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jerkily
1. She could see him now … jerkily, returning to his seat at the table … and then, he’d just sort of imploded mentally, as though Andy’s defection was the terminal straw in the train of disasters which comprised this ill-fated project
2. Glen blinked rapidly, and then jerkily looked at this sister in the bed at his elbow
3. Since leaving the temporary burrow Brock had begun talking to himself, answering questions nobody had asked, mumbling jerkily as though talking to another badger
4. Sim began to respond again, jerkily, his short pauses and hesitation made it seem like it was partially against his will
5. had also detected the faint scraping, his gun-arm jerkily starting
6. balcony, groaning as it jerkily climbed the stairs
7. Both hands closed and unclosed jerkily
8. But now the muscular arm was brushed aside like straw and the Irakzai moved toward the stair, treading jerkily and mechanically
9. Valerius laughed as he always laughed at the prospect of the ruin of either friend or foe, and drew a restless hand jerkily through his unruly yellow locks
10. to his chest and turned his head jerkily away
11. The alcohol had a nice cooling effect on his face, but when it burnt on his bruises he jerkily turned his head away from Hanna, hissingly swearing to himself
12. The cabin inched up as they jerkily made their way up the mountain
13. She nodded jerkily, “And yet we still have to try don’t we
14. He nodded jerkily and like a veil his features became stoically shielded and the pulsing intensity of his demeanor calmed down
15. I nodded jerkily, forgetting that there was no way he could see such an answer
16. Raskolnikov, white as a handkerchief, had answered sharply, jerkily, without dropping his black feverish eyes before Ilya Petrovitch's stare
17. (Myles Crawford strides out jerkily, a quill between his teeth
18. Pedrito elevated his hand jerkily to help the idea of pinnacle, of fame
19. She spoke more and more jerkily
20. Evidently possessed by some idea, he stood over those who were singing, and solemnly and jerkily flourished above their heads his white arm with the sleeve turned up to the elbow, trying unnaturally to spread out his dirty fingers
21. ‘You!’ He stood up jerkily, eyes wild
22. “_You!_’ He stood up jerkily, eyes wild
23. They hesitated jerkily, trying to get in step, and having established the swinging rhythm, moved slowly through the slush toward the platform
24. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a shapeless pulp
25. Anyhow I presently dreamed that the island had moved again—not floatingly as before, but suddenly, jerkily, as though something enormously powerful had heaved it up from its bed just once and let it down
26. He seemed rather thoughtful and absent-minded, spoke jerkily and ungrammatically, transposing words in rather a strange way, and getting muddled if he attempted a sentence of any length
27. "In the N—— office," I answered jerkily, with my eyes on my plate
