang out, and they were jerked violently by the starting of the horses. [9]
One of the men stuck his head out only about a couple of foot from me, and I thought I was gone; but he jerked it in again, and says: "Heave that blame lantern out o' sight, Bill! [5]
But he was looking at Clarence, who had jerked himself forward in his chair, his thin hands convulsively clutching at the arms of it. [9]
It isn't--" Byng jerked quickly to his feet and lunged forward as though he would do his visitor violence; but he got hold of himself in time, and, with a sudden and whimsical toss of the head, characteristic of him, he burst into a laugh. [11]
They are outside"--Krool jerked a finger towards the rear of the house--"with the biltong and the dop. [11]
Ere Heinz could interfere, he jerked it back so violently that he tore it from the fastenings and forced the terrified maid, whose arm he grasped, to approach the knight with him. [10]
He seized the horse's mane, he put his foot in the stirrup; the astonished animal gave a snort and jerked the bridle from the farmer's hand. [9]
He jerked the horse down with a powerful hand and leaped into the saddle. [13]
But Cyriax struck his wife so rudely on the hand that she jerked furiously at the chain and, with a muttered oath, blew on the bruised spot. [10]
Then he jerked his third cord as vigorously as he could; his friends understood, and dragged him out of those icy jaws of death. [5]
Fielding fretfully jerked his foot on the floor, and lighted his pipe, the first that day. [11]
But he fastened himself on us, and jerked and hitched along in his side-wheel fashion. [4]
He said, 'Oh, hell, he ain't shot,' and jerked away from the men who had him by the collar, and ran below. [5]
He jerked his head as I went by with a cry of "Lord, it is Mr. Richard back! [9]
He snatched them, he jerked them this way and that, he booted them around, he knocked them sprawling faster than they could get up. [5]
More than once he jerked over to seize it, only in vain, for the rabbit by renewed effort eluded his grasp. [13]
But the Austrian general, continuing to read, frowned angrily and jerked his elbows, as if to say: "You can tell me your views later, but now be so good as to look at the map and listen. [2]
Dryfoos fumbled about for the knob in the dim passageway outside, and Beaton, who had experience of people's difficulties with it, suddenly jerked the door open. [8]
A flood of feeling came into his eyes, his head jerked like that of a bull-moose. [11]
Anisya Fedorovna's smiling face reappeared in the doorway and behind hers other faces... Fetching water clear and sweet, Stop, dear maiden, I entreat-- played "Uncle" once more, running his fingers skillfully over the strings, and then he stopped short and jerked his shoulders. [2]
Her quick, deep-set eyes searched Hodder's face as she jerked his hand; but her greeting was cordial, and, matter-of-fact. [9]
Within the house enclosure are an olive mill and press, a wine-press and a great storehouse of wine, containing now little but empty casks,--a dusky, interesting place, with pomegranates and dried bunches of grapes and oranges and pieces of jerked meat hanging from the rafters. [4]
Tom jerked the door open and flung out a slab of Jim's meat, and the dogs went for it, and in two seconds he was out himself and back again and shut the door, and I knowed he'd fixed the other door too. [5]
My time has come--" Jean Jacques jerked his head angrily. [11]
He's got to come down the trail, an' when I spot him by the Juniper clump"--he jerked an arm towards a spot almost a mile farther up the valley--"I kin scoot up the underbrush a bit and git him--plumb. [11]
We made a break aft and raised a wail, and begun to beg the professor to turn back and land us, but he jerked out his pistol and motioned us back, and we went, but nobody will ever know how bad we felt. [5]
So I started away with four dogs and plenty of jerked buffalo, and so much brown brandy as Macgregor could squeeze out of his eye! [11]
Breaking Rock was at the door now, his beady eyes fixed on Mitiahwe's, his figure jerked to its full height, which made him, even then, two inches less than Long Hand. [11]
An hour's row and we got within hail of the derelict--as one of the crew said, 'feelin' as if the immortal life was jerked out of us. [11]
I came across an old journal of my great-grandfather, John York,--my name's Dick Adderley,--and just as if a chain had been put round my leg and I'd been jerked over by the tipping of the world, I had to come to Hudson's Bay. [11]
But see, as a philosopher"--Jean Jacques jerked a haughty assent--"as a philosopher you will want to know how and why it is. [11]
All at once a horrible pallor spread over the face of Villiard, and his head jerked forward. [11]
It sank into a hollow and was partially lost to sight; it rose again and jerked forward, the dust rising behind it like surf. [11]
Outside there"--he jerked a finger towards the street--"they won't know that you are not with us; and as for Jean Jacques, isn't it possible for a Clerk of the Court to stretch the truth a little? [11]

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