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jumpy
1. I'd been jumpy at first, not daring to believe it could actually happen
2. I realised fairly quickly that she is jumpy about seeing Stephen with their disagreement unresolved and this house does looks a little imposing … I know I was surprised when Stephen bought it originally, thought it above our touch
3. What’s even more interesting is that the rather jumpy young man we just met is brother to the woman in charge of organising transport for the Guild
4. ‘He’s the younger of the two men who’ll be waiting for us, isn’t he?’ JJ asked, returning with her tea - of the two of them, he was the more jumpy
5. He was always a little jumpy around her and she didn’t know why
6. “I’m sorry I was jumpy the other day, how secure is this room?”
7. A panic filtered through my veins, I felt jumpy and could not simply sit in the flat waiting for Boyd – I had to do something
8. He was all jumpy
9. The third day, you are still kind of jumpy, but not as much as
10. Many of our soldiers are young and jumpy, so it’s best that they have at least a full minute’s warning before someone Translocates into their vicinity
11. He was sharper, more alert, jumpy even and full of confidence
12. Lewis laughs; “You sure are jumpy, that will be Sharon
13. Joey moved with a jumpy motion
14. “I said hold it!” But his finger wasn’t on the trigger, not wanting to risk getting jumpy and pulling
15. He was quite confused as to why she was so jumpy
16. The dragon then walked to her in a jumpy gait, a pair of small wings visible on its back
17. We’re all a bit jumpy, because we’re practically defenceless without
18. “But he’s obviously a bit jumpy, and has doubled the guard on Chancellor Avenue, where his official residence is
19. “The Russians are a bit jumpy at present, what with closing our British Council offices, and now starting to fly their bombers through the Iceland/Faroes gap again
20. “The police are jumpy lately
21. “Maybe they’re scared we’ll be too jumpy and would shoot at everything that moved
22. She got jumpy with my questions
23. “You got to lay off the rock buddy, Cocaine leaves you jumpy,” responded the second thug
24. But not anymore!” She was already anxious and jumpy
25. The enemy must be jumpy
26. But at that moment, with me being nervy, she seemed more nervous and jumpy
27. Also because he's getting a bit jumpy and would like to have something mindless to do with his hands
28. She was so jumpy that she messed up the simple
29. He was getting jumpy
30. It is just that he has been acting a bit jumpy lately and our psychological behavior counselor has brought this to my attention
31. When nothing materialised, “Always jumpy,” the Fife said, heading off when
32. “You always so jumpy?” he asked, and she caught sight of some of the
33. “I'm not jumpy,” she said to him
34. your speech to another, your presentation will appear jumpy at best or disorganised at worst
35. Celeste so often seemed jumpy and preoccupied, startled by the existence of her children when they suddenly ran at her
36. He’d always been jumpy, but now, when I got up in the middle of the night, I’d stop and say his name before I got back into bed
37. The knowledge of danger to come, which made most men jumpy, actually soothed him
38. She was just getting jumpy
39. The crew was jumpy, coursing with adrenaline
40. Frightened by the bombing, the guards were increasingly jumpy and angry
41. Lady was back, reeking of tobacco smoke and still just as jumpy
42. Bullock said, “I’m just jumpy
43. He was paler, thinner, pouchy under the eyes, drooping in, the corners of his mouth, and he showed the scars of a boil on the side of his chin; his voice seemed flatter and his movements alternately listless and jumpy; he looked down-at-heel, too, with clothes and hair, which formerly had been happily negligent now unkempt; worst of all there was a wariness in his eye which I had surprised there at Easter, and which now seemed habitual to him
44. I am also trading larger share size, and I am not jumpy
45. Who could blame you for getting a little jumpy, with what’s going on? I said to myself
46. The first jumpy tape image was a wide traveling shot flashing through a grotesquely impoverished village, Sirsa
47. I was so jumpy I couldn’t keep my hands still, or my mind on the indescribable moment
48. There were only thirty seconds worth of film, and fairly jumpy, as if Roy had animated his clay bust in only a few hours instead of the many days it usually took to position a creature, take its picture, reposition it, and snap another frame, one at a time
49. 'Why are you so jumpy about two boys?'
50. “You’re jus’ jumpy,” the wizened man said
