United States or Iran ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He said it was badly written jerky, short sentences he'd have to re-write it. Well I wouldn't let him do that, and he wouldn't have it as it stood." "But it's beautiful alive and real. What more does he want?" "The stamp of his personality." "Oh, he'd stamp on it all right." "I'm glad you like it." "Like it. Don't you?" Ralph said he thought he'd liked it when he wrote it, but now he didn't know.
He broke into a jerky gallop, attended by his self-appointed associates; and, considering that the young man was so stout, that the messenger boy considered it unprofessional to hurry, that the shop girl had doubts as to whether sprinting was quite ladylike, and that the two Bohemians were moving at a quicker gait than a shuffle for the first occasion in eleven years, the cavalcade made good time.
When Lingard spoke after a time it was in jerky sentences. "I didn't stop to think. I had been hurt. I didn't think of you people as ladies and gentlemen. I thought of you as people whose lives I held in my hand. How was it possible to forget you in my trouble? It is your face that I brought back with me on board my brig. I don't know why. I didn't look at you more than at anybody else.
In the other two scenes, the composition is jerky and insignificant, but the individual figures are characteristic, especially the nude écorché-like old saint. They represent visions which appear in the air to S. Augustine, who sits below under a loggia.
Sulpice and was related to the cure of the parish. He was large and at the same time pale, a thing which always displeases me and which is, in fact, unpleasant; it impresses me as a sort of diseased healthfulness. Moreover, he had the slow yet jerky way of speaking that characterizes the pedant.
Jan was thrown so heavily against the side of the boat that he lay gasping for breath, then he dragged himself to his feet. Swaying with the jerky motion, but managing to brace himself, he peered through the inky darkness toward the steps leading to the deck. Again he heard the hurried feet, the loud voices of men, and this time there were cries of women and children, too.
It's quite an art to turn a barrel organ. If you don't keep going perfectly even it makes the tune jerky. Oh! I know a bit about barrel organs now. They smashed it all to pieces. Oh yes! All to pieces. I spoke to the police. I said, 'Aren't you going to protect these ladies' property? But they didn't lift a finger." "And weren't you arrested?" "Me!" shrieked Miss Ingate. "Me arrested!"
How ill he looked how ill! Her heart sank. "Dear Otto, how are you? You don't seem so well to-day." "I've been working myself to death. It won't come right this beastly andante. It's too jerky it wants liaison. And I can't hear it I can't hear it! that's the devilish part of it."
They swayed, and turned, and glided; they made strange abrupt movements in accordance with the jerky tune; they halted at the end of a walk to make little steps forward and back; then they began to bounce and sway together in a motion that Lane instantly recognized as a toddle.
Frank was watching him closely, and noticed that he no longer proceeded about his work deliberately, but with a hurried and jerky action, as if he felt his strength failing him. Frank pulled off his coat and waistcoat, and handed them to the cripple, kicked off his boots, and stood in readiness to plunge in.
Word Of The Day