Stewart, a jitney driver, was whipped, tarred, and feathered by twelve men after three passengers had lured him to a lonely spot.
Red" Kemp, a jitney driver, was whipped, tarred and feathered by twelve masked men at Goose Creek, Texas.
At the shop he came to, and presently, in the jitney again, he was blissfully aware of Geoffry Chester on the swift running-board, questioning his mother and Aline by turns.
They put him and the four ladies into the jitney and sent them there, and the world moved on.
The jitney struck its bone-shaking gait along the curving street of Endicutt.
We’ll dig up a jitneyif you can get as far as the street.
Again he risked the scorn of conductors and jitney drivers.
His face was as empty of expression, as unmelodramatic, as that of a jitney driver.
Since my faith in the jitney was still impaired I chose the river route and it gave me the most stirring of all my African experiences.
The faithful Moody, who preceded me, had revived life in the jonah jitney and at dawn the next day we started at full speed and reached Djoko Punda by noon.
He used the same jitney that I had started in, and it also broke down with him.
Laboriously the jitney snorted through the sand and bumped over tree stumps.
By this time my confidence in the African jitney was somewhat shaken.
The only atrocities that I saw in the Congo were the slaughter of my clothes on the native washboard, usually a rock, and the American jitney that broke down and left me stranded in the Kasai jungle.
If anyone wanders by, that jitney alarm siren goes off, and Harpo's just a poor technician trying to make it stop.
He nodded and followed them down the corridor to the small jitney car that was waiting.
He ran out into the hall, leaped into the jitney car.
Certainly the jitney ride had been no reassurance to the contrary.
Without a word, Harpo moved down to the end of the corridor, and drew the jitney car with him.
By the end of another ten minutes the last two of the passengers in the back portion of the jitney had reached their home corner, and the car was empty except for Daisy and Jimmy.
There was the usual preliminary roar, proceeding by staccato jet and pit-a-pat to smooth pulsing motion, as the jitney glided out handily into the multifarious traffic of the street.
Jimmy Knight called with his jitney for Daisy, at about midnight.
But I caught on behind a jitney once," confessed the little girl, "and a cop bawled me out for it.
I'll put youse in a jitney that'll drop ye right at the corner of the street--half a block away.
Wait till we pull off the big noise and he'll be welcome to all the jitney gushers below the border.
Stray dogs sniffing at heaps of refuse, a group of tethered horses shivering under thin blankets in the hotel shed, a battered jitney or two stalled before shop and saloon.
The truck and jitney then started for Dandelion Camp, the happy givers picturing how delighted the scouts would be to receive the shower of furniture.
Finally the truck halted, and the jitney traveled on a few hundred feet in advance before it, too, had to stop.
By this time the jitney party had been picked up one after another, and now all arrived at the Vernons' house for the last passenger.
It was important that all her ground should be covered before the public school would be dismissed, hence she quickened her steps, and she had but two more tickets to dispose of when the rumbling of a jitney attracted her attention.
Now the train is gone," scolded Tessie, "and we have to take that horrid old jitney out to the junction.
Here we are," whispered the latter, as the jitney jolted to a standstill.
I'm in neither the taxi nor jitney business, but I'll take your money, though it won't take that much gasolene or oil to put you in Storm Mountain.
I just knew how much you felt for the poor men and approved of their venture, and so I just decided I'd run a jitney myself for a day or so and get myself out of debt.
Dum had lettered the jitneysign for her the evening before.
Her face was dirty enough to suit Dee's idea of a jitney driver.
Running a jitney for almost eleven hours is some sleep-provoker.
I've never yet seen a jitney driver who did not have a shady face.
Before the hordes of shoppers were disposed of the men and business women began to jitney their way back to their homes for luncheon.
Now if I had let you have it like a lady I could have got the jitneyscheme first," grumbled Dum.
Dee, reading headlines: "'Ordinance to prohibit the drivers of jitney cars!
I was sorry she was so broad-beamed, as it was difficult to get three on the seat while she stayed with me, and of course when you are running a jitney every inch counts.
There seemed to be such a happy, good-natured crowd of passengers; and certainly many a shopgirl and workingman got to ride in a jitney who had despaired before of ever being fortunate enough to get into an automobile.
I'll ride in your jitney if my work takes me in the West End.
The chauffeur ran his jitney from the railroad station and was known to Mr. Hammond.
He approached the spot where the girl had been left by the jitney driver.
Jitney or truck-transported infantry following as fast as gasoline can carry it to support the success and make our foothold sure.
Our Divisional Jitney companies of machine guns driving in ‘hell-bent’ after the tanks and widening the breach.
The cross-country jitney busses have not been slow to take advantage of this.
The fine new highways and the even climate of the Golden State, which brought the jitneyto its highest strength there, are giving stimulus to its bigger brother--the long-distance motor bus.
But as the jitney of the city has diminished, its brother of the country roads has grown.
Wouldn't it be funny to see us and the Sans down at the station every day, grabbing the freshies as they came off the train, like a couple of jitney drivers?
As we aren't in the jitney business we won't come to blows over the one extra fare.
Just as Mother Blossom was wearily wondering if she should telegraph Father Blossom that Dot was lost, a motor jitney lumbered down to the dock.
Sure enough, their jitney had not gone very far when they saw another jitney coming toward them.
Dot felt that the jitney driver was very kind, but she hoped with all her heart that she would not have to stay all night in a strange house.
Long up the road a spell we'll meet the two o'clock jitney coming back, and I'll see that Dave Gunn takes you in with him.
You'll get used to it," Tiger Martin chuckled as they waited for thejitney to take them across to the launching pad.
But an hour before count-down began, a jitney buzzed across the field, and a Two-star Pathologist climbed aboard with his three black-cloaked orderlies.
A jitney stopped for them, and then zoomed out across the field toward the ship.
He left the pneumatic tube and climbed on the jitney that wound its way through the corridors of the pathology sector and into the quiet, austere quarters of the resident pathologists.
I’ll run over and ask that jitney man who is watching us as if we were outlaws,” said Fred, starting off across the road.
Following this verse contest, Billy announced that he and two friends would produce a moving picture play depicting a jitney in distress.
The brow of the hill reached they all jumped in again and down the jitney coasted.
It appeared that he and Dudley and Paul had a motion picture play of a jitney which they were anxious to give.
No sooner had he succeeded in starting the engine again, than a second passenger (Dudley) hailed the jitney to stop.
Fred had signalled Elizabeth while the Jitney act was being done, and she slipped away from the circle unseen by the others.
Norma dropped her trowel and fork and raced after Belle to the gate to watch the private jitney go past.
Well, you can argue out the question about a jitney license, but I must go back to my flowers," said Norma, getting up from the steps and starting for the roundel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jitney" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bus; hack; omnibus; stage; taxi
