You're just the sort that needs a jolt and I like the idea of handing it.
People with heart disease don't invariably wait for an earthquake to jolt them out of life.
He hooked me twice on th' wind, and I handed him out a jolt on th' jaw that put him t' th' mat.
Lying on the floor, as we had been, the explosion, far from doing us injury, in the stiff jolt it gave our battered frames only hastened our return to consciousness.
Now and then, when I would hook a stiff jolt in under the fringe of his mop to the side of the neck, he would wince a bit, but most of the time he simply stood with bowed head and set muscles and let me pound away.
They had their aim disarranged by the sudden jolt and stoppage of the car.
The soldier needed something to jolt him out of his despondency, to occupy his energy--and he was American.
I gave such a start of surprise that it is a mercy I did not jolt against that kettle and send a stream of scalding hot water over the laurel-green-cloth-clad knees of the man before me.
That's what gave me a sort of a jolt just now when I looked at you and thought about you being YOU--and what it meant.
It was a bit of a jolt seeing you jump almost over my shoulder.
He saw that the pack already had slipped dangerously, and that a sudden jolt might send it hurtling into the chasm.
We don't want any great jolt when I cut loose the lashings.
Long after midnight he felt a jolt at his wrist that brought him to his feet in an instant.
A powerful arm gripped him like a vise, pinioning his own right arm to his side, while a big hand was clapped over his mouth, forcing the lad's head violently backwards with a jolt which for the moment he thought had dislocated his neck.
No man who has felt that first, overpowering jolt of a striking salmon can question the rapture of that first moment.
The jolt carried through all the intricacies of the nerves, jarred the soul within the man, and seemingly registered in the germ plasm itself an impression that could be recalled, in dreams, ten generations hence.
The first man who touched it--a big Swede mechanic named Olson--was knocked cold as if by a nasty jolt of electricity.
Only the rhythmic sway of Polter's breathing and an occasionaljolt as he shifted his position.
Within an hour of Boston an abrupt joltthrew the passengers forward in their seats.
With a mental jolt his thoughts came back to the present, to the bare, commonplace ugliness of Wallater's Buildings.
With a mental jolt Sara recollected the fact of her approaching marriage.
Had to cut it--they might shoot a jolt through that band.
But the sudden jolt of his great weight was more than his muscles could withstand.
Had he needed evidence it came forthwith, for, with a rush, at a headlong gallop, a horseman dashed from amid the bushes and drew up with a jolt almost on top of him.
He, too, reined up with a jolt and leaped out of the saddle.
Spake win Ye're spoke ter and be civil, Or I'll jolt the teeth troo your hat!
And he picked Tsing Hi up with one hand and set him down again with as big a jolt as such a fag-end of humanity could expect to produce.
If I give the sieve a jolt then the water is driven to the other side, and in a moment it has all escaped.
And her looking at moonlight hangings that way seemed to give him such a jolt he stopped talking and give a kind of a gasp.
It give us a first-class jolt to find all the girls so quiet-looking; and they being that way braced up the whole crowd to be like a dancing-party back East.
It seemed really to jolt 'em when they begun to find out what a live man with his back up could do with a gun!
Each jolt not only makes the fine parts pass through the meshes, but changes the relative position of those which remain on the wires, bringing the purer and heavier pieces eventually to the bottom.
Hartz, for that part of the preceding apparatus which causes the jolt of the piece o u against the table d b c u.
A good joltuh brandy 'll sometimes cure a bad case uh colic," he remarked.
At night no lights were allowed and one had to be especially careful not to jolthis passengers.
God, how the fellow groans-- And you'd give your heart to ease the jolt Of the ambulance over the stones.
Gamine thrust the sword into my hand, and I felt a sudden stinging shock, like electric current, jolt my whole body.
It was the agonized whinny of my horse, and the jolt of my body righting itself automatically from the plunging animal beneath me, that made me realize we had ridden straight on a chevaux-de-frise.
With a jolt the two boys came to the end of their sudden journey.
Before any one could answer him, the blackness gave way to a glare of light, and the two boys, with Dirola and the men, brought up suddenly with a jolt on the floor of a big ice cavern.
And a good jolt of bromo, if you've got it--and a towel or two.
If I say that I haven't had anything to do, even by implication, with this jolt you've just been given, will you believe me?
After I'd got my battle-word from Patricia, I had a jolt that was worse than the other.
Likely as not the letter gave him a jolt at first.
Say, won't he get a jolt when he comes out of the daze and finds himself strapped to a chair?
I was busy the day Miss Hardwick called me up, and I got a little jolt when she told me her name.
The newsboys' cries had given him a jolt that left him a little dazed and caused his mind to turn to trivial things.
A jolt broke the axle-tree, just as it was going past.
The tortures of the poor little creatures, hanging thus by their middles, under a burning sun, and shaken up by every jolt the machine gave as it turned, may be imagined.
