Then he turned the outlaw face up, none too gently, by jerking his tangled hair.
He was still jerking at his gun butt as he hit the floor.
Before Gladwin could jump to his feet the lid was thrown back and there sat the subject of his soliloquy in his shirt sleeves, jerking his head about like a jack-in-the-box.
And just then the thief breezed in again, jerking back on his heels as he caught sight of Gladwin sans uniform, sans moustache and sans eyebrows.
She pulled back, jerking to free herself, and shrieked.
Kill him," Burkhardt roared suddenly, jerking forth his revolver and blazing at the engineer.
Then I observed Ed Sorenson come out presently, jerking his collar and tie straight.
For there in the grass, still jerking spasmodically in its death agony, lay a doe, a larger one than that she had seen in the glade.
A response went over his face, his head was lifted in an answering, jerking gesture.
And it’s true that he can do it best without a mass of ignorant, uninstructed, sentimental people for ever jerking at the reins.
Surely, then, they should have more of the reins in their hands, less jerking of them from below.
You can lay in bed till they call you for breakfast, if you want to," was Holmes's reply, piling out of bed and jerking his clothes on as if he were a fireman answering a fire.
He flung the white object at me, and, jerking open the outer door, raced into the darkness.
Beyond jerking his hand away instantly, he made no movement.
I had torn a great strip of the silk loose, and now I ruthlessly finished the destruction of my gown by jerking it free and tying it around my head.
And I wish dish-cloths had never been invented," she exclaimed, jerking her thread into a tangle.
For some minutes Genevieve busied herself with her own toilet, jerking hooks and ribbons into place with unnecessary force; then she turned despairingly to Mrs. Kennedy, whose room she was sharing.
He sat down abruptly on his haunches, thrusting his nose upward, the mouth opening and closing with jerking movements, each time opening wider.
These jerkingmovements were in unison with the recurrent spasms that attacked the throat, each spasm severer and more intense than the preceding one.
With a desperation that was madness, unmindful of the pain, he hurried up the slope to the crest of the hill over which his comrade had disappeared--more grotesque and comical by far than that limping, jerking comrade.
He grabbed the tree, but Stacy, jerking on his foot, pulled the tree right over on him, incidentally throwing Tad down.
You're all right," commanded Ned, jerking Stacy out by the collar.
You can see, too, the tiny things jerking their tails about every now and then.
I am inclined to think," said Willy, "judging from its wriggling, jerking motions that it must be the larva of some kind of gnat.
At the same time he seized the tube with both hands, jerking it from the arms of Worth.
Then, jerking the mouse back out of the owl's throat, he would allow the other owl to really swallow it.
His friend edged away, repeating his words and jerking his thumb backward toward the Bishop's son.
Chance's answer was a spasmodic jerking of his hand toward his hip.
This forbidding-looking person came stumping and jerking along toward me, whisking his stick now and then viciously in the air, and giving his fell of hair a short shake, like a wild bull preparing to attack.
And so he swaggered away, jerking and waddling over the sward, and was soon lost in the wood.
While Bill was gone for horse feed I was busy jerking the venison.
The men said that we had meat in plenty now and that we would not watch the licks any more that time, so they put in their time jerking the venison and also some of the bear meat.
You were alluding to the jerking movement of my hand every time I try to reach for anything?
He’s had a fit,” growled one of the warriors, jerking his thumb in the direction of his comrade’s back.
Their heads then hang down pitifully, all blue and congested, and quivering with the jerking of the cart.
Behind him came the horse wrangler and his helper, doing their best to keep the remuda out of the barbed-wire, and jerking up more fence with their ropes than Gus laid down with his nail-puller.
That letter was from her," volunteered Brigham, jerking his head back toward the place where they had been camped, and after that he said no more.
Twisting and turning, driving around through new-made lanes, or jerking a world of staples and laying the wire on the ground, he toiled on in the wake of the outfit, which was rounding up spare corners of the unfenced range.
