22 Verbs to Use for the Word jolt

Recognition of what the high white apparition was had given him a queer jolt, stirring unsuspected things in imagination and in memory.

When you crossed the station platform in front of us he got a jolt.

"You've needed a few of them Jolts ever since you had your Hand read by the Gypsy and started to read that Bertha Clay Book.

Toby at one time managed to cling to the other's back for a brief moment, but was dislodged by a clever fling that sent him crashing against a tree, and made him grunt like a hog that receives a jolt.

No means to get people to invest in War Bonds can be seriously objected to; but I must confess that when, on a railway station hoarding, I caught sight of a poster representing WHISTLER'S famous portrait of his mother, with the words, "Old Age is Coming," printed across it, beneath an appeal to the public to be prudent about the future by buying Government stock now, I experienced a jolt.

Trot over to the bar an' git me a jolt of red-eye.

"Lie down when you've had enough," jeered Treadwell, as he landed a jolt on one of the youngster's shoulders and sent him reeling slightly.

As his pony slouched down the slope, picking its way dexterously among the rocks, the rider met each jolt on the way with an easy swing of his shoulders, riding "straight up," just enough of his weight falling into his stirrups to break the jar on the back of the mustang.

I shall not mind the jolts.

As it was rather dark, on account of the shade of the trees, the driver did not observe this jolt, and he was just beginning to put his horses to the trot, as they were leaving the bridge, when the forward wheels struck down heavily into the hollow, giving the front of the coach a sudden pitch forward and downward.

No man who has felt that first, overpowering jolt of a striking salmon can question the rapture of that first moment.

This legislation has provided springs to reduce the jolt of the change from a higher to a lower level of prices.

To his delight, Mrs. Jimmie received, three days later, a letter from the astonished proprietor, which showed in every line of it the jolt that my letter must have been to his stolid British nerveless system.

Self-conceit is a great source of happiness, a buffer that softens all the jolts of life.

If they can but muzzle the flanks of the bell-mare once in twenty-four hours, often stopping a jolt from the heels of this temperamental monsterthe mules appear morally refreshed for any fate.

I suppose," she speculated philosophically, "I suppose any great jolt that shakes you up a lot, shakes things into different proportions.

But, as he was fat and round as an elephant, and started off at a brisk pace, and we were well protected from the rain, it was not so bad after all, barring the jolts and jarred vertebræ.

Ef Smith Westcott kep' a shovin' ahead on his present trail, he'd fetch up kinder suddent all to wunst, weth a jolt.

And I had ordered a hammock to be fixed, by silken ropes, from the four corners at the top, to break the jolts when a servant carried me before him on horseback, as I sometimes desired; and would often sleep in my hammock while we were upon the road.

I" But at that instant there came to him a great jolt and a shock; and Ford found himself tumbled all in a heap, on the seat where his feet had been.

" Accordingly, the carriage was brought out, and Madam Conway carefully lifted in; but ere fifty rods were passed the coachman was ordered to drive back, as she could not endure the jolt.

Oliver felt a jolt of electricity, remembering.

22 Verbs to Use for the Word  jolt