We felt the strong suction under our keel, and staggered under the jerk of the ship's cable as she swung toward the beach.

One jerk at the visor of his cap brought it down over his eyes and covered his face with shadow; a single shrug bunched the ragged coat high around his shoulders, and the shoulders themselves he allowed to drop forward.

Some more!" pleads the aged MCLAUGHLIN, when the Jamaican nervine is abruptly jerked from his lips.

Already one can seem to see him, poor, innocent beast, miserable in the memories of an army of beginners, his mouth so accustomed to being jerked in every direction, without anything in particular being meant by it, that neither Arabia nor Mexico can furnish a bit which would surprise him, or startle his four legs from their propriety.

The words were jerked out of him by the galloping horse.

It was, of course The sudden snapping of a twig in the underbrush brought his mind back with a jerk to their present plight.

The jerking of her breath stopped then; in fact, it was as if both their breathing had let down with the oneness of a clock stopped.

He jerked on the bridle with all the strength of his iron muscle; jerked himself up on the road and the horse over into the gorge.

We say 'anchor,' or 'let go the anchor,' or 'dropped the anchor,' or some such reasonable expression, and not 'cast anchor,' as if a bit of iron, weighing two or three tons, is to be jerked about like a stone big enough to kill a bird with.

Rogers was sitting crouched forward in his chair, his hands over his eyes, and I could feel him jerk with nervousness as I touched him on the shoulder.

" The baffled adventurer was jerked into a chair, from which he continued to eye Andy savagely.

His arms, which hung down, jerked like the arms of a doll.

Half-way down, the intelligent animal stopped with another jerk for which the doctor was equally ill-prepared.

" Then I was jerked off my feet, and the next I knew I was lying on my back, very wet, on the beach; the day was breaking, and the men, quite sober, were talking vehemently.

As the rough rope grated against Gaspar's throat, he shrieked and jerked against the rope end that bound his hands.

To help along our train two more little engines were added, but even with four of them to draw and to shove their load was now so heavy that we were jerked along with sensations as though we were having a jaw tooth pulled every few seconds.

At the instant that her free hand clutched at the rope it tightened with a jerk as the cow pony at the other end, feeling the strain and knowing his business, braced his legs and swayed backward.

The car jerked beneath our unsteady feet and heeled over, and I had the sensation of being in an elevator that has started downward suddenly, and at an angle to boot.

Treatise on Painting, i. 128, n. 2. TRECOTHICK, Alderman, account of him, iii. 76, n. 2; his English, iii. 76, 201; Lord Mayor, iii. 459. TREE, given a jerk by Divines, iv.

Hour after hour we were jerked over the ground.

There was a significant little jerking up of the revolver.

Something jerked through his body as though a whip had been flicked across his back.

" Mr. Batch wiped his forearm across his brow, his voice jerking between the squeak of nails extracted from wood.

At one time it looked as if he meant to fling himself upon "the intruder," for his hand continually jerked towards the long hunting knife in his belt.

The latch of the west door jerked under Rowcliffe's hand with a loud clashing.