23 collocations for jolts

And they needed all their strength to drag that heavily-laden wagon over the half-broken road, where so many obstacles stuck up to jolt the poor driver until he almost lost his grip on the seat, though the boys had been able to avoid most of these because they could steer aside with the single line of wheels.

Suddenly the car gave a lurch and jolted the bottle of phosphorus off its shelf.

" I looked out upon the reef where the waves gleamed faintly, upon the scintillating nearer waters of the lagoon, and upon us, barefooted, and clothed but for decency, and I had to jolt my brain to do justice to the furred and booted Eskimo in his igloo of ice.

As for the slithery noise, I am pretty sure that one of the tripod legs of my camera must have slipped a few inches: if it did so, it may easily have jolted the lens cap off the baseboard, which would account for that queer little tap which I heard directly after.

They went off fast, jolting the carts by their clumsy trot, but Kit knew the extra horse would be needed when they returned.

THE MANAGER The wagon to the jingling of the harness rattles off, jolting out ditties.

So it will not jolt thy fat too much, onward, say I." At this the two friars said nothing, but they glared again on Little John with baleful looks; then, without another word, they clucked to their horses, and both broke into a canter.

I would not recommend, however, nor even tolerate, for one moment, the absurd practice of jolting, so common with a few ignorant nurses and, mothers, as if they could jolt down the food in the stomach with just as much safety as they can shake down the contents of a farmer's bag of produce.

They jolted and swayed and slid over the rough, wet road, the gunners clinging fiercely to the handrails, the drivers picking a way as best they could over bowlders and between ruts.

Letty had fallen asleep; her dark lashes rested quietly on her cheeks, but the car jolted her head cruelly, and Ailsa gently drew it to her own shoulder and put one arm around her.

Field and staff passed headed by the colonel; behind jolted two howitzers; behind them glittered the sabre-bayonets of the engineers; then, filling the roadway from sidewalk to sidewalk the perfect ranks of the infantry swept by under burnished bayonets.

When they walked fast he said they jolted 'im, and when they walked slow 'e asked 'em whether they'd gone to sleep or wot.

Suddenly Dave swung his right in on the point of Pen's chin with a force that jolted the larger midshipman.

And now we began the descent, which was actually more perilous than the ascent, but we made light of it, being very much enlivened by the high mountain air and the relief from dread uncertainty, shouting out our reflections one to another as we jolted down the rugged path.

During the long hours of jolting over branch railroads back to remote settlements, or waiting at cheerless junctions for delayed trains, or gaily eating impossible meals at extraordinary country hotels, the ruddy, vigorous father, now growing both gray and stout, and the tall, slender, darkly handsome girl of fifteen, were cultivating more things than history and mathematics and English literature.

Did you ever see such an old poke as we have, and such a bouncy, jolting rattletrap of a carriage?

He will go round everywhere, even on jolting straw-rides; his wound is nearly healed, however.

When it ended in his victory I found that I had jolted my rifle out of its saddle sheath.

It jarred and then swung back a few inches as if the shock had jolted the spring.

But we are no sooner in it, jolting up its main track, than we understand the grimness of what it holds.

Swaying and jolting its way upward and outward into the wilder country, the coach at last had so far plunged into the night that they were almost within touch of the valley in which lay the Dunwody lands.

I have travelled in all waysby seasby landon footon horsebackin a carriagein a shipin a palanquinin a muff; but the motion of the camel I never could bear, it so jolted my poor old bones, and discomposed my whole body.

Within a month he jolted the medical world by announcing that smallpox patients treated under red light would recover readily and without disfigurement.

23 collocations for  jolts