1757 examples of jerk in sentences

" I drew my horse in with a jerk, and catching Sam's by the bridle, pulled it to me.

In his fingers Hiawatha Felt the loose line jerk and tighten; As he drew it in, it tugged so That the birch canoe stood endwise, Like a birch log in the water, With the squirrel, Adjidaumo, Perched and frisking on the summit.

He looked at her with his sinister smile and a little upward jerk of the head.

Steve did so well that he, too, by a little jerk displaced the delicately arranged "trigger" as Obed called the stake, and caused the barrel to pitch furiously down the steep slope.

"That is the wrong one," she said gravely, and handed it back to Marcos, who took it with a little jerk of the head as of annoyance at his own stupidity.

Don't jerk the bit, fer his mouth's tender an' it makes him balky.

Then he put on a ragged overcoat, and a hat which he drew down over his eyes with a furtive jerk of his yellow fingers.

Suddenly there came a still sharper jerk, and the cable split.

He gave Luke a violent jerk backwards, throwing him prostrate in the sawdust.

Just as Big Bob was about to pounce upon the toothsome spoil, Andy gave it a jerk.

Andy gave it a whirling jerk.

Why, you young thief" "Hold on," interrupted Andy, resisting the savage jerk of his captor.

Andy glanced from the windows of the coach they entered as the train started up with a jerk.

" "Peterday," said the Sergeant removing his gaze from the wall with a jerk, "on the twenty-fifth instant we shall bewithout a roof to cover us, andall my doing.

from Jane did not prevent a sudden jerk of her elbow upsetting her steaming cup of coffee right over the pictured face.

Danbury had too many friends for that, however, and it really looked as if the poor chap was going to the bad, when a very curious thing happened which pulled him up with such a sudden jerk that he never put his hand upon the neck of a whisky bottle again.

Forward flew Anerley towards the creature's neck, then violently backwards, clawing madly at anything which might save him, and then, with a jerk which nearly snapped his loins, he was thrown forward again.

Avery's heart gave a great jerk.

"If you keep me standing like this much longer," I managed to jerk out, "I shall most certainly faint.

Then he hitched himself around, with his hand on the hip of his old horse, swaying violently with the jerk of the gait.

Now the window was raised to its full height, and Sinclair prepared for the command which would jerk Cartwright's hands above his head and make him turn slowly to look into the mouth of the gun.

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.

He saw a gun jerk high for a snap shot, and, swerving as he leaped, he drove out with all his weight behind his fist.

When the linchpin comes out on his side, there'll be a jerk, I tell you!

With an impudent jerk of the head he grumbles out: "I don't want any of your kings!"

1757 examples of  jerk  in sentences