His feet was sore with dancing and his throat ached with singing Zulu, but wot upset 'im more than anything was an elderly old party wot would keep jabbing 'im in the ribs with her umbrella to see whether he could laugh.
Illustration: An elderly old party wot would keep jabbing 'im in the ribs with her umbrella.
Ben Ali was using his sharp prod with apparent frenzy, but the jabbing point had not the least effect.
Haidee, pushing something out on the left-hand wing and jabbing it down there with a hatpin, so it would stay.
Bryan, the trumpeter, with jabbingheels and flapping arms, was tearing back toward the troop at the moment at the top speed of his gray charger, already so near that he was shouting to the sergeant in the lead.
But with every stride the fleeing steed grew weaker, stumbled painfully and slackened speed, and soon they saw him slowing down despite the frantic jabbing of the spurs, and with drooped head and bleeding nostrils giving up the fight.
The little man danced about him, jabbing him repeatedly with the knife until the screams started again.
He heard men speaking above him and feet shuffling around him, but despite his command, no swords werejabbing downward.
And then he saw grinning Saracen-faced demons in helljabbing him with spears and scimitars.
Five needles were jabbing viciously up out of the sand in the spot where he would have fallen.
They were trying frantically to bring down the being that was so effectively thwarting their plans, jabbing viciously with their upthrust beaks.
He keeps this place all of the time," said Drew, jabbingat the button.
The detective strode across the library rugs and snapped on the wall switch by jabbing at a mother-of-pearl button.
They were jabbing at nothing there on the prairie.
Most of 'em were bunched by the roadside, jabbing with their lances at something or other.
But across the table was Hiram Look, just as intense, the unterrified representative of the proletariat, his finger jabbing the air.
Turning, she waddled out, jabbing viciously at the young squaw with her elbow as she passed, and spitting out some sort of threat or command--Miss Georgie could not tell which.
The Bishop paused, and the racing, jabbingpencils of the reporters could be plainly heard in the hush of the room.
The quick, jabbing sentences from the girl had driven home to him just one thing.
D'Ucello was jabbing his hands furiously toward the steward.
Packard, jabbingthe muzzle of Woods's big automatic hard into Woods's ribs.
The police moved quickly around him, their gun tubes up, jabbinginto him.
He leaned toward Cole, jabbing an immense finger at him.
A novel candlestick is made by opening the blade of a knife and jabbing it into a tree; upon the other upturned blade put a candle.
Greasy knives and forks may be cleaned by jabbing {153} them into the ground.
But the Pinkies were too close together to be caught in this manner, and now by command of Cap'n Bill they suddenly rose to their feet and beganjabbing their sticks at the foe.
The Blues were in such a frightened, confused mass that they got in one another's way and could not make very good progress on the retreat, so the old sailor soon caught up with them and began jabbing at the crowd with his stick.
Standing with legs wide apart and from time to time jabbing with his cane at Sam's legs, John Telfer held forth on the subject of love.
It seemed to me the longest time before anything happened, for Cousin Eunice was jabbing holes in the sand with her parasol like she was being paid to do it by the hour.
Illustration: Jabbing holes in the sand with her parasol Page 26] Before long they branched off from Keats to Shelley, and Rufe didn't need a book with him.
The man, holding the harpoon point up, wasjabbing with it over his shoulder.
Captain Sandoval punctuated his words by jabbing a long forefinger into the air, but Matt hardly saw the finger, or the wildly triumphant look on the captain's face.
The rebels started back, with me and my mule ahead of them, and they kept the mule ahead by jabbing it with a saber occasionally.
But I just remained quiet and listened, grateful that the needles had stopped jabbing at my temples and my dizziness was practically gone.
When white-hot needles of pain are jabbing at your nerves a strange, almost blinding kind of illumination seems to sweep into the brain.
A novel candlestick is made by opening the blade of a knife and jabbing it into a tree, and upon the other upturned blade putting a candle.
Greasy knives and forks may be cleaned by jabbing a couple of times into the ground.
After the first step or two I abandoned the bank and plunged into the stream, striking and jabbing recklessly.
Slossdick, jabbingat a page of "copy" with his pencil.
The Phantom wound his arm about the other's back, firmlyjabbing the muzzle of the pistol against the fellow's armpit, thus giving the appearance of steadying a slightly incapacitated friend.
The boy on Lucretia is jabbing her with the spurs, and she's cutting up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jabbing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
