He saw Barker flush slightly, and did not miss the jerky nervousness of his answer--that or the forced enthusiasm.
Suddenly he stopped, with one of his jerky pauses, and when he spoke his voice took on a boyish quality that made it appealing.
He rose with a jerky movement, which gave him the appearance of a little figure shot out of a box.
This is no cartage by a team hauling in the open, but a jerky displacement, the work of invisible levers.
For a long time, with jerky steps, the mother explores the body in every direction; she takes her stand by preference on the head, which she sounds by tapping on it with her front tarsi.
It was immediately plain to Adams that the jerky sentences were shot out at random in order that Perry's slow mind might gain a larger space in which to grope for the word he really wanted.
In the distance a hand-organ was grinding out a jerky sentimental air, and beside him, at the corner by which he stood, a crippled vender of fruit had halted his little cart of oranges and apples.
Once they were seated on the heather, with the wold behind and the sea in front, Gwen began to pour out the story in her usual abrupt, jerky fashion, not omitting the matter of the prize essay which she had sold to Netta.
Then Charlie made her an odd, jerky bow, and without a single word further turned and left her.
She made a curiously jerky movement, as if she wrenched herself free from some constricting hold.
With a jerky movement she flung up both her hands, grasping tensely the arms that held her so rigidly.
He could have tossed a pebble to where a bright-eyed sandpiper was cocking itself backward and forward, its jerky movements accompanied by friendly little tittering noises.
On the other side of him, in a dense pocket of poplar and spruce, a warbler suddenly brought its song to a jerky end.
I sent Hedrick ahead to summon the conductor, but he had hardly left us when the engine whistled sharply and the train began to slow up in a jerky fashion.
The watchers had not been able to distinguish the faces of the conspirators, but they could never forget the calm, cold voice of Michael, with its quaint, jerky English.
The head twisted about with a quick, jerky motion till the bird's eyes rested on the canoe, when it disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared.
By rocking the canoe, with a short, jerky motion, he got rid of some of the water and finished the bailing with his hat.
This capped the climax, and the poor Russian sat munching the sweet stuff and laughing with delight in a funny jerky way.
He said you two boys were too jerky in your little attentions to the dear soul.
They are the talkers who have what may be called JERKY minds.
After a jolting half-hour with one of these jerky companions, talking with a dull friend affords great relief.
At last he jumped into the midst of things, with all the jerky suddenness of a man who has at last determined to break through the ice-skim on his morning tub.
Defn: Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.
All this was said in short, jerky sentences; moreover, when she placed his change in front of him he pushed it back almost angrily.
I have watched one an hour at a time, going about in his jerky fashion, tearing up the ground and searching therein, exactly after the manner of a scratching hen.
Her movements were jerky and wren-like, and every few minutes she flitted into a tiny crevice that seemed, from my point of view, hardly large enough to admit even her minute form.
It was my privilege to trot by his side, carrying his worn black medicine case and endeavoring vainly to keep pace with his long jerky strides.
His aging muscles, staled by thirty-odd years of lack of practice at such tricks, merely made it jerky and forced.
The town was growing in jerky spurts, as the old inhabitants took on new courage, or new blood came in from outside.
Slowly at first, but gradually with more active and jerky motions, the thing became possessed.
It had been wounded and felt a sharp pain, for it tried to run away with a slow, limping, jerky gallop.
A big blue fly was walking over the body with his lively, jerky movements.
I think so," said Cleek; and shook out a little jerky laugh, and stood looking at her foolishly; not quite knowing what to do with his feet and hands.
By this time tee-hees from the children and chuckles from some of the older members interfered with Mr. Badger's fervent but jerky discourse.
In jerky sentences she told of the engagement and how the news had reached her.
The jerkybeat of the engine grows louder, and an increasing heat surrounds us.
Near to me I make out the silhouette of Mesnil Joseph, who is steering straight and with no effort of concealment for the spot whence the barking explosions come in jerky sequence.
In a jerky voice, which became almost inaudible at times owing to his amazement, he read: "The end is reached.
He dropped into his chair again, but only for a moment; then, drawing himself up, he hurried toward the door with a jerky step.
The glass now moved round the board in short, jerky movements, but did not touch any letters.
The jerkymovements then stopped, and our Spook took control again.
The jerkymovements of the glass began again, indicating that OOO was in control.
