He spoke jerkily, as stout men do when they ride, and when he had laughed his good-natured, half-cynical laugh, he closed his lips beneath a huge gray mustache.

After a little, while no one paid any attention to him, he began a slow withdrawal, moving jerkily step by step, his dragging heels making long furrows in the snow.

" "Old Heck's got a letter," Skinny said, jerkily; "maybe's it's bad news an' he ought to have it quick," as the Ramblin' Kid reached for a yellow envelope held in the outstretched hand.

she laughed jerkily, with a little catch in her throat.

He told this all panting, briefly, jerkily, and interrupted at every moment with this ejaculation, "And to think that they have no arms, and to think that I have no gun!" As he finished we heard from the barricade a shout of "Attention!"

Once more he opened the window to the roar of London's life; and so standing, with his back to Crowther, he spoke again jerkily, with obvious effort.

But I had seen no Woman; and the passage showed empty, as he shone the beam of his light jerkily to and fro; but chiefly in the direction of the doorway of my mother's room.

"I'm right so far, am I not, Jenkins?" Jenkins bobbed his head jerkily.

"I'll steer; then we can go ahead," said the boy jerkily.

She and Ted Burton were married so, but that was different," Katherine answered jerkily.

She heard her name called from the wharf and turned her face backward, as the light craft began to move jerkily away.

One woman kept moaning jerkily: "Wisht I was deaddown in my grave.

"Yes, I know you warned me," he said rather jerkily.

He looked down at his clenched hands, and at length jerkily, laboriously, he spoke, giving difficult and bitter utterance to the trouble that gnawed at his heart.

And nowbecause of a damnable lie" Something seemed to rise in his throat, he paused, struggling with himself, finally went on jerkily, with difficulty.

Then: "Yes, you've a perfect right to know," he said, speaking jerkily, his head bent.

The words came jerkily, as if wrung from him by main force.

"I'd better eat, I suppose," she said jerkily.

Down the broad driveway Sharon had piloted the monster, and through the wide gate, though in a sudden shuddering wonder if it were really wide enough for his mount; then he had driven acceptably if jerkily along back streets for an exciting hour.

His hands went jerkily to his smooth chin, clutching it.

Nervously, almost jerkily, Landor filled the brier bowl and pressed the brown flakes tight with his little finger.

So he halted, bowed jerkily, clapped the hat on his head and the cigar into his mouth, and hastily disappeared.

"They had me overtwice," said Tredgold, jerkily; "they tore the clothes from my back.

Above the writhing smoke, now stained pink in the sunset light, a flag crept jerkily up the halyards of a tall flag-staff, higher, higher, until it caught the evening wind aloft and floated lazily out.

"I've beenhorrible to you, Sylvia," he said, speaking rather jerkily.