187 collocations for jerks

"You wasn't expecting me, Jimmie?" He jerked up his head, not meeting her glance.

He jerked his thumb toward the beach.

Mac jerked his hand towards the camp.

"Oh!" groaned the general, and jerking his rein, until his horse reared in the air, his chin fell on his chest, and he began to sink from the saddle.

"What was that the old señor was telling me about these beasts? Didn't he say they jerked their tail to and fro like a pendulum, and made a queer noise just before they jumped?

The scarlet coat was a center of barrel hoops, bushes, staves, and wildly jerking arms and legs.

Lord 'a mercy, he's running away!" shrieked Aunt Kipp, or tried to shriek, for the bouncing and bumping jerked the words out of her mouth with ludicrous incoherency.

Now you get yours!" He jerked up his rifle.

"I attempted to stir him out and he jerked the knife at me.

I can feel it bind when I try to jerk out the gun fast.

No doubt he fought, for the split part of a second, with a wild temptation to jerk that door open and leap into the safety of the hall.

Jim Pink Staggs jerked off his fur cap, made a gesture, contorted his long, black face into a caricature of fright, and came loping across the street, looking back over his shoulder, mimicking a run for life His mummery set his audience howling.

The driver jerked the horse aside, and leapt from his seat, the usual crowd, which seems to spring instantaneously from the very stones, collected and surged round, the usual policeman forced his way through, and Ida was picked up and carried to the pavement.

He climbed back over me, grasped the helm and jerked a lever.

" Mac jerked his set face, fire-reddened, towards the fossil-finder; and he, without waiting for more, simply opened the door, and heavily footed it back to the Big Cabin.

He jerked the man to his feet, planted two hard blows on his chin, and as the man reeled forward clipped him once more.

The wind swept around the corner, jerking her hat, and her hand flew up to it.

" And, staying to light her little black pipe, she jerked together the strings of her great scarlet hood, wrapped her cloak round her like a sentinel at muster, and went puffing down the hill like a steamboat.

On the instant she jerked her pony round, whirled her quirt cross-handed, and tore down the back-trail at full gallop.

He jerked his loosely-jointed body over to the sick man, lifted the seal-oil lamp with his shaky old hands, and looked at the patient long and steadily.

For reply, the stranger began to skip among his cohorts, jerking out his white legs like a dancing marionette.

But he jerked my hand off his sleeve.

She practiced back and forth in her room that exaggerated swagger, jerked her sombrero rakishly over one eye, cocked up her cartridge belt at one side, and swung down the stairs.

Stand as upright as you can, your arms against your side, the forearm at right angles, as before, and jerk your elbows downward four times.

I am going to jerk the stems off of berries, chop the pits out of cherries, and skin peaches.

187 collocations for  jerks