Sharply he glanced about the room, at the far, closed doors where it was not inconceivable that old Miriam was lurking, and strode over to her and began talking very jerkily and huskily, over her bent head.
He paused there a moment to bow jerkily first toward Sally, then toward Van Horne, who was watching the scene with amused, cynical eyes.
The Imp loves the sticklebacks because they are so bold and jolly and move so quickly and so jerkily that it is hard to follow them.
But while we watch something comes jerkily out of the end of the bundle--a black head and six busy legs, and soon the caddis is crawling along as fast as it can, dragging its house behind it.
This widened jerkily as though a door were being hoisted by some sort of pulley arrangement.
It came to me jerkily and poorly pictured, but I managed to piece out the story.
A glowing sphere, it staggered midway between floor and ceiling, creeping jerkily upwards.
A big, ill-dressed fellow was repeating the tale of scandal for the benefit of a newcomer; the narrative moving jerkily over hiccoughs, like hurdles.
The hair of the dog is good for the bite," he muttered, and with an effort closed his eyes and conveyed the stuffjerkily to his lips.
Weakly and jerkily the man was able to tell how, as he was going forward, a large calibre shell fell less than a meter in front of him and exploded.
He was sent that evening to the neuropsychiatry center, walking jerkily and as if slightly drunk, with a number of small gesticulations and murmurings.
These antagonistic muscles, themselves entirely incapable of voluntary movement, are seen to be contracting effectively and jerkily to meet the action of the agonists, also seen making jerky movements.
He could move his arms, but in dorsal decubitus he could move his legs only jerkily and uncertainly.
The porter was announcing the theatre cab and Smith reserved his answer until the motor hackney was rolling jerkily away toward the opera-house.
She twirled the tumbler jerkily between soft thumb and forefinger.
He spoke very rapidly and jerkily and hoarsely, as though he were himself ashamed of this necessity to put his thoughts into words and hear them.
As the camels rose jerkily and followed their leader in line at the same fast pace as before she grew sick with the agony of aching bones and the utter weariness of motion repeated again and again without varying or ceasing.
All it did was to--" A little jerkily her drooping head bobbed forward and then back again.
A little jerkily then, but very clearly, very concisely, the Senior Surgeon called out to the White Linen Nurse just how every lever, every pedal should be manipulated to start the car!
Jerkily the White Linen Nurse swerved off through the French door that opened directly on the piazza.
Then equally jerkily he began to pucker his eyebrows.
Most jerkily the Senior Surgeon pushed back his chair from the table and swallowed half a cup of coffee at one single gulp.
Jerkily the Senior Surgeon retraced his footsteps into the office and stood facing her as though with some really terrible accusation.
Then he turned jerkily on his heel, the lanthorn swinging round and leaving me in his shadow.
He waved one hand jerkily toward a group ahead, which included the boy under discussion chatting eagerly with Parker and Bob Gibson.
Then, "Much obleeged," came jerkily from the thin, straight lips.
Hot red flames licked out overhead as the boat jerkily dropped.
Their weather-beaten parchment-brown faces were drawn and troubled, and they spoke in the jerkily lowered voices of men not wont to hold their tongues or passions in restraining leash.
So jerkily she thrust her slender throat forward with the speech, her whole facial expression seemed suddenly to have undercut and stunned her father's.
He rose to his feet and began pacingjerkily to and fro.
Hilliard, moving jerkily about the room as if he were a puppet controlled by wires, went on speaking.
She heard her name called from the wharf and turned her face backward, as the light craft began to move jerkily away.
In a ferment of curiosity, Flame edged jerkily forward, and subsided as jerkily again.
As I stood there, I saw Doctor Reid, in loose flannels and with a tennis racket in his hand, come in the side gate and walk jerkily toward the garage in the rear.
We sat almost in silence until the two doctors returned, Paulus frowning downward and Reid more jerkily busy than ever.
Jasper was on his feet, and Woodward too rose, jerkilyholding up a hand.
